Robert Mayo Posted February 26, 2010 Share Posted February 26, 2010 I wanted a small hawk for splitting kindling so this is what i decided to make. Forged from a wrought iron wagon wheel with a piece of a file for a bit. The head is 4" across with a 3" edge. This wrought has more silica or slag than i have ever seen in wrought iron. Thanks for looking and your comments. Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfootnampa Posted February 26, 2010 Share Posted February 26, 2010 That iron looks pretty normal from my stock. You did a real nice job with it though and with the welded bit it should work well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 26, 2010 Share Posted February 26, 2010 Wagon tyre is often Merchant Bar, (Bloom => Muck Bar => Merchant Bar => Singly Refined => Doubly Refined => Triply Refined...), and as such is often preferred by blademakers for fittings as it has more "character". Back in the day they would generally try to use better stuff to avoid character...changes in style and how we perceive stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentiron1946 Posted February 26, 2010 Share Posted February 26, 2010 That blade has lots of "character", nice job! B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterbear Posted February 26, 2010 Share Posted February 26, 2010 great little hawk! can you tell us how you did this one? ie. slitted and drifted or wrapped ect ect Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Mayo Posted February 26, 2010 Author Share Posted February 26, 2010 Thanks for the comments guys. Winterbear i posted this on another forum. I cut pieces of wrought iron tire one about 8" long and two 3" and cut a 3" piece of an old file. Heated and wrapped the 8" piece around the horn of the anvil and allined the open ends together. Then forge welded the file inside the two 3" pieces of wrought placed it between the open ends of the first piece fluxed at red brought it up to welding temp and forged the whole thing together forged it down a bit then filed and ground to clean it up. I did not clean the rust off of anything at welding temp it gone. Most wrought iron has lots of layers in it ,this was just straight from the tire once you forge and grind it it usualy looks like this with a quick etch in ferric cloride. Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astygma Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 I wanted a small hawk for splitting kindling so this is what i decided to make. Forged from a wrought iron wagon wheel with a piece of a file for a bit. The head is 4" across with a 3" edge. This wrought has more silica or slag than i have ever seen in wrought iron. Thanks for looking and your comments. Bob looks great Bob, love the oily look n the iron! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyGeorge Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 Thanks for the tips on how you made this one, Bob. That's a nice looking hawk. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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