Making a two handed sword for Historical Rapier combat

So one of my many fascinations with sword fighting is the use of two handed swords. As a rapier fighter I have swords of many differing lengths and styles. Furthermore I've studied a couple different two handed sword arts in my past from Kendo, Kenjutsu and greatsword in SCA armored combat. I was stoked when I got the opportunity to get a 45" blade. It was a rapier blade, but I can do metal work so I jumped at the opportunity to get the blade. The blade was in excellent shape, but the tang was only 6 inches long. It would have to get extended. The solution was fairly pragmatic. The tang is threaded in 6mm (which is common pattern in fencing swords) so a 6 mm coupler was procured and so was threaded rod too. The threaded coupler was screwed onto the tang about halfway up the coupler and the threaded rod was inserted and screwed into the back end. A handle had to be fabricated, as well as quillions and a pommel. The plan was to use threaded rod and compress all the pieces together via a nut on the end. First the quillions. 3/4" mild steel bar stock was cut to an appropriate length and drilled to fit and encompass the tang off the sword. That was done with a dremel tool and fitted nicely to the the blade. The handle was sourced from a replace stair ballister. It was drilled through the length and tapped to encompass the coupler as it was wider than the tang. The Pommel was sourced from 3" black pipe and drilled through to accept the threaded rod tang. After a bit of tweaking it accepted the tang and a collared nut put everything together.