Du-Sith

Oakeshotte type XVIIIa Longsword

"I am called Du-Sith and you were better to have me with you than against you." - from the battle of Trai-Guinard, in Islay, Scotland 1598, credited to a faerie who helped sir James MacDonald named Du-Sith (dark elf)

This is a sword wich I've made as a study of some of the swords I was able to handle at the Victoria and Albert Museum In London England this spring thanks to Tod and Owen Bush. It is especially an attempt to put into practice some of the lessons about balance that I learned from master swordsmith Peter Johnsson of Sweden.
It's a very light fast sword, with a 50% distal taper. The grip is wenge and the pomel and guard are silicon bronze, with sterling silver 'genius cuculatus' inset in the pomel. it's meant to be a reflection of the 1500's through the shifting mirror of the Celtic otherworld.
Here are the stats:

weight - 1lbs14.6oz / 0.867 kg

OAL - 41" / 104.1cm
blade length - 32" / 81.2cm
hilt length - 9" / 22.8cm

blade thickness at guard - 3/16" / 4mm

blade thickness 5 cm from tip - 3/32" / 2mm

point of balance - 3 1/4" / 8.2cm from guard

blade node - 18 1/2" / 47cm from guard

grip node - 3 1/2" / 8.9cm in from guard, aproximately in the center of the grip.

forward pivot point - tip of blade

aft pivot point - 9 1/2" / 24.2cm from guard, right around the end of the fuller

The blade is 1084 steel.

Price - $6000 Cnd plus shipping