[maxiball]

by Keith Lisle.
Nice bit of craftsmanship what?
Wish I could shake loose the bucks for this'n tho I doubt it would see any throwing contests.

[Mike Weber]

Nice looking Pipe Hawk.

[weaverrick]

Very pretty. Can't imagine it sticking out of a stump though, even if there was a playing card.

[Antlurz]

Here's something similar in a basic sort of way.

Ron

[StrawHat]

Ron

While this thread is about hawks, and I have no intention of stealing it, that is a nice looking braodax.

I have used similar to square logs and such.

Do you use yours?

[Antlurz]

Nope. At least not anymore. I got it from my Dad, and I don't think it's done any real work for about 50 years, since Dad and I did some repair work on an old peg barn way back when.

Ron

[maxiball]

That pipe hawk ain't bad at all! and I too like the broad axe.
Is the one in the middle a pick axe?
You don't see many like that.
Strawhat.
No need to be concerned about stealing a thread.:up:
Can you shoot PPC with a cap'n ball?:D :D

[Antlurz]

Actually, that one in the middle is a gen-yoo-wine injun tommy hawk from the middle to late 19th century. It belonged to an indian kid my Dad ran around with and was given to him by the kids Mom after he killed himself in a freak accident with his own bow and arrow when him and Dad were about 8 or 10 years old. A freaky story all of it's own. It had belonged to his father, and I think Dad told me his father before that. They were a fairly common design for tomahawks, but the handles were normally a bit longer. I think they were commonly referred to as a spike hawk. I don't know if that is the original handle or not, but it was the one that was on it when the indian kid had it back in the 1920's.

Ron

[Mike Weber]

Nice looking collection Ron. Those broadaxes are getting hard to find. They can be handy for rough planing logs. I recognized the Spike Hawk it probably originated as a trade hawk. Handle was probably around 18 inches.

I'll have to get a pic of my Hawk mine is more of a camp axe style hawk with a square back. I keep the edge honed down to a razor edge and currently I've got it mounted on an 18 Hickory handle. I carry my hawk strapped to my hunting pack and I've used it many times when butchering game. It will slice through the brisket of an elk like going through hot butter. Been a while since I've practiced throwing a hawk, the one I carry now is more of a working tool and I wouldn't want to mess up the edge throwing it.

[Antlurz]

This one isn't what I'd call razor sharp, but if you drag it down your arm, it will cut a few hairs here and there. If I'd spend a few minutes on it, I'm sure it would qualify as a razor. When I tempered it, it ended up where a nice new file will just barely cut it. I thought about drawing it down a bit more, but decided to leave it that way. I dearly love the balance it has, but would never dream of throwing it. The handle is rock maple with some nice minor curling towards the mouthpiece. I should have waited till I came up with a fancier piece of wood, but decided to go with this one.

Ron

[Mike Weber]

Ron:
Did you forge the head for your Pipe Hawk? I've considered making another Hawk that would be more decorative. I've got a local friend who does a lot of the hand forged blade work for the Northwest Rendevous crowd as well as some stuff for Crazy Crow and some other frontier sutlers. I just might have him forge another hawk head for me. I've got a half dozen curly maple handle blanks out in the garage. I've also got a few catlinite blanks for carving pipe bowls. I'm going to Pow Wow this coming Sunday and I'll check around for some suitable Flint and Obsidian for you for those spear points we talked about.

[Antlurz]

Great!

No, I bought the head and then did some reshaping on it. I'm sure the one in the picture maxi posted was the same one to begin with.

I'd love to forge my own, but I'm afraid those days are in the past and the big anvil is getting rusty.

Ron

[Mike Weber]

I'd like to forge a few blades myself but unfortunately I don't have a forge out in the garage, but I have been thinking of getting one.

[Antlurz]

You can build a nice one out of a clay chimney flue and an old roll around hoover vaccuum cleaner. You can use either charcoal or propane. Dad had one on legs that had a long handle on the side with a leather belt driven fan that worked pretty good. It had seen better days, and was designed for coal, so I let it go. I kept the anvil and stuff.

Ron

[Mike Weber]

old roll around hoover vaccuum cleaner.
I use one of those to heat up a steel crucible when I'm melting down brass for castings. I bury the crucible in a pit filled with charcoal briquettes for a barbecue and use the Vacuum as a blower unit to put air to the fire pit. Works pretty well.

[Antlurz]

What kind of castings do you make?

[Mike Weber]

I've made some castings for muzzleloader parts, butt plates, side plates, butt caps for pistols. Crossguards and Pommel caps for knives etc...

[OFallon]

You can often find a small firepit with hand crank blower at farm sales and flea markets. My most expensive one cost me $125. You can hook up and old hair dryer to it and it works great for air.

If you want a pretty good quality head for a hawk... try Crazy Crow Trading Post. They have both forged and cast heads. Saves all the soot and heat and burns... ;)

[Antlurz]

When my hard drive crashed, I lost all my bookmarks. I got some of them back tonight and I think I can get more. Maybe tomorrow. If I do, I'll link to where this one came from. It's even a better deal than the oe Paul mentioned. They have some great designs, all authentic.

Ron

[Mike Weber]

Don't really have the room in the garage for the forge and anvil setup Too many workbenches and roll away tool chests, What I'd need is a portable setup that I can use outside maybe under some sort of free standing shed.

[Antlurz]

The one I was talking about would definitely be portable. It would only amount to an air source, the clay tile, a refraction concrete base and a lid (when needed). Store it in the garage, set it up in two minutes in the driveway.

Ron

[Old John]

I don't have any Pipe Hawks, now. My DSons talked me out of them.
I do have a few good Throwing Hawks and heavier Throwing Axes.
We have competitions with our Throwing Hawks, at some of the
Camp-outs I go to.
The thing is they do not have to be razor sharp. For throwing, they need
a sturdier edge, than that. I expect it was the same, back in the day,
when they used them for fighting.

I have had no desire to forge my own. I've bought some at "gatherings".
I've traded a few Hawks, too.
One of the very best places to get good Tomahawks and Axes is
Ragnar's Ragweed Forge.
The address is found at: www.ragweedforge.com (http://www.ragweedforge.com)

He has a great catalogue just for Axes & such. And there's a great selection of Knives also.
Every man ought to have a few. shoot, you can't hardly have too many
sharp, or pointy things.
Have fun.