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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. 
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. 
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. 
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: 
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. 
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 It's free, and there's no obligation. |
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