Chris john

3 hawks one with a little spanish influence .

thank you ,Chris

those are awesome. hope you don't mind me stealing some inspiration from those.

 

Hi eggwelder nice hawk .the forum is for sharing go for it.

Chris

heres one of mine

nice, i like your  style, am looking for more examples of your work. these are similar to some of my stuff.   Hi  there eggwelder  glad you like my style i will post a couple got more but i think thats enough at the moment  thank you 

Chris

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Mainly to give the blade a better shape ,

but later on i think the trapper found a use  hooking  there traps out using the notch .

Chris

Fine work Chris, as usual...

Hi there Whirly thanks mate appreciate .

Chris

Nice work Chris

 

 Where's mine i'll have one of each on the tab

 

John :)

Come down  and pic one Jocko

Chris

One wrap and weld others slit and drift.raw hide wraps ,brass studs, horse hair , Deer,and  beading 

slit and drift from 1 inch coil .bleeding heart cut outs.

Im with Steve on this all the way  anytime you spark any steel used in knife or tool making

you have destroyed it integrity .

Chris 

Ilawarra is  closing , not too happy but not much we can do .

Chris

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Hey Chris, awesome job! How do these hold up on a torture test? How do you heat treat them?

Hi Scrap rat thats a pretty wide open question there  .

i think most of us know you can splt rock apart with wooden wedges so

you main object is to get that fire weld real good .,

i normaly weld the eye a few times to make sure you dont have a week spot

up around your eye .if you do you will find it will open when you drive your tapered tear drop  haft in . 

Harden like you would a normal axe

cutting edge leave main body realitively soft .temper back to what your after .the life of any tool is in the hardening and tempering

thanks Scrap rat

Chris

Whenever I see beautiful work it KILLS me that I'm not beating metal yet!

Hi Adambieber .im sure you will be soon lots of luck and look forward  to see some of your work soon

Chris.

Hi   Hi Dave quick pick from top side of one for you and taken a pic with a few together as well hope you like .

Chris

Nice.

Hi 2Tim215  glad you like  thanks mate .

Chris

Nice work. Please don't tell me you did all 4 in one day??????

Will you post a couple pics of the eye from the top please?

Thanks and great job!

Dave

Hi Dave nah had other stuff to do  as well mate .

got pic from bottom , when i get time i will take one from top for you

thanks Dave.

Chris

What process did you do to make the eye?  The hawks I've made were slit punched then drifted.  I'm assuming they're forged welded though seems like it could get tricky.

Hi Dan C i do use both process mate heres a couple of pix of both ways.

all i did with the rasp was heat up a bit to get rust and stuff.off wire brush then fire weld  and put another piece of file in for the cutting edge ,

The  other is slit and drift from 1 inch coil spring

Chris

That's beautiful work.

H there Mudman,thank you very much .

Chris

nice ChrisJohn

the knife has a small pattern on one side and big pattern on the other.  is that from the original file teeth, coarse on one side and fine on the other?  the large pattern looks cool. 

Hi bikecopXXX yes mate your right cource and finer opp sides thank you .

Chris

Yes Chris, definitely looks reptilian.

Will have to see if I can get my hands on a farriers rasp or heavy duty wood rasp and have a go at that. 

Hi Whirly i look forward to see your work thanks mate.

Chris

Great work Chris, per usual. Always enjoy looking at your stuff. That's a pretty cool effect you got on the knife blade mate. Like it all alot.....

Hi Whirly thanks mate , looks a bit snakey looking i think  after i made the sheath i thought i should have use snake skin instead

oh well next time ,appreciate and thanks for likeing my work .

Chris

You got me drooling!  Those are awesome!!!

Hi DanC.

Thank you very much realy appreciate .

Chris

Very nice work really like the snake skin on the handle.  What kinds of skin is it

Hi postleg  not realy sure it was given to me with a few other skins

glad you like  thank you.

Chris

Hi found some old rasps laying around the shed so i decided to forge out a couple

of hawks , Used spotted gum for hafts and wraped with raw hide , not much cleaning up on these

had enough to make a rasp kife as well hope you like .

Chris

Wow, beautiful   :wub:

 

What are the weight Chris?

 

And thanks for sharing  :)

 

mohd

Hi mond

Thank you for your nice comment , havent done that been buzy making some from so

old rasps i found laying around the shed ,i will have to get around to it after i finnish these couple off 

thanks.

Chris

Beautiful!

Hi Adambieber.

Thank you glad you like my work .

Chris

DSW is right buye sole leather already compresed hard as XXXX wont move on you 

not like some other leathers  they keep compressing

Chris