It is really important for all of us modern craftsmen to get our hands on the real deal. As well as learning to use them properly tbh. Especially swords & other weapons. One can't get those little details in how they balance, their construction etc without it & learning to use them helps understand why they made some of the choices in design.

Thanks for the tour, Phil. Always good to see your videos on KZfaq.

I could look at old swords all day long. Some nice pieces amongst those.

Thanks for sharing!

It's funny I go through fort Gratiot almost daily and have never thought that it was an actual fort at one time with real artifacts. Cool Information thanks

Wow! I found this very interesting

I think the "recurve" at 17:10 is just from being sharpened a lot. I've got a few old knives about like that. I could be wrong, of course.