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looking for a small tomahawk head
Thesquirrelslinger:
--- Quote from: Ifrit617 on April 27, 2013, 10:07:47 pm ---Did you forge that hawk SS?
Jon
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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.
mullet:
I've got one of wildman's attached to a Walking Stick. there are real nice heads, I'd like another.
Thesquirrelslinger:
--- Quote from: mullet on April 27, 2013, 11:34:14 pm ---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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Can you take a pic?
They sound cool:)
wildman:
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.
mullet:
Here's another one;
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