Thanks for the kind words guys, I really appreciate it. I've been thinking of doing something like this for years and its very gratifying to hear your thoughts.
As Detlef rightly points out not all the swords shown are from myself (I wish many of them were!) - some were and have passed onto others and many are there thanks to their kind owners who gave permission to have them shown.
Once the curved takouba are also in the system and a few new ones it will be around 60ish I guess listed. On that note, if anyone has takouba in their collection I'm always delighted to have even more listed! I've been thinking to expand the site to include kaskara as well.
Did you find the categories used to be enough coverage? I couldn't think of any other major criteria off the top of my head. Any suggestions for other useful ways to sort them?
Regarding the system - without getting overly technical, if anyone wanted to make use of it in the future it would require some pretty standard grade webhosting (web space, database, perhaps a domain name) and that's about it really - I'd be happy enough to help out with the setup. I can't took too much credit for it as all I did was basically chop out all the shopping cart bits like prices and the order system.