old:if this is your first mod, i highly recommend having a team instead of just yourself. having a team means you can have more productivity. take me, zoroarkcity, quickseed40, and armyfrog's T.G.E.M. as an example, we have a small team and i can imagine it would be harder on zoroarkcity if me, quickseed40, and armyfrog hadn't showed up to sprite. and, if you want, i can be a part of that team. i'll even make some changes to the coded blade and dead edge right now to make them better than what either you or zoroarkcity did. (he's the coder and a novice spriter. (no offense))
this is how i did it: i made the border color a desaturated version of the color it's next to. btw, never use jet black. ever.