The fire was created using the flamethrower tutorial and putting the emitter at the base of the blade. The sword tutorial is a two parter. They are located in the VIP section under:

Modeling - sword (all parts
texturing - sword part 2 (A continuation of the modeled sword)
Effects - Flamethrower

Hope this helps Zocky.

Twisteddragon33: I was pretty much following the tuts to get some experience. So I never modeled anything around it. In hindsight if I gave the particles a longer lifespan the sword would have flame all the way up instead of "burning out" towards the end. You can see the final rendering in the gallery. But thanks for the input.