Bushi, I'll fiddle with it. The sword is modeled after one from a painting by Royo. His version has an even longer blade, but the hilt isn't much thicker. I know that most hand and a half and two handed swords tend to have fairly long hilts. This character is Elven, so I figured her hand would be even smaller on the hilt than a human character's. I also would think that the areas of the blade that are "cut out" would decrease the weight of the blade? I will mess around with it. I haven't added much to the texture maps for the sword yet, other than the design on the lower part of the blade and the end peice for the hilt, but I don't want to have to make a new UV map. I guess the best approach would be to do the alterations as morphs, which actually should make it easier to fine tune. Thanks. :-)