I didn't have a problem with the quillons, but at any rate I'd say they're more dangerous to whatever's on the receiving end.
I'm glad you asked, and I'll try to explain:
The tip was inspired by a Chinese jian I saw a few years ago. It had a tip that was at a blunt angle like this sword, except it was double-edged so it was two such angles back to back. I thought tip was striking and interesting, and it dawned on me how something like that would be useful with jian techniques I'd learned that perhaps didn't make the most sense - the tip of that jian was enlightening with regards to how a jian is used. That type of sword tip was later explained to me by two Chinese sword-maker guys who said the use translates into "sawing" and is sort of an angled push-cut thrust, or short, hard cut.
That sort of tip can punch into a target with a of acute thud, like a heavy kubotan sort of thing, except that it is very sharp and will stab also. It allows me to make the end of the sword thin, yet also very strong under hard impact, unlike a wispy thrusting tip...it extends the effective heavy blow area of the blade all the way out past the sweet spot and to the very end of the blade!
Unlike that jian, this sword gets wider at the distal end, which helps give it lots of cutting power even though it's fairly light. So it's sort of a curved, single-edged version of that "sawing" jian. It is a shape or design that takes great advantage of the light, tough ti alloy blade that begs you to use it in an aggressive, cavalier way, with fast, hard cuts.
In this era or age, a sword like this if pressed into weaponly service would almost certainly be used like a machete, bat or stick, with simple, natural strikes and aggressive, gross body movement. Nobody is taking their rapier and dueling a couple of crackheads who run up in their workshop at night. They're not going to be parrying and thrusting and running someone through with accuracy. This sort of sword is simply a great design for the typical swordly skill set of this age. The sword would also be fantastic when used by a highly skilled swordsman.
It is also designed to be a grade A++ machete for all sorts of plants from light grass to splitting firewood, use as a breaching tool, demolition tool, trail buster, giant tuna fish filet knife, etc., in addition to looking intimidating. It can do pretty much anything.
It's everything I want a sword to be!
And it's very natural for me to make. It actually took quite a lot of testing and thinking and such to refine the design, which isn't as simple as it looks. What is interesting is that it's very similar to the swords Leonardo had in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles before TMNT got ruined by the super idiotic new versions. On the Knife or Death tv show set, everyone was calling the style a "ninja sword" for lack of a better description, LOL!
