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Tomahawk ( Completed ) pg.2
stickbender:
Very nice work! I wouldn't scallop the hande, but would either do some wood burning, design, inlays, or light relief, carving, like a vine, or snake entwined around the handle. or various totems, like the owl on the scabbard, deer, or elk head, buffalo head, moosehead, (Dang, that reminds me I am out of Pabst!!) bear, hog, turkey, mountain lion, etc. You could have two snakes, crisscrossing, around the handle, and ending up with a head on each side, and a tail on each side, with the head or heads, at or near the hawk head, or at the butt of the handle. You could end up with the heads on edge of the handle, and facing ahead, rather than facing towards the edge of the hawk head., or just have a snake on each side, ending up, facing the hawk edge. Sorry, just got to thinking....... not what I am used to doing. ::) :P ;D Again, nice work. Are you going to stain the handle?
Wayne
burchett.donald:
Wayne,
I never tried carving but thought about wood burning some deer tracks and maybe a few brass tacks. Half eye (Rich) posted a beauty a while back that got me started on this one. His had scallops and looked nice...Thanks for the ideas, still undecided...
JW_Halverson:
Hmmm, didja know that one of the worst predators on hawks are great horned owls? Now you have a sheath in direct conflict with what it is supposed to be protecting. Bad juju! Baaaaad!
All that juju stuff aside, that's a nice design for a hawk sheath. It will ride nice and secure to protect the blade and it's user, but still come off easily enough when needed! Good work.
burchett.donald:
Thanks JW, I didn't know that hawks and owls were enemies...Sure hope these two get along. Still working on the handle, maybe I can finish this weekend...
burchett.donald:
Got the handle reduced and sanded...Took a pencil and sketched a barred owl and a big buck track...
My plan is to come back over with a wood burner...Got some scalloping to do and maybe some brass inlay or tacks...Still thinking :-\
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