Hey, I have to tell you that this is modeled extremely well. I have looked at the pictures that you have posted on the Google community site but now having had the opportunity to download this I have gained a deeper respect for your work. It's clean and not filled with a lot of extraneous verts. I downloaded it to see how you modeled the blade, see if I could learn something more about weapons modeling and discovered that you and I, at least with this particular blend file, model in very much the same way. That being said I did learn some new things from this that I will definitely take into future projects. Well done and thanks for the share.

Nice work dude, gonna use it in my school project (:

Used this in a test render for a project I'm working on, in Blender. This was just what I needed, for a realistic sword. [Octobox test renders](http://highstrangeness.deviantart.com/art/Octobox-concept-and-test-renders-650801020?ga_submit_new=10%253A1481675995&ga_type=edit&ga_changes=1)