Don´t have any real swords, if you don´t count HI Tarwar as a sword, but when I buy one I´m sure gonna use it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

This looks like a sword, to me

I´m not collecting knives or swords, just buying new ones and testing them in the search of the perfect knife, if there is one. To find the perfect one I have to try them all, right? haha it´s a neverending search...

This actually brings up a good question. What is the precise definition of a "sword"? Are there certain dimensions, blade styles, handles that are necessary?

uuuuh... that´s a machete <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I bet the FFBM, especially after you convexed the blade, is pretty close to ideal. At least, I think that it would be, for me.

Been thinking about that too. It must be size. Is it to small it´s called a dagger even if it looks like a sword.

It´s a good question and I don´t know a good answer

I think a Coldsteel trailmaster with a 12" blade in INFI would be better. FBM blades are to wide,hard to carve with them

I am afraid that the dictionary doesn't provide much clarity, so we can define it to be almost any blade that we want:
1: a weapon (as a cutlass or rapier) with a long blade for cutting or thrusting that is often used as a symbol of honor or authority
2 a: an agency or instrument of destruction or combat b: the use of force <the pen is mightier than the sword — E. G. Bulwer-Lytton>
3: coercive power
4: something that resembles a sword

Me and my brother have talked about what is the perfect blade, and 12" long and narrow, like the trailmaster but 5-6mm thick with convex scandigrind would be really good. Only one way to find out, order a custom blade from Busse <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I wonder what the cost of a custom would be? 2-3x the cost of a standard model, maybe, or would it be more?

custom Busse? I´ve heard $100 per inch <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Don´t know if that´s for just the blade or with the handle. 12" blade and 6" handle