Spike Tomahawk

[anvil1231]

Here's a spike tomahawk the I made by reforging a 24oz ball peen hammer. It sure beats having to slit and drift the eye. I do however redrift the eyes bigger to accept a regular tear drop shaped hawk handle. The handle is made from hickory.

 

[RickD]

Now that is nice very nice

 

[Twice boom]

You have a great Eye. Good Job :thumbsup:
Twice.

 

[Roy]

:thumbsup: Nice

 

[PitchyPine]

Very sharp :thumbsup:

 

[fatboy]

Very nice !! Did you make your drift ? and are you forging using a power hammer or do do all your work by hand

 

[Nifeman]

Stuart, I must say you do great work. Thats what I like a hawk with simple lines...Bud

 

[anvil1231]

Thanks for all the kind words,I appreciate it.

LHunter,I do the initial forging with the power hammer and then finish up with the hand hammer. I used to make them all with the hand hammer,but it took way to long. About 8 or 9 hrs. of hard forging. I use the drifts from here Hawk drift

 

[Sunkmanitu Tanka]

Way to go Stuart! I love the pipe tomahawk you made for me out here in Belgium! Each rondy there is some bloke wanting to hold and admire her! They all love it ... and with reason!
greetings!
Ludo

 

[Harold1950]

All I can say is nice hawk and a question, what kind of temperatures are you dealing with to heat the metal hot enough to shape by hand hammering? Again I like the hawk....... :thumbsup:

 

[anvil1231]

Harld, I use a coal forge. I do the initial forging if by hand at a yellow heat..around 2000 deg.F.

 

[Blizzard of '93]

that's a nice job, many a frontiersman would have loved to have had that one. :hatsoff:

 

[fatboy]

Thanks Anvil I wish I had a power hammer or had a buddy close by that would let me play on it. I have to use arm power for now. I may need to have plenty of water on hand when I start one.

 

[anvil1231]

Man, I feel your pain. I used to do it every bit by hand and it is tough. I could not afford to buy a power hammer so I built one. I still sometimes do one all by hand just to stay in tune. Just get it hot,use a heavy enough hammer and like you said keep plenty of water.

 

[fatboy]

Im feeling older then I should the tendenitis flairs up and then there is the brothers Arther & Itis that show up and cause me problems

 

[jmforge]

Nice work! What kind of steel is it?

 

[anvil1231]

Nice work! What kind of steel is it?

I heat treat like 1045

 

[chipper]

I've done a couple of these and the metal's never hard enough after I harden. "Not enough carbon." Do you case harden or does the hammer have enough carbon to harden properly? My test is to cut though a apple wood chunk. I've rolled the blade every time.
Thanks in advance.

Regards
Loyd

 

[JamesG]

Great work man i love your hawk.

 

[Capt. Fred]

Holy manure that's got graceful lines. :thumbsup: