Cool Rebar Tomahawk..(pic)

Bruce Evans · May 22, 2002

This was a cool project,It was forged from a piece of 3/4 inch 60 grade rebar..The rebar worked great for this,It hardened very nicely and took a great temper..Lot's of material for these laying around.
I even sharpened the Hawks beak on this one...The eye was hot cut through then drifted,nice and thick eye walls...
Any comments.
Bruce

Bruce Evans · May 22, 2002

Oh yea,What do you think of the new Business cards Ebbtide did for me,They are two sided and the other side looks like a deck of playing cards with my flame t-shirt design on it..I think they are cool...
Bruce

Jimbo · May 22, 2002

Now I'm curious - I thought rebar was very low carbon?
It certainly is a beautiful piece of work!

Bruce Evans · May 22, 2002

What I was told about Rebar is that the 60 grade is carbon,not sure what the content is but it does harden...
the 40 grade is not good for knives..
the no grade is a 50-50 shot as it is just everything in the mix,it is good sometimes and not others..That is why I stick with the 60 grade..Raymond Richards over on CKD uses the rebar for Bowie knives with great results.
So far I like it as a Hawk als

ne thing about it the steel is readily available..
Bruce

Blades · May 25, 2002

Nice.

Blades

simmonsk · May 25, 2002

Great Hawk!

What do you use to drift the head? I want to try with an old hammer I found by the road. Thanks, Ken

Bruce Evans · May 26, 2002

I use a drift that i bought from Centaur Forge..Here is a link that will show you how to make a hawk from a R X R Spike and he tells how to make the cutters and drifts for the eyes.
http://www.anvilfire.com/iForge/tutor/spikeaxe/top_index.htm
Good luck and have fun with this project.We want to see pictures when you are done..
Bruce

simmonsk · May 26, 2002

Thanks. Will do...Ken

Cliff Stamp · May 27, 2002

Any chance of a top down shot to show the head profile?

-Cliff

Bruce Evans · May 27, 2002

I will try and get you a top down shot as soon as I can..
Bruce