tantofolder Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Here is my first tomahawk.It's made from a rail spike.I made the the drift for it myself from a piece of a pinch bar(dang that steel is tough) which started out as 1" diameter.I made it teardrop shaped.I still cant remeber how I got my one photo on here so here's a link:http://s1087.photobucket.com/albums/j476/tantofolder/?action=view¤t=railspiketomahawk.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewed Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Wow! I assume that the spike is the pointy end, and the blade is the "head" end? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshua.M Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 wow! very impressive especcialy for a first try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerry p. Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 It looks good I like the shape of the spike. Jerry P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfootnampa Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Nice job you did! I think you need to graduate to some larger hunks of steel. That's as nice as any I have seen from a spike! Very well proportioned! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewed Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 That is really nice! How big is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tantofolder Posted December 10, 2011 Author Share Posted December 10, 2011 Thanks guys, I am unsure of its length.....I donated it to iron in the hat at my blacksmith meeting today. Thanks bigfootnampa,yeah I think I am done with rail spikes at least for right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old South Creations Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 nice looking tomahawk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaughnT Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 That's some good-looking work! I usually dread looking at 'railroad spike' work but I'm glad I stopped in here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenny Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Real Nice!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thom Noblitt y Gonzalez Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 After readding this post I happened to come across this video and felt it might be relevent. It appears to be a demo where the presenter even went as far as to forge weld in a peice of 1095 for the edge material. I had herd of railroad spike knives but hadn't thought of tomahawks before. After seening your work and this video I guess they can be done. I was wondering though how did you do your spike? It looks like you took the edges down to form the spike since you have those flate edges along the side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peter64 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Very nice tomahawk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longhunter Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 I think you did a very nice job looks great . That video was nice adding the 1095 cutting edge to it was good idea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tantofolder Posted April 14, 2012 Author Share Posted April 14, 2012 Thom ,Sorry for the late response(I have not been here in a while).For the spike,I drew out the tapered end and twisted it behind the "eye".Then I used a spring fuller between the "eye" and the spike to make the diameter smaller.A little file work to clean it up and it was done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macbruce Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 I'm with Vaughn, Anything with a rr in the heading usually dissolves my interest but I'm glad I did. That's really slick!.....Your first?? Come on.... Really?...... B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwisatz Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Thanks for sharing that. I may try one soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tantofolder Posted April 19, 2012 Author Share Posted April 19, 2012 Yep,my first one.I had done a lot of reading first though on techniques(here and elsewhere).Before this I had made 2 rail spike knives,and 1 leaf spring knife. Here are the spike knife links:http://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/24255-rail-spike-knife/http://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/24636-rail-spike-kukri/ With so much much work involved start to finish, I plan to move onto better material in the future(if I ever have free time again :unsure: ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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