I've recently started training in HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) with a focus on German longsword. I live in a small house with quite low ceilings so swinging a meter plus synthetic trainer around won't work. I'd been using a length of 25mm dowel but you have no edge orientation or crossguard orientation so wanted to improve it. The crossguard model allows you to keep some orientation, I printed it in 2 sections on my mini+ in prusament petg and superglued it on. The pommel I glued on and also added a screw after glueing, that way it can be definitely centred. At the other end of the 25mm dowel I've drilled the end and embedded in some lead weights to bring the balance point to around 6cm in front of the guard. It's lighter than a trainer synthetic or a steel feder obviously but the balance is similar so you can train reasonable accurately.
The author marked this model as their own original creation.