I was able to clean the sword up a bit. There was a lot of surface rust on the scabbard, but since it was made out of some kind of alloy and not chrome plated, I didn't have to worry about polishing off the plating. The blade was in pretty good shape and I only had a little rust to polish off. Was using Mother's, but I will be picking up some Flitz polish to really make it shine. I will also be dismantling the basket hilt to clean and polish that.

I have photo's but every time I try to post them I get a failed message with no explanation. Photo's are taken on an iPhone loaded to a MacBook Air and are in jpeg format. I have no problem with any other website.