There's too many swords like this to be honest.
Swords are easy, yet people seem to prefer spending a dozen polygons on the blade and 2000 polygons on the grip.
It's a sword, who's gonna see the handle?
Swords can weigh in at only 100 polys and still look great, if you like I'll knock one up and explain it - maybe that would be a nice little challenge for people, make a sword in 100 or under.
This is not a critique of your modeling, just your sword, you have the skills to build the thing, you just need to concentrate more on sensible polygon counts.