I never really liked the type, but that looks like a really nice sword. You definitely have a finely developed sense of propotion, lacking in many sword-makers. How does the sword handle with the moderate grip length and light (lookin?) pommel? I am working on a project with a Hanwei mercenary blade right now, so I find your project particularly interesting. Did you do any work on the blade, or just hilt the existing blade? Was the blade reasonably straight? I am asking because the Hanwei mercenary and Hanwei-tinker blades I got for my projects were atrocious, with a lot of major bends, extremely sloppy, wavy grinding, and crooked fullers. I just looked at it as a challenge. Others have reported much better quality in Hanwei blades, so I may have just been lucky enough to get 2 lemons at once.

Hi Scott

I found this blade to be of very high quality but I was able to drive to KOA and pick the blade I wanted , I did not do any work on the blade just gave it a light sanding to clean up the finish . This sword is light and very fast may be a little too fast when used with two hands.The pommel is 2 3/8'' I do regret that I did not weigh the pommel before I put it on the sword . I by no means want to compare this sword to the Albion kern but the specs are similar .I have another Hanwei/Tinker blade XII type and have to say this blade is 10 / 10 for quality when I bought the XII I asked to see there Albion Knight ,apart from the high quality finish on the knight blade the H/T blade looks every bit as good .So I hope this helps I do highly recommend these blades for projects.

In the publication Tony Willis . A Two Handed Gaelic Irish Sword of the Sixteenth Century was adduce the sword's sizes from the Ulster Museum: The blade is broken but the sword complete. It is just under 44 inches in total length (112cm) with a blade 35 inches long (89.5 cm). The sword is just under 5 inches shorter than the sword in Fig 1 (12.5cm) and the guard is also shorter at 8 inches tip to tip (21 cm) compared to 11 (28.5 cm). The blade has no ricasso and is just under 2 inches wide (5 cm) at the hilt.

Hello, Hadrian!
Do you know, will be the publications of this sword?

I am not sure what you mean... I believe information has been published on each of the swords I discussed above. Which one were you interested in? I believe there is some information here: http://www.jstor.org/pss/25506140 but I don't have time at the moment to log in and check. Are you affiliated with any school, library, publisher, etc. that will let you log in to JSTOR?
I will need to dig around through my library to find other publications of the two.
Cheers