Aaah indeed i would make them two handed but like you said, the intention is for them to be specifically one-handed; just to be used by whateva hand i need. You can liken the idea to World of Warcraft how you can have a "main hand" weapon that can only be equipped by your main hand and likewise how "Offhand" weapons can only be equipped in your offhand/shield slot. On the shield note, i've tried setting the Equip Type to Shield (and likewise modifying the Nif data to be of type Shield as well) but no luck :(