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vector001

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i need your help again, if i may so impose on the brethren here;

i've got this vectorized Norse Hawk, as you can see.
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my Teddy is a bad ass.
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it is very lovely the way it is IMHO, just a plain Army Green Head and OD Gen 1 Mk 4 handle.

these look great with paracord wraps.

should i leave it with just a coyote paracord wrap and lanyard?

or should i paint something on it before i seal it? - Flowers? - i could give it to my Mother in Law - might get the nasty end of it back though, she'll think i am calling her a Battle Axe, which this definitely is - we won't note her present condition...:D:thumbup:....

hmmm.

maybe a brother here has a good link to some Viking Symbology that i could vectorize on it.

any help would be appreciated, ...meanwhile, i will be in the Hawk Dungeon banging out more customs, i reckon.

thanks for any help,

vec
 
I know it wouldn't be historically accurate or anything (not like the synthetic handle!) but if you don't find anything better, I could see some Celtic stuff going up and down the handle.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

Oh- and I just wouldn't forgive myself if I didn't add-













NOW QUIT GETTING SO ARTSY-FARTSY AND SEND ME MY HAWK!!!! :D
 
MVF said:
I know it wouldn't be historically accurate or anything (not like the synthetic handle!) but if you don't find anything better, I could see some Celtic stuff going up and down the handle.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

Oh- and I just wouldn't forgive myself if I didn't add-













NOW QUIT GETTING SO ARTSY-FARTSY AND SEND ME MY HAWK!!!! :D
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you must be related to my lovely wife. :p


it's cookin', it's cookin, brother ...gotta let all those unstressed handle molecules do their chemical thing, is all.

:cool::thumbup:

vec
 
I like it just the way it is!!

It looks like a great no nonsense tool to me.

Ive been admiring your work for some time now, and I must say that your work is not just aesthetically pleasing but seems to be very functional as well.

Keep up the good work brother!!
 
That's a Mighty Fine looking Norse Hawk, I'd go simple and straight forward "Cuz It Look's Great like It Is but If you add the "coyote paracord wrap and lanyard" I think It'll look even better !
 
REKCUT said:
Ive been admiring your work for some time now, and I must say that your work is not just aesthetically pleasing but seems to be very functional as well.
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we try to add nothing that detracts from function - a lot of folks think the paracord is decoration, but it is not, that's just an aside - it serves as overstrike protection, as well as some other utilities, which are not as obvious.

if i put some sort of 3-D artwork on the hawks, its added mass would be placed in relation to, and would purposefully affect, the Center of Mass and Balance on the hawk;

the neat thing about that practice, other than "you can have your cake and eat it too," ...is that when you make something more functional via adornment, the beauty of the piece goes up in the eye of the beholder in an amplified way over the attractiveness of the artwork on its own.

that must be Synchronicity.

dunno, just something i have noticed, as a natural law of design....

Keep up the good work brother!!
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thanks, brother.

i love these discussions amongst peers - so much good, dense information.

"vinework" must've been the word i was missing....

thanks again.

vec
 
you guys are studs.

we gotta have a zombie-whackin' viking/savage stud party one of these days....

vec
 
What if you took old school to new school: instead of a leather overswing guard with rawhide lacing, use a kevlar (or other modern material) panel with gromets and paracord lacing.

Hmmm, I'm thinking of the newer deuce-and-a-half and half-ton covers that are like a rubber-fiber sandwich material in green or tan, super tough, flexible, and would give good shock protection if you grommeted about 2-4 layers into a guard. And if you bought one of those covers at a DRMO auction you'd be set through retirement :D But you might find something similar at a run-of-the-mill Army/Navy surplus store.

A coyote guard with coyote paracord would offset the green very nicely. Not very Norse, but badass in its own right.
 
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