#puukko

Oh look, it's everybody's favorite pirate old lady!

EDIT: old blog reinstated! Thanks everyone for all your help and support during the shipwreck. ❤️❤️❤️

I'm back over at @smokeys-house

Marooned, even. Used to be smokeys-house. For those that know me, you know I've been on tumblr for many many years. I spent a long time building my previous blog. Anyway the basic idea is that tumblr terminated my previous account without warning, and staff has not contacted me after several attempts to reach out.

I've read and re-read the guidelines and rules and have not violated a single one in my time on here. All my writing is gone. Forever. Poof. Hook, line, sinker. Dead in the water. All the art that had been given to me by artists on here is saved, but the posts are gone meaning all those artists are no longer receiving notes for their hard work.

It's incredibly unlikely that I'll be able to return to the way things were at this point, but I can at least try to rebuild some semblance of what I had.

If you're seeing this, and you remember me or my time here on tumblr, I would greatly appreciate if you could reblog this to help me reach some of my online friends that I already miss dearly.

I used to post and reblog primarily moomin content and moomin oc content (mainly my oc, puukko), so if you're new to smokey's house and that sounds interesting to you please consider following despite how empty my blog is at the moment.

Once it had reached a neighborly hour for hammering, I beveled the design:

And man oh MAN, what a difference using good leather makes. Look at that lovely burnishing. 😻😻😻

Experimented with using a seeder stamp to make the background this time:

It’s interesting; I don’t hate it. Reminds me of frog eggs.

Shaping it around the knife over lost a lot of the detail near the fold though. Next time I’ll make sure the tooled parts stay a little further from the spine:

I did some manual touchups to the tooling, and finished the shaping:

Stained it (with Eco-Flo medium brown antiqueing gel, followed by Fiebings dark brown antiqueing paste), gave it a topcoat of resolene:

With the stain, I actually prefer the seeder to the backgrounding texture I used yesterday. I don’t even think it took any longer to do.

Lay down contact cement on inside edges, wait 15 minutes:

Press sides together, decide where you’re going to cut off the excess. I had learned yesterday (but forgotten about, and failed to correct for when I was designing the pattern for this one) that the edge needs more allowance around the handle than the blade, in order to have enough room to fit the rivets, so I widened it out a bit:

Cut off the excess: 

Round & smooth the edges with dremel and sandpaper:

Stained edges and burnished them with tokonole again, then punched my holes. (And set an eyelet into the top, instead of putting two belt loops):

Put in the rest of the rivets and BAM, FINISHED.

and oh my god it is the cutest thing EVER. LOOK AT THIS LITTLE GUY. LOOK HOW PHOTOGENIC HE IS. 😍😍

(I’ll be honest, I’m considering keeping this one for myself instead of selling it.)