Making my first sword has been quite a journey! This sword is made of 1070 high carbon steel with a cast brass guard and ...

Restoration work revealed several decorative elements on the sword, such as a painted chrysanthemums on the guard plate and a metal carving of Daikoku, a Japanese god of luck, on the handle.

Measuring about 14.5 inches, the sword retains its handle, cross guard and about half of its original blade, according to Live Science’s Tom Metcalfe. Even so, the weapon is encrusted in rust ...

A stony-face Medusa gazes out from the sword’s guard and at the end of the mother-of-pearl handle, we meet the Nemean lion that Hercules killed in his first labor. On the back of the sword we ...