Forgot to take pictures, but used the my orbit sander to start shaping the sword and cleaning it up. Unfortuantly the knot in the wood fell out during sanding so now there is a hole iin the sword. Not sure what I'm going to do with that. After using the orbit sander, I used my sanding blocks and worked my way through the grits. Finishing with 320 by hand, and then hitting it with 800 becuase why the hell not.