Artist: Richard Gamel
Email: rgamel@CanyonCountry.net
Homepage: http://www.CanyonCountry.net/~rgamel/

Imagine: IFW 2.1.3
Platform: Celeron 400 MHz
Renderingtime: about 10 minutes

A simple jeweled dagger, made of hand carved wood and steel., I just used primitives along with point editing, taper, bend, the poly reduction tool and smooth.. I used only textures, no brushes. I rendered the dagger by itself, added a border and title in Photoshop.