Hey Y’all,

Just about finished up a little pipe tomahawk and was looking for some other opinions on it. 
It’s forged out of a ball peen hammer with a shovel handle tapered down. I’m wanting to darken the steel (blue?) and been looking into some ways to do it. I know you can buy chemicals to blue the steel but was wondering if there is any other ways, maybe to help keep it from rusting as well. 
Also I think I want to wrap some leather under the head, basically just because I think it looks cool, thoughts on that?

I would look into a traditional rust browning or  bluing process as both true to the item and not using strange chemicals.

I agree with Rust Bluing.  I use it a lot on gun parts.  It's so easy to do it's ridiculous.  Just time consuming and requires a little extra care keeping body oils off the metal.  I love the look myself.  A beautiful black.  I think it would look great on that hawk.

Chris

Thanks guys! I’ll try it out and post a photo when its all done!