My mother says "Good luck finding money for that"

Haha well with me i bought a cheap fleamarket rat tang and loved swords from the start. So to pay for all that junk i get i do alot of working, money is not too hard to come by if you dont mind the work also when you do work do what ever you can to put away money just a little at a time. 

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Maybe you can learn to use one in that time? 

Seriously, a sword is just a piece of metal unless you know how to use it. Or actually, it's worse, as you might hurt yourself or someone other with it - or even break it! And if you don't have an idea about swords, it'd rather hard to choose one. The ones that are balanced properly cost a lot of money. And if you don't know what kind of a sword you'd prefer when you go shopping for one... 

Modern fencing or some kind of an oriental martial art would probably be easiest to find. Some martial arts are only about the sword, some include some basic moves with it while focusing on other things. But if you're going for a European sword, what you want is historical fencing. I mentioned thearma.org site on the proper forum some time ago, and got very informative replies.

well what i do is collect as much info on the sword/weapon that i can find. I ask people if they ever bought it and what they think, I read articals one of my favortie places is this:
http://www.myarmoury.com/reviews.html

also have a look at the collections and things.

I went to a knife show recently. Never buy a knife over 6 inches made of stainless steel and expect them to work. At all. Buy the real thing, not cheap replicas, even if it promises "Authentic! Worthy of ....... "fill in the blanks.

What would you use a battle axe for?

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Now how could natives without any sophisticated tools have any chance at all of cutting up steel pots and succesfully shaping them??!?! I would say that Badgerdude is actually right, that often just whipping up another flint point is easier than just going out and buying a steel one. Sure they could get their hands on metal, but where ever you are getting your information from must be pretty dubious.

Sorry, Hellfire, but you are, in fact, wrong.  The use of metal points by "primitive" peoples across the world is well documented.  Hoop iron was used frequently in America by native peoples, who had no other iron.  They would take the iron from wagons and carts, bend it, shape it, flatten it with rocks, heat it.  Brass kettles given to people in the north-east would quickly be torn up, and many other objects of metal would be taken to pieces.  I'm sure it's not as difficult as it sounds.