Swords

     I have chosen to make the first real post to be about swords. Why you ask, because of several different reasons: one they are the most popular/common form of melee weapons, and two they are still used today in many different ways. Now a big unanswered question I certainly have, and I noticed a few others have as well, and yet it still goes unanswered fully today. The question that is are swords just big knives, are knives the a so called pocket sword, or is it simply just neither are true? In other aspects are knives and swords one in the same?

     Both knives and swords have two main aspects a blade and a handle. However, the only real difference between the two comes in between with a guard. Swords tend to have a hand guard to help protect the yielder’s grip. Knives often not have a guard for their intent is for more “tool” like utilities rather than that of combat. Although this seems to differentiate the two it is not a deal breaker because there are swords out there with no guard and knives with. The fact of the matter is that different swords and knives differentiate so much from each other that one cannot fathom a common characteristic feature(without flaw) to classify the two separately. Some mistakenly argue that the size determines if it is a sword or a knife, but they both range is sizes. For example:  ButterflySwords are seemingly smaller than that of some knives, and a Machete which is a cleaver and are all considered to be knives can be bigger than some swords.

Here is a good place to go and see as well as purchase a bunch of different types of swords.