Howdy,

I found some plans online for a tomahawk when I was rooting around. This is my attempt thus far, I have finished the rough figure, but I still have to drift it open for the handle and clean up the shape. Tell me what you think, and any advice on drifting it would be welcome, as this will be my first attempt at doing so.

I started with a run of the mill RR spike


Then I cut the point off


Next I upset the end to allocate the necessary metal to form the head, It was upset to about one inch square.


I proceeded to fuller the head out.


I continued to fuller it with a vertical cross peen until I reached my present state.


I plan to use a punch to help start the drift for the handle, then clean up the form of the piece itself.

you can use a slitting chisle (search it) to make the gap, then spread it with a punch or a wider chisle, then drift with a tomahawk drift and draw the chheks out

I had already made a slit chisel, and I was going to make a drift to open up the eye.