Any pictures of a "stick-hafted" Axe/Tomahawk?

[Macchina]

I like the idea of taking an axe head camping and carving an impromptu handle for it. I would imagine this could be done quite well in 20 minutes or so. Has anyone done this? What wood did you use and how did it work? Do you have a picture?

Note: this would be dune purely for fun, not to actually save the 8oz that the handle weighs...

 

[A_T_WorkHorse]

Check this out:
http://woodtrekker.blogspot.com/2011/03/best-chopping-tool-hatchet-vs-tomahawk.html

 

[Square_peg]

Good thread! I like this idea. It would be even better if our axes/hatchets were fitted with removable wedge systems. After all, what's the point of being able to field-haft your hatchet if you're unable to remove the broken haft?

I've posted pics of such a removable wedge system before. I have planned to post a WIP of hafting a hatchet on such a system. And I've been toying with the idea of a bushcraft adze-function haft for this removable haft system. This thread has given me some motivation to keep going with these ideas.

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

French and Italian axes and mauls traditionally have a "tomahawk eye" rather than being wedged, but they have true axe geometry.

 

[ginshun]

Might not be quite what you had in mind, as this was made in my garage, with a rasp and sand paper, not out in the woods, but it did start as a stick. This is a piece of maple that was a part of the fence around my garden for about 5 or 6 years. I saved it when I took the fence down, but it was so dense and solid that it seemed like too nice of a piece of wood to burn in the campfire. I got a new H&B Forge tomahawk last week, so here it is.

 

[Wolf_1989]

That IS pretty

 

[doc trinidad]

very nice grain as well