The handle of this weapon has a handguard shaped like a shield.

A shielding weapon is most often employed as an off-hand weapon. Activating a shielding weapon transforms it into a heavy steel shield, with the same enhancement bonus as the weapon itself (both for AC and when making shield bash attacks).

Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, animate objects, shield.
Cost to Create: 1,000 gp (plus 300 gp for base item), 80 XP, 2 days.