works in progress

[ApprenticeMan]

Finally got some time to play today.

beginning of a tomahawk, still attached to the parent bar


Here is some stock waste *COUGH* er..uhhh.. I mean removal swords and knives I am working on, getting in some grinding practice.

short sword


Big.....not sure what type of blade shape.....


A tactical type knife

[ApprenticeMan]

My bro has turned me onto the zombie apocalypse thing, and reading a bit of world war Z, so I started work on a zombie survival machete

[ApprenticeMan]

And a couple of messers in the works



tip detail of above



And the other


Using Aldo's 1060/1077 , it's 3/16ths thick, so I feel comfortable grinding it to shape, with 1/4 I feel like I am wasting too much steel. the blades are blue from the dykem layout spray.

[dablacksmith]

i like the tommahawk! not sure about the zombie thing...well ..theyre dead right??? so who is gona pay you for um ... dead peple dont get paid......

[kovacija(blacksmith)]

great work mann!

[ApprenticeMan]

Thanks guys ! Dablacksmith, hehe it is for use by the living on the undead, not the other way around .

Kovacija, thank you, I hope to have more pictures soon.

[coltpax]

About the zombies, I've heard that a bayonet is best to use because it doesnt get stuck in them, but I'm not sure cause I've never had the chance to test it. but, aside from that, those are some wicked looking blades. That first last one on you first post looks like it'll be a good chopper too.

[ApprenticeMan]

Colt, best way to stop a zombie undead in his tracks it to lop off the heads.

The little hawk is for a friend of mine(my old teacher in fact), he wants it for skinning his first deer this year.