The grip looks ok ... but the sword should have a shiny glow on it (I know that's difficult), but it looks a bit like a large kitchen knife to me at the moment.

Still, impressive work for your first skin & mesh !

I call this a custom shirasaya because the blade isnt bent as it should be. http://www.ingali.com/English/show_item.php?REF=XL0310 Here are a katana, a tanto and a wakizashi in shirasaya style.

And about katanas, a real one would be hammered in several layers, the maximum number recorded is 10,736,461,824 layers! A finished samurai sword would be tested by cutting a corpse of a man in two piece with one move, from the head to the crotch, or a huge pile of bambu. Rarely they used living prisoners that were sentenced to death. The sword would also be tested by cutting through stone, if there were no scratches in the sword after that it was a good sword, so Im not surprised it can cut down trees in one move, the Japanese history is amazing!

*cough*reality check*cough* Over 10 billion layers? I doubt it. I'm aware of the layering of samurai weapons, but that's silly.

Even if each layer took only one second, that would take more than 300 years to make

The mesh is a f**king joke, I thought it would take a whole lotta more room. I think Im gonna have to redo it.

<EDIT CLASS="mesh"> Heres the new mesh, much better!

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That's a good point, come to think of it Sorry Aze.

If you want a cool blade make it have a kickass hamon (white crystal line down near the blade) and a dragon inlay. Then people will wanna use it