Beautiful Cold Steel Rifleman's Hawk Mod. Pics & Tutorial Video. *Pic Heavy*

Musicmanstngry

Musicmanstngry

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Hey everybody! I just wanted to show a Rifleman's Hawk Mod I done for the Pastor of my local Church. I wanted to do something nice for Pastor Appreciation Month so I figured this would suffice!
I think it turned out pretty good! Below are some pics and a tutorial video I made. Let me know if you guys have any questions!

Here is the video, Pics are below it
[video=youtube;_ukyMAXY0WA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ukyMAXY0WA&list=UUhqeuImAeioOd9DJLid8Adw[/video]

Here is the outcome!



I stripped the head of the black coating.


I then added some file work to the head coated it with some super gun blue. After applying the gub blue I lightly sanded with 3000 grit sandpaper to bring out the pits in the head.


I added some Hawk Feathers (These were giving to me!)


I sanded the Shaft and drew my designs on with a pencil (inspired from the movie The Patriot) and the used my woodburning tool and traced over my pencil markings.


The sheath I got from www.walkbyfaith777.com It was only $20 and has my Pastors initials on it.




I used a few coats of special walnut then realized I was using the wrong stain. I then put one final coat of English Chesnut on it.
It came out a hybrid color but still looks decent. I then followed with 3 generous coats of spray polyurethane clear satin.
 
Wow, you packed a lot of interesting mods into one piece. Now I got the itch to do one too. I'm sure your pastor will love the hawk, and appreciate all the effort you put into this.:thumbup:
 
mwhich50 said:
Wow, you packed a lot of interesting mods into one piece. Now I got the itch to do one too. I'm sure your pastor will love the hawk, and appreciate all the effort you put into this.:thumbup:
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Thanks for the awesome comment man! Glad it inspired you to do one! They are super fun and relatively easy to do!

AR-Trvlr said:
FYI - hawk feathers, no matter the source, are illegal to own in the US unless you're native american.

http://www.blm.gov/id/st/en/prog/blm_special_areas/birds_of_prey_nca/links/raptor_possession.html
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That's what they say but oh well. Since I'm half native American maybe they won't care lol
 
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