This may not seem like a witchy project, but trust me, it’ll get there. This is just my documentation of the first steps. I picked up this knife from a yard sale last summer and I’ve been meaning to modify it since then. it’s a great little pocket knife that I got for maybe $2?. It was very handy while helping expand my mother in laws garden (check link for cute baby squirrel), but I had one major complaint. As you can see by the picture on the left, it comes in this garish fake gold color, which I hate. So it’s 5am and I just got done sanding off all the anodization, because the acid I had wasn’t strong enough to clean it off. Already it looks and feels so much nicer. The plans are as follows. In a few hours I’m going to take it apart again and take it to the polishing wheel, because like I said it’s 5am. Also I’m not dumb enough to polish a fully assembled knife in the morning after not sleeping. Thanks, I’ll take the scales off first. So I want to get the scales to a mirror finish. Then I’m going to use nail polish to paint some sigils disguised as constellations an star patterns on then shiny new scales. Finally I’m going to give it a vinegar bath which will greatly darken the exposed steel, but when I dissolve the nail polish it’ll have silver stars all over the newly darkened scales.
I’m not super sure what I’m going to do to the blade itself. I might practice my file work on the spine. Really it’s just something to keep me busy while I wait a few more weeks for it to be warm enough to blacksmith. I’m so excited to get back to blacksmithing. I have so many ideas and plans. I’ll talk more about those in detail later, but expect atheme, iron wands, maybe some bells if I can figure that out, and I really want to do some scroll work and make a ye olde hanging shop sign.
