Quote - > Quote - I finally finished making my changes.  Turned out subsurface and bevels were just what I needed.  The first link is the (more-or-less) finished product, the 2nd link is a closer view of the hilt.

Wow.. That looks really sharp now!   Great job. 

 

Thanks a lot!  

I was thinking about trying to figure out how to make it into a poser and/or daz prop and possibly submitting it as a freebie if there was interest in it.   I wanted to make sure it was worthy of the renderosity community first though, so all the help and advice you all have given me is greatly appreciated.