Over the last few months I’ve sold a fair number of swords or knives. Today though I decided it was time for a tribute blade. I grabbed a couple tripods and cameras before taking them down to the smith. This wasn’t one that was going to end up on my tiktok or yutube channel, this was for the guys.

Given that this was a blade for the guys I served with it wasnt going to be a katana. I’d decided on a cavalry sword. There weren’t many swords historically used in the US military, we were largely too young. But a cav sword seemed fitting. I had to do some research into this one. While some of the techniques I knew would carry over no samurai had ever made a US cav sword. The sheath I had custom ordered so I had to make sure that the blade would be exact in its dimensions to fit. To make that work I had created a pattern I could judge against to make sure angle of curve and other measurements were right.