This sword is the longest I have ever made, measuring 45 inches in total length with a handle length of 10 inches and a blade length of 35 inches. The forging process took over a week, utilizing hand ...

The Forge turns raw ore into weapons — if you know how to crank the bellows, slam the hammer, and keep your eyes on the mold. The Long Sword is one of the earliest Great Swords you can craft. It’s ...

Awestruck by the sight of the sharp glint of a royal sword in his early 20s, Lee Sang-seon, 57, has since crafted traditional Korean swords for decades. The sword that left a strong impression on him ...

As of this writing, 2017 has yet to degenerate into a dystopian hellscape. Still, there’s a lot of year left, so it’s not a bad idea to stock up on emergency supplies and plentiful rations of food and ...

For millennia swords have held deep cultural significance in both Asia and Europe. In this episode of Crossing Cultures, we head to Toledo in Spain and Longquan in China to meet the swordsmiths still ...

If you think about it, a crowbar already comes vaguely sword-shaped (or as sword-shaped as any long metal tool can be). You just need to hammer down the curved end of the crowbar to create a hilt and ...

If you’re a sword lover, especially of the elegant, delicately curved "nihonto" (literally: “Japanese sword”), then this one’s for you. A new 60-minute film titled "Japanese Swords ~The World of ...

College says it has been overwhelmed by applications after introducing a one-year course in traditional skills We’ve had the TV shows, we’re getting the theme park and now the Viking invasion is ...