wand or staff, ? Options

do they use the same way or is one better than the other? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Second I made my own Athame,(blade handle the whole works) and can call it anything I want ot call it. I dont care if you put negative spin on something that is discriptive. I call it an athame because it is used only in magick for evoking/invoking, and not for slicing vegatibles!

I think its great that you made your own rather than getting a tasteless store-bought one like most people.

You can, of course, call it whatever you like. My objection to w-ccan terminology is that it has, in many cases, been designed solely to project a halo image around a thing. Now, the feeling of other-ishness and sanctity is exactly the point of ritual instruments.
However, the ancient Celts, if we desire to base our practice on them, definitely called it something else, and I suspect the word "athame" was brought in precisely for all the wrong reasons (it is the cold blade counterpart of a person with too much black makeup).

In other words, my objection is not to the word being descriptive, but to the way it is descriptive. "Ceremonial dagger" is descriptive. Athame means "knife" in old french, and, ironically, is descriptive of a vegetable-cutting instrument.

The image you have attached is, to me as an amateur celtologist, absolutely beautiful. Theres even the strap buckle preserved.
However, it appears to be of a military rather than ritual design.
I am afraid the word "athame" was unknown to ancient Celts, and thus calling a shortsword "athame" is inaccurate at the very least.