If I do a pommel, the stick tang will go all the way thru the handle and be threaded to the pommel.
In those above, there is a threaded rod welded to the end of a half stick tang.
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
Albert Einstein
At Khe Sanh a sign read "For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the protected never knew".
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