I have a character I'm training, Jack Sparrow, and the skills I'm working on so far are:

Anatomy
Healing
Resisting Spells
Swordsmanship
Parrying
Tactics

Right now I have him wielding a cutlass with 30 di and 30 ssi. It's quick but comparatively weak. I also have a smith character and a golden hammer I want to burn making weapons for Sparrow to use.

So my question is, what swords weapon should I make with that golden hammer? I don't have any idea what would be best. The cutlass just fits the character. I don't want a two handed weapon because I don't have any bushido and I use a shield for parrying so I need a one-handed swords weapon.

What are everyone's opinions on the best swords weapon for this character?

~Gaspar LeMarc

It really depends on how much stamina you have, since you want to be swinging as close to the cap as possible. I'm guessing with that template you don't have much int and high dex, to make your bandages faster. Many of the 1 handed swords are fast and weak. I'd suggest a radiant scimitar for the whirlwind special, but it isn't much stronger than a cutlass. Bone harvesters and scimitars are heavier hitting, but their DPS is pretty poor because of their speed. Elven machetes might be worth looking into.

If you have the gems, you could try crafting the special ML recipe weapons, like the twinkling scimitar or machete of defense for guaranteed DCI.

I switch between alot of swords weapons depending what i'm up to but it always seems I will fall back to a trusty katana.
If your smith is legendary with gm armslore hold a +30 or better yet a +60 ash and use the gold hammer with bronze ingots and close your eyes and bang out all Katanas,open your eyes and hope you see a sweet high SSI with High HL plus DI plus some DCI.
If your smith is good then you stand good odds of banging out 2 or 3 nice kats and decent odds of banging out 1 that you will treasure.

i have to agree , i love the katana , and its what i use most , and only one i make with a runic

you must admit though,its fun to start it out as a knife fight but then finish it with a katana.

I consider myself a veteran smith, however I'm intrigued by this.
With legendary smithing, the probability of crafting an exceptional katana is 100%. So why do you need an ancient hammer?