All About Pocket Knives

Anyone Collect swords?

You just need to find two more musketeers!

I don't know about "collecting" swords, but I do love swords. I grew up reading fantasy novels (as well as pretty much every other book I could get my hands on!), and have desired to own a real sword for most of my life.
I have a broadsword with a broken handle that I have not gotten around to repairing yet, but it is a stainless steel wall-hanger, only for looks.
This replica katana is a recent purchase. It is 9260 spring steel, monoforged (not folded steel), but is clay hardened with a beautiful flame-patterned hamon. I call it a "replica", as it is new and was not made in Japan, but it is sharp and dangerous!
I do hope to gather a few more swords over time!

Reverand wrote: ↑Thu Jun 05, 2025 10:31 am I don't know about "collecting" swords, but I do love swords. I grew up reading fantasy novels (as well as pretty much every other book I could get my hands on!), and have desired to own a real sword for most of my life.

Very nice! ... I have a few katanas of varying degrees of quality; it is a sword that is hard not to love......

Well it's about time somebody brought out the BIG knives! Nice looking pices guys - all of them. Love that Knight's Templar blade. Family heirloom?
Swords are my first love, followed by bayonets when I cannot not afford a sword...followed by knives when I cannot afford a bayonet. And typically these days, when I can afford a sword, I see how many knives I can buy with the same money. Ain't that the way?

I have 11 swords to date - both historical and modern. The best photos so far are of these two:

1811 French Briquet Ames M1861 Naval Cutless - decommissioned

Very old sword brought back from Japan by my father.

Oh very nice!!! Have you ever removed the grip to examine the tang?

Supposedly my father had it done while still in Japan and it was 200 years old. Who knows, stories get exaggerated through the years. I did sell another one that was a common officers sword. This one was much different,

chickenman62 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 10:45 pm Very old sword brought back from Japan by my father.

Wow! A very awesome memento from your father.


This Katana is most likely not Japanese, but still fairly well made as a modern piece.

doglegg wrote: ↑Thu Jun 05, 2025 3:04 am You just need to find two more musketeers!

D.L. ...I have at least 5 of these swords... so, there is plenty of room for more musketeers! I am hoping i might could recruit, this here young lady, she seems to already have experience as one.....

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Wed Jun 11, 2025 11:21 pm

doglegg wrote: ↑Thu Jun 05, 2025 3:04 am You just need to find two more musketeers!

D.L. ...I have at least 5 of these swords... so, there is plenty of room for more musketeers! I am hoping i might could recruit, this here young lady, she seems to already have experience as one.....

Maybe.

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Wed Jun 11, 2025 11:21 pm

doglegg wrote: ↑Thu Jun 05, 2025 3:04 am You just need to find two more musketeers!

D.L. ...I have at least 5 of these swords... so, there is plenty of room for more musketeers! I am hoping i might could recruit, this here young lady, she seems to already have experience as one.....

I think I have about 50 swords and probably that many sword bayonets as well. Ranging from a late 1700s cutlass, to modern swords, with a concentration in naval cutlasses and US sabers and swords.

Unfortunately, I can't show them as I have not been able to post up pictures for 2 years now for some reason.

Can't see the gallery, can't find the gallery.

ZZ...50 swords? Oh in my dreams! And now I read no pics...whaaaat? I too have a handful of sword bayonets....man I would love to stare & compare and swap stories with you on these. I didn't post any of mine here thinking it might go over the top a little, but since you brought it up....just give me time.

I have read through some other disscussions about posting to the gallery - I don't seem to have that feature either, not that I can find anyway. I am assuming it's a feature that went away before I joined earlier this year. But not being able to post any pic? That constitutes a crisis. You may want to engage Bryan and nicely emplore him to assist in troubleshooting this issue. Your inability to post critial photos of historic signicance is hindering the progress of this thread!

Thanks for the tease -

Here is another Katan I just pulled out from storage. It is a Paul Chen (as I recall) and very well made for a modern piece. I am particularly found of the hamon...

Some more photos of ones from the "pile" .....

An Ulfberht* Viking sword (reproduction) and two copies of the flamberge (also floberge, froberge, and other variations) medieval sword. Aswell as a *Crusader" type sword made by Iberia.


*The Ulfberht swords are a group of about 170 medieval swords found primarily in Northern Europe, dated to the 9th to 11th centuries, with blades inlaid with the inscription +VLFBERH+T or +VLFBERHT+. The word "Ulfberht" is a Frankish personal name, possibly indicating the origin of the blades.