Thought I would post some photo's of a tomahawk I just finished. It is made from a 16oz ball pein the handle is oak. This is my 7th hawk and the first with the cut out in the blade. always apreciate feed back. thanks for looking.

Nice looking hawk. Did you hand hammer it or were you able to use a power hammer? That's a lot of hand hammering. Thanks for sharing. :)

No it's all hand work. I haven't got my $400 powerhamer running yet. I started an other head this afternoon Took a couple of hours but the new head is streched to a little over 12" not bad for a 3" 16oz hammer head,

nice job glad you posted it

Lovely job especially the finishing! The curve on the spike seems a bit deep for use as a spike but great for use as a hook to draw things closer.

Very nice looking. How did you achieve the patina if you don't mind my asking?

Mark

Very nice looking. How did you achieve the patina if you don't mind my asking?

Mark

I used birchwood casy's plumb brown. It's used for browning muzzle loader barrels. Easy to use

The handle is burned with a torch and then I use toung oil.

great work and the detail is fantastic how on earth did you do the cross in the end so neatly its finished so well thank you for the pictures very cool mate :)

great work and the detail is fantastic how on earth did you do the cross in the end so neatly its finished so well thank you for the pictures very cool mate

The cross in the blade was done by drilling 5 holes one on each end and one in the middle. I then took an old chisle and ground it flat and sized it to go between the hole on the cross end to the center. Then got the head hot and used the chisle to punch the cross out. I finished it with a small file.

I never would have guessed someone could have drawn out the hammer head so far....very nice indeed...