Joining two object in Blender Continuing on my previous question.  Here below is the result of my first try at joining 2 objects in one.  A sword hand grip and a pommel.

I wanted a smooth seamless result as in my reference so I decided to join the objects and then merge the vertices between the two objects together.

All went well except for the small dents you see where the joint lines where.  I know there is something wrong with the mesh.  In the examples below I joined one side where I even subdivided the Handel mesh adding a vertice to have a vertice merging point.  This produced the following result.


The second pic is the result where I have not yet joined the vertices.



I have uploaded a file as well if you could help in removing those 2 final dents.


I think I may have solved the problem by connecting the vertices you marked below to the middle one.  Here is the result. A smooth surface.
Ronin, 

I've taken a look at the model, you have a simple vertice problem which is solved like this:

Select vertice 1 and then select vertice 2


Hit Alt + M and select "At Last" to merge at the second vertice


Do this for both of these, and your problem should be solved


I would also recommend deleting these faces as they are only taking up vertice count and can potentially mess up the model.


Before


After