Here are a couple of 'hawks I made. I enjoy forging as well as all types of metal work. One 'hawk was made from a rr spike using the spike head as the cutting edge of the 'hawk. It was hardened with superquench. Handle was made from a broken baseball bat (ash?) The other was reforged from a ball pein hammer. I reformed the eye with a mandrel I bought from Centaur Forge. Quenched in oil......tempered in the oven. I carved the handle from a branch off the cherry tree. ;)My wife teases me about cooking metal in the home oven.:D

Those are really good looking hawks. I like the rough finish.
After 15 years of marriage, my wife has quit teasing and just shakes her head at my perceived weirdness nowadays. :rolleyes:

I've already laid claim to our old kitchen stove that we are replacing with an older one this weekend---it has *2* ovens and one working burner so I can make hot tea in the shop whilst tempering different pieces!

Nice Hawks I really Like the 2nd one allot ! Several years ago I bought a toaster oven at the 2nd hand store, it lives in the shop. The SWMBO never appreciated me walking into the house with smoking dripping metal objects wearing my dirty boots... I wonder why ?

Jens

Cool looking hawks! Very precise work, I like the technique

Nice work, medieval. The second is my favorite.