BC1-1908 work in progress/UV layout problem

Did you try Average Islands Scale?  If they're not averaged, it shows which UVs have more pixel density with the different colors, which is confusing when you're using it to find stretching.  Also you have a funky hidden face somewhere, which is also probably throwing off the colors.

I have isolated the funkiness in your sword.  It's in the tip area where some verts look like they were merged, but actually were not.  Hopefully these images help.

 Selecting the whole sword and pressing Average Islands Scale in the UV editor did not work for me.  

jjesse94 you also need to select everything in the UV Editor for Average Island Scale to work!

Or you can enable Selection Syncing, so that happens automatically:

You have an issue with the mesh, a couple of stray verts.

one on either side of the sword (left image), see how the orange line passes the vert next to it and continues to the next vert? 

if you merge each vert with the one next to it (right image) this should solve your problem.

select everything and unwrap again, everything is a lovely shade of blue. A slight greeny blueish on the tip of the sword but nothing to worry about.

How to you get a clean layout of the VUs? When I unwrap its a mess all the UVs are on top of each other. 

Never mind  I found that I had to press unwrap again

That's where the selection syncing went!  Thanks Spikey!