Problem with weapons. Help

I have a problem
I have a weapon(The elven bow) that I downloaded off campaign creations and I want to attach the weapon to my warden at the start of a game. I can get it to attach but it still has the original weapon. I am using a custom skin for the model.

How can you get rid of the original weapon(The funny circular blade)?

Search in the skinning forums on "alpha removal" or "alpha-ing out weapons".

.tga files have 4 channels of data, one for each colour and a last one for transparency. By editing this last transparency channel you can make the part of the skin that has the weapon invisible.