General

• ✅ stainless steel for hilt and pommel
• ✅ push toward a forward-weighted blade . → light hilt
  • what blade?

Quillon Block

• ✅ thumb-side shaping: must be ramped on both sides
• ✅ low side must be rounded to have space for the fingertip

Quillons

• ✅ 28–30 cm total length (11.5inch)
• ✅ ❓ Weld point (where quillons meet the block) must sit far enough from the handle that it doesn't land where the fingers wrap the quillons. → 30mm from center OK??
• ✅❓ Cross section at the finger-wrap points: smoothed on the ~45° faces where the hand naturally contacts it, to avoid pinching/pain when the hand wraps around during a squeeze.?????????
  • rounded in the point of contact of the bars → better to chamfer? i don’t feel like it is

Crossing

function: cuphilt

• ✅ V shape to increase achievable hand position compared to a rounded cup.

REAR UP

function : obscure the high line (shoulder and head…)

• ✅ they should deflect toward the strong of the quillon, not let it travel out toward the weak

Finger rings

✅❌ Big? → 51mm between axis

FRONT UP

function : intercept and deflect the opposing blade as early as possible, like a foil's front plate