Jon Buescher
Well-Known Member
I would like to keep making these tomahawks and someday would like to make some hatchets and axes, I am quickly running low on rasps and want to use known steels when I am done with the rasps. Is mild steel stock acceptable for making the body of these items? I plan on using 1084 for the cutting edges. I would incorporate the carbon steel into the cutting edges using the normal method. On the hatchets I would like the pole to be hard enough to use as a hammer to pound stakes and such, in that case I was curious if 1045 steel would be sufficient