Primitive Archer
Information and Resources => Trading Post => Topic started by: Ifrit617 on April 27, 2013, 08:43:28 pm
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Hey guys,
I'm looking for a small tomahawk head to make a small belt hawk. It doesn't have to be in great shape, just fixable. Looking for something with a 4-5" head and a 2" -3" cutting edge. Let me know what you have, I got staves, sinew, leather, feathers, knives, arrow shafts and much more I can trade.
Thanks.
Jon
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i'll see what i can find, i think i've got one layin around somewhere...
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Hey guys,
I'm looking for a small tomahawk head to make a small belt hawk. It doesn't have to be in great shape, just fixable. Looking for something with a 4-5" head and a 2" -3" cutting edge. Let me know what you have, I got staves, sinew, leather, feathers, knives, arrow shafts and much more I can trade.
Thanks.
Jon
I can forge you one. Give me a week or two.
Sort of like this-
(http://i1064.photobucket.com/albums/u376/slickwilly1022/004-1.jpg)
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Did you forge that hawk SS?
Jon
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I've got some belt ax blanks or I can have ya one completely done. Pappy has one of mine as well as a few others on here. Plain , but light and functional.
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Did you forge that hawk SS?
Jon
Nope, googled Tommy hawk head. But I do know how to copy it. One of my friends got one as a christmas gift last year from me.
More or less what you do is take a 8 inch piece of steel(for a 3 inch blade or so) and wrap it around a 1" steel rod, while its red hot, and then forge-weld the two ends together, then just forge into shape of blade, and grind an edge. Sounds easy, and the first 1/2 is easy, but its actually pretty hard at the end, if you let it cool after weld and just cold forge, which yields work-hardened steel, which can be pretty dang hard, approaching RC 65. Its also less brittle than high carbon, but not as strong.
I like fairly soft steel for hatchet/axe/tommyhawk.
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I've got one of wildman's attached to a Walking Stick. there are real nice heads, I'd like another.
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I've got one of wildman's attached to a Walking Stick. there are real nice heads, I'd like another.
Can you take a pic?
They sound cool:)
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Mine look a whole lot like this, wait this is mine! Eddie I can finish one up this week and bring it to Tenn. Im sure we can work something out. I was thinking of getting one together for the Club raffle. Like I said not to flashy but effective.
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Here's another one;
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Coolio!!!!
I will take pics when I forge some more.
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Let's see a picture of anything you have forged.
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Let's see a picture of anything you have forged.
+1
Jon
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Jon I gave a beauty away at the Classic to Derik (Bowtarist), shoulda' been there man!
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Jon I gave a beauty away at the Classic to Derik (Bowtarist), shoulda' been there man!
Pearly I'd give anything to make it down next year. Just bad timing for me. Would love to meet some of you guys!
Jon
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Mullet- is that some type of vine for the handle, it's very cool
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Mullet- is that some type of vine for the handle, it's very cool
Looks like it was a young tree with a vine growing around it. I have a staff made from one, but the lumps are not nearly as extreme.
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It's oak that has been choked by Honeysuckle.