Glad you decided to have a go Chirone,
Benny steered you right with the handles, you should use the cv curve tool to draw out the shape of the handles and then extrude along the curve/curves you create.Judging by the complexity of the handles you might find it easier to make those using polygons rather than nurbs.
In case you were wondering there is no reason you can't model using a combination of nurbs and polys.
A good start with the revolves btw.