Cold Steel Spike Hawk redo

[Bush Monkey]

stripped paint
ground away lip inside hawk head
fine fitted handle
oil finished handle
ground away imperfections
re-bevel
beveled beard
welded set screw hole
bead blast
plumb brown finish

The one (below) was done with a blue and etch finish:

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[Johnny B]

Nice clean looking job.

 

[messerist]

100% improvement!

 

[SC_Knives]

Looks great!

I have a question and it might be a dumb one... How does the hawk head stay secure to the handle without a wedge?

 

[Geoffrey]

The handle and possibly the eye have a taper.

I have modified 5 various cold steel tomahawks, the heads are kinda rough and uneven and the eye typically are very rough. I have found that by reshaping the handle and eye both to have a nice gradual taper make the head and handle lock together pretty well without a wedge.

 

[Ausbrooks]

Very nice work- like the plumb brown finish quite a bit.

 

[murphda2]

100% improvement!

I must agree.

 

[j4cub]

Great looking Ax! You do nice work.