Holy crap, mate why are you doing an only text based weapon tutorial these days? There are so many great video tutorials available on youtube, blendercookie.com and whatnot. I'm an experienced modeler, but this tutorial would be a pain in the butt to do for me as well.
Just as an example, it's blender 2.5, but the workflow should be easy to adapt:
http://cgcookie.com/blender/2010/01/16/creating-an-axe-part-1/
PS: Don't do step by step tutorials, you'll learn not much from them. Learn pure basics instead. Doesn't matter if you have to model a sword or a cow, it's all the same, once you have understood how to use the tools inside blender!