October 14, 20169 yr well guys i figured its been a while since ive posted anything so i thought id share some stuff ive made in the last few weeks. the one is a small spike hawk made from a 1 1/4 wrench with a welded in bit of 5160 (anyone know what steel the wrenches are made from?) the second is a hatchet/hawk i made from a wagon wheel and a piece of 5160 for the bit. this one gave me a bit of trouble because i may or may not have melted the eye trying to weld it, this was my first attempt at an asymetric weld. i then had to weld in more wagon wheel to get enough material to weld the eye.i used the spoke from the wagon wheel as the handle for this one and proceeded to work it down with a spoke shave to make it a little smaller. im surprised with how well it turned out just because of how old the wheel is (not sure why the one picture is sideways i tried rotating it)
October 14, 20169 yr They both look really good shape wise but i would really like to see more pictures up close of the wagon wheel hawk. Id like to see up close of where you had to fix the melted portion, most people when they melt the steel they toss the piece so i would like to see one that had been fixed.
October 14, 20169 yr I just recently saw a video of a guy making a hawk from a wrench on YouTube and thought it could be a cool projects if I had a wrench that big fall in my lap lol. They look good but close ups would definitely be nice.
October 24, 20169 yr Author On 10/14/2016 at 9:27 AM, Dustin Quade said: They both look really good shape wise but i would really like to see more pictures up close of the wagon wheel hawk. Id like to see up close of where you had to fix the melted portion, most people when they melt the steel they toss the piece so i would like to see one that had been fixed. unfortunately i dont have any more photos atm but all i did was cut off just past the melted part and forge weld what was left (along with some more WI) back together and drew it back out. since i was trying to weld asymmetrically instead of doing the "butterfly method" as i like to call it, this was easier to fix vs if i would have burned an entire half of the hawk
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