Making Even More Room- Two Through the Haft Spike "Hawks

Church & Son

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If these lay around here very long I start throwing them and I'm not very good at it.

The first one has 22″ haft and the head is 7.5″ across. It was hot cut from a 100 yr. old plow, bevels and edges were forged then cleaned up with files. Heat treated in salt water. The head is held in place with steel pins and rawhide thongs. This one has a rawhide wrap stitched on a Oak haft. The wrap was painted in the Native American way with natural pigments. A small rawhide over veg-tan sheath with some simple stamping and a few trade beads covers the blade.

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The second one has a 19″ haft and is 8″ from blade to end of spike. Made from the same plow steel as the other, forged and heat treated the same. The haft is Sweetgum, has a stitched rawhide wrap and a little twisted fringe from under the head thongs. The rawhide over veg-tan blade cover has a rawhide concho and a few trade beads with a antler button to keep it tight.

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The hafts are from seasoned wood I split and draw-knifed to shape, then torched and scraped. Leather and wood is finished with my homebrew of grease, dirt, homemade dye and varnish. Forged in a charcoal forge, no electricity is used. Thanks for looking........Randy

$ SOLD each shipped Paypal or MO
 
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