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I will soon be producing several of these pieces in newer and different steel qualities. Options are never a bad thing! I hope to be able to offer this sword, and the Kopis in 5160, L-6, and Damascus steels. These are the practical and economic choices to produce modern, useable copies of these ancient swords. While ancient smithing techniques can be reproduced here, the qualities and attributes of such pieces are really only valuable to researchers. The cost-to-authenticity factor of such Iron swords is usually just too high to be attainable for the average living historian. But It is an option if you are a true die-hard with lots of money!

An accurate and perfect tracing of the British National Museum Kopis was used. I believe this artifact to represent the zenith of this sword type. Accounting for edge loss and general corrosion, this Kopis has been resurrected to the shape and profile it would have existed in the mid-5th Century.

Studying the artifact Kopis in my personal collection, I have come to understand the methodology of the original Greek construction and reproduced it exactly. Further surviving artifacts I have been allowed to handle and study show that some sword blades in that time period were made of a laminated or Damascene steel. Though not as complex as what we associate with Damascus steel today. This is a fact overlooked and unavailable to other manufacturers. I have chosen to use this steel over iron or low carbon iron also used in the period, as they will not produce as durable or as beautiful a weapon as you're really paying for. I've opted to make the finest examples of the period and not the lower end range from the period. We certainly see a wide variance in quality amongst the artifacts and I feel reproducing the finest examples with the finest available material is in the end; more desireable to my customers.

I believe that you cannot get more accurate than real. So I take great pride, and great pains to ensure that all Dioskouri products are made of the original materials wherever possible and that the same techniques and methods of construction are likewise followed exactly as was done in the classical period.