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Destichado — Tomahawks: Design+Execution
Published: 2005-05-01 00:15:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 2041; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 277
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I drafted these, intending to make them "on the cheap". I saw a pair of hawks I wanted in a catalogue, and thought "Hey, I can make these for less than that!"heh, heh... oops. e_e Well, at least I didn't spend any *money* on them!
These aren't smithed, per se. They were welded from pieces of mild steel, black iron pipe and L-6 tool steel cutting bits. They were both AUS forged to encourage grain multiplication, then differentially hardened and oil quenched. They balance well, and the warhawk is a BEAUTIFUL thrower. The other... well, it's more of an axe than a tomahawk. XD It's something like three times as heavy as the fighting hawk, IIRC, and it makes SHORT work of green wood. Throwing it is... scary.
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awesome design, really well made and really practical , i love it.
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Good design nice and simple an afective weapon is it not.
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the tomohawk on the right is incredibly sweet looking, very nicely shiny and curved. <3
the one on the right has a fantastic sleek black colour. you say you made that from what, black iron pipe?
how long did making each one take you?
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I just had to browse through all your metal works, out of curiosity!
I'm not a weapon maker myself, so I don't have that kind of an eye for these things. Still, I know something about the craft itself... Hm, I'd like to know, if you do metal works only for hobby, or do you do something like this professionally. The techniques you use point to modern metal industry rather than traditional blacksmithing or jewellery making, witch are more familiar to me.
Anyway, it's new for me to see axes and knives made (or should I say 'put together') this way. You have some interesting projects going on!
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I do weld professionally. I'm in charge of the maintenance and fabrication for a small buisness, so these days I'm more of a shop hand or a machinist than a welder, though that's what I was trained as. The weapons, though, that's just a hobby.
My construction techniques are done from necessity -I don't have the right tools to make them the old way!
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Vindication!
I think so too, but nobody agrees! Thanks. ^__^
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A real good Tomahawk isn't hard to smith at all. Just imagine what one would look like if you split it from the edge to where the handle is and folded outwards to look like a butterfly. just make a pattern of that shape on a plate of steel, cut it out and fold it around a metal bar wher the andle would go. yse borax as a flux and a pice of high carbon steel sandwiched at the edge to form the bit. Its the most basic of ax designes. If you don't have a plate of steel or a way to cut it just get a billet of steel and flare each end until you acheive the butterfly patern. A campfire is all you need to heat the steel hot enough and you would be amazed at what makes a serviceable anvil.
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if you consider forge welding easy, yah that is the easiest way
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Hehehehehe. No, not unless you always roast your marshmallows around a charcoal campfire with a clay tuiere and a bellows.
Check out anvilfire.com if you're interested in smithing.
A smithy is like a boat -instead of pouring money into a hole in the water, you're tossing it into a fire.
Been there, done all that, got the anvil and three broken/defunct forges to prove it. XD
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All my knives on here, exept for the one I made today, were made the winter before last. I make mapple syrup using wood fire. On lazzy days I fill the arch to the brim with wood and tamp down the air intake untill the fire is charcoal. Then I open up the air intake full blast untill the doors are glowing cherry red just from the radiant heat. I once left a blade in there for too long (five minutes) and all I had left was a puddle. I have yet to spend any real money on this. Just to buy or scrounge antler and antique tools (junk, I am reverent of craftsmanship but a file shard or saw without a handle is different) to make the blades and handles from. I've done pleanty of reaserch in the library but I remain warry of computers in general. I'll check it out anyway but theres nothing I want do do with steel that I don't already know how too. Thanks!
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that's fucking badass! XD
the 05!'s a bit cheesy, though o_o
I wish I could do that. If i could, i would totally make my character's scythe
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Oh, but the '05! was a necessary bit. It was a gift to a Cadet at VMI, and his class is the most important thing he'll ever identify with, there. And it's part of the Old Yell, too. So think of it as a kind of "in joke", or something like that.
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