Why the Saber Halberd Failed to Live Up to Its Potential: A Beautiful Weapon That Failed to Deliver

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Marcus Vance

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We can all hear the "wobble wobble" that the metal would make when you shake it.

hidude

If you cut 90% of the handle away, the resulting sword might be good for combatants in armor, because they could shift their grip and use the hatchet cross guard as a weapon.

brookejon

Seems a better idea for a sword, the axe portion is a guards, the saber in a blade, the back could be a spike of a hammer. Single edged for half sword one even with the curved shaped making it scarier and when half swording, you have a axe and a hammer.

PJDAltamirus

Looks beautiful, could probably work well if balanced properly

meager

Thats surprising.. I would theorize that the length of the blade would take away some of the utility and versatility of a halberd, like a disarm technique.

davemancini

If the glaive blade is shorter and facing the opposite way it could possibly work

brianmoyachiuz

If you want to cross a glaive with a halberd, you want a glaive with that reinforced top spike.

dynamicworlds

I feel like a better design would be one where the axehead and glaive blade are facing opposite sides, so you can alternate which side you attack with depending on need like a lot of polearms do

jelkbaker

Huh. With out the halberd axe part it would kind of be a naginata.

CoyotesOwn

Reinforce the shaft with something solid like an AR steel rod (AR steel is pretty freaking dense) and taper the stabby bit just a tad, and you got yourself a pretty beefy chopstick. Would take a big guy to wield it, but nothings going to stop it, so...

ridiculousrandy

I think it would be a nice, effective weapon if the blade was either made half as long, or the blade and ax portions were each attached to the handle separately; and maybe with a slightly thicker spine on the saber portion

allaion

Seems really redundant to slap an axe head on a thin blade. If you wanted to add more heft just make a thicker (wider?) sword blade, like a cleaver shape but with a point. As it is you just have a weird “sweet spot” with a more obtuse blade angle.

gokuss

You can make a functional one, if you keep the axe head small and design it as a blunt striking surface, which BTW was not uncommon for concave axeblades.

edi

It doesn't look functional. Weapons that hack don't really cut like that. So your either using the blade or the head. The blades length makes it less maneuverable and causes the head to be obsolete. A design with a shorter blade may be more practical. But then, might as well make a bigger head. This is why having a spike/hammer/axe at the end was so popular with these weapons. Why cut when you can hack?

josephjenott