Making a Gladius blade

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Have you ever seen a sword with a tang thicker than its blade? I haven't. In fact, on a well-preserved example like the Royal Armouries Pompeii (ex-Guttmann) you can clearly see that the blade was hammered from a billet of the thickness at the blade-tang interface because the end of the tang has slight faces itself, something I noticed that happens after having forged a number of these swords myself.

In your previous post, you said the tang was thinner.... I see I misread that, and you are saying the 'end''

And as you say above, I haven't seen one thinner, and couldn't imagine it either....