Thanks much, using the cut faces tool twice from the side view created enough vertices to model it quite nicely.

Also, a minor editorial error I noticed on page 30: In "Creating the Hilt and...

Isometric View

Side View

I'm currently stuck in the "Creating Silenus's Head" portion of the book. The steps provided were to create a cylinder ( 8 sub axis, 1 sub height) and a sphere (8 sub axis, 8 sub height); scale them...