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Custom Tomahawks From Jack Woerner
by Jack Woerner

A little background on my hawks... A while back I saved and saved to buy a nice hawk from RMJ Forge, but was disappointed to find he had stopped orders to the public. So, in my frustration, I said to heck with it, and I'll forge 'em myself.

(Hold your mouse pointer over each pic for more info!)

Two finished hawks and some wood blanks for handles

I make the blades of 1095 steel, head/bodies of 1045, weld them up & beat them to shape. I then harden and temper them so that a new file will cut the edge, but an old file will just "sing" on the blade.

Hammered out
Holding rounded head
Rounded bottom details
Rounded top details

I'll also throw in a picture of a cold steel Rifleman I modified a little, and browned up for a utility thrower (it's weight matches most of my own designs so I don't get screwed up with weights that much).

I drilled/filed the cross in the blade and found it ALOT easier than I had dreaded making... easy "mod" that works well, and looks unique.

Customized cold steel hawk

My handle material comes from Ebay mostly, I stain the maple with "Red Devil Lye" and brown the steel with Birchwood Casey "Plum Brown" (works great!), then coat everything with tung oil and rub it in with 0000 steel wool.

Maple blanks before they get turned into handles
Two finished hawks with maple handles

My nice maple tomahawks are for hunting, I use 'em for building tree stands, mending fences, butchering deer out after quartering, etc. I do not throw my maple handled blades, I'll push a 20" hickory handle in them for that, like I did with this one:

A wicked awesome hawk that Jack was kind enough to hook me up with! - S. Gracia

I also included a pic of the sheath as I couldn't find a good period-ish looking sheath - so again - I made my own.

Sheath pattern
Backside picture of sheath
Bottom view of sheath
Check out the detailed stitching that Jack did!

Most of my work comes in about 32oz. - this size seems to throw well for me, but is a little brutal on my targets. I throw my hawks 1 full revolution at about 18-20 feet, with halves at about 10 foot intervals and doubles out at 40 something feet (if you have the arm for it!)

I am really enjoying looking at all the great work of the knife throwers on this site, their targets, and throwing skills - IMPRESSIVE!

Chop Chop!

Article Contributed By:

Jack Woerner



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