Yes wrought is a little different buddy told me to work it at a very high heat if wanting to shape and moving a lot of metal or he said it can come apart so he has more experience at this then me so I worked like he said .
Just kinda wanted to do a as forged type look I like the rustic look dont know how highly polished the furtrade hawks and axes would have really been but they would have functioned just fine.
I had found a website with viking artifacts and they had some different axes a few looking close to what ive forged
That is a good find I got a smaller colombian vise 10 yr ago for 15.00 at a sale and walked out to my truck and guy walking past said I stole it but you did very well for that size vise thats for sure.
Im wondering if you could get a brad point wood bit long enough to try, the point of bit and the way it cuts may work http://www.traditionalwoodworker.com/3_16-Extra-Extra-Long-Quality-Brad-Point-Bit-Germany_US/productinfo/888-0707/
Looks nice i like it dont know about the carbon content in older ones it's possible I guess I was always told that the carbon is lower in the spikes then what people really think worst case is you need to sharpen more often
Yes I need to improve how I move metal with my hammer also I looked at the strap I used its more 1/4" so thicker material would be of some help to provide some mass in the cutting edge area. I have done some reading a smith that does a lot of hawks says to use 3/8"x2" and fuller the area down that wraps around the handle to 1/4" then the thicker area gives you the mass you need. I didnt real have a welding problem but I did have a problem with the 5160 wanting to slide out when I started to tap the side around to hold it in place to start the welding need to cut the some barbs out of it or use a rough rasp .
I made this hawk my first and its not finished of course It's a work in progress made of a wrought iron support strap 1-1/2" wide and 5/16" thick that was salvaged with a cutting bit of 5160 cutting edge is 2-1/2" length is 7". I have used no powers tools to work this so far
Hi all made my first tomahawk wrought iron body with 5160 cutting bit needs more work cleaned up , now it aint pretty but was wondering if anyone has used any of the Laurel Mtn browning solution on wrought and what kind of results did you all have?