One may make their own Athame by taking any double edged knife and decorating the handle...either inscribing it with various symbols holding great meaning to you, or simply painting it black. Some skilled workers will forge their own metal athames, but some others aren't that adept and only work on replacing handles, but keeping the blade itself.
The interesting thing about the athame is, because it's used to only direct energy, and not cut anything physical, the athame may be made out of just about anything, ranging from metal, to wood, to even bone.
If you're not too picky on whether or not your athame's blade is metal or not, you can make your OWN athame, with the help of a skilled carver or even a dremmel tool.
All you need is a length of wood (however long you want your athame), and a dremmel tool or carving knife.
On a whim one day, many, many moons ago, I took it upon myself to create my own athame out of a scrap piece of wood my husband had. I grabbed his dremmel, figured out how to attach the grinder, and just grinded away. What was left when I was done was what looked like a wooden knife (the blade a little thicker than I wanted, but it was my first attempt at wood carving, so it turned out well).
If you have the idea in your head of how a basic double-edged blade looks like, you can try to make a blade that looks like a traditional knife, only wood. But the nice thing is, that an athame doesn't have to look like your typical blade. It can be as amateurish as you like. It can just be a flattened out piece of wood with a thick handle. The inspiration is all yours.
Once it's all carved out, all you need do is decorate it (naturally, if you want). Paint it, carve into it, wrap it in ribbons. Do what you like to it, cuz it's your tool, used for YOUR purposes!
Have fun with it!
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