Dial the time machine back a couple hundred years! ( hawk content )

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Lets take a trip back a couple hundred years to the magical era of Flintlocks and Tomahawks!
This is my newest creation, a Tomahawk built to customers specs with a few add ons for his patience!
7" total length of the head
3.25" blade width
Hickory haft is 18.5" total
Weeping Heart cut out
a bunch of center punching
Leather wrap hand grip

The gun is a CVA St Louis Hawken Flintlock which I bought this year and used to harvest 4 deer. I shoot 87.5 grains of Goex FFF black powder, my own cut patches and a hornady round ball. This combination gives me under 1.250 groups at 50 yards off the bench!!


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Hey Ron! Your pictures are a sight for sore eyes! Thank God the hunting has slowed down & you're back in the shop!:) That is one nice 'hawk...care to let us in on that head finish? That 'hawk looks like it means business! Somebody is going to be very happy.
 
I'm with Keith. . .it does look like marble. Very cool !

I "almost" bet that it's some kinda acid wash.

Me likes !
 
Thanks for the great coments. Gouge has it right, it is a mustard finish. First time I`ve ever done one and I think it turned out great!
 
First off that Tomahawk is very cool.

Mustard??? Whadda ya mean mustard? How the heck do you do this finish? It's really cool!

Thanks,
Sean
 
LOL...Well thatnks for all the great coments! The hawk is definiely cool, although not exactly my favorite shape but cool non the less!
Well I don`t know where or how I thought of the mustard treatment, I just all of a sudden thought that mustard might give a cool look to it...never thought it would be this cool. I think it came from Wayne goddards article on mustard which I never thoroghly read.
I just finished the hawk to 400 grit then squirted some mustard all over it then slapped it with a finger till all the steel was covered. Some places it was thick, some thin. I then left it in the kitchen sink and went for a drive to look for some coyotes to shoot, about 2 hours later I returned to see the entire hawk was a black thick guncky looking thing. I thought to myself that I may have just ruined it untill I began to wipe the junk away and reveal it`s true identity. The shinier spots are where the mustard was thick.
 
Mustard has been used to make some of my favorite blade finishes. I have never seen one that turned out like this. It looks great.
 
Thanks for the info Ron. It's a very cool finish for sure!

Mustard, I never would have thought that one up.

Sean
 
Excellent design on the head, nice chunky shape to it. And the finish is great. Very nice work, as usual!
 
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