E.D.S.Bowie and Tomahawk set in Osage Orange(pic)

Bruce Evans

Bruce Evans

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I finally got to take pictures of the last things I have gotten finished.This set was ordered as a set,I think that it turned pretty good,What do you think...This Hawk is the first one that I have done by hot cutting the starting hole for the drift to go through and is made from one solid piece of 5160,It was just to cool doing it.
I have one I am almost done with and will post pictures of it tonight or tomorrow,it is just a quick skinner I did to help get my eye back but i think it will look good.
Bruce
 
Now that's a duo for the wilderness,bet some frontiersman would have given a couple of eye teeth for these beauties.
Regards, Greg
 
That's some pair!
And a heck of a warm-up ;)
Thanx for the happy momment,
Ebbtide
 
Bruce your use of Bois D' Arc, "Bodark" to us native Texicans, or osage orange brings out a lot of memories from when I was a young man and we used a lot of it for home made bows ala Comanche style. I plan on using some eventually on a bowie and giving it to my brother.
 
Bruce, you are the man, those are AWESOME! I love the color of the osage orange -- I have a chunk of truck, maybe I'll have to get into it one of these days, that's really a nice color. (Start watching for "How Do You Resaw Tree Trunk?" posts. :D )

Your wrap on the 'hawk is just right. From now on, they won't look right to me unless they look like that. That's a feeling a Jerry Fisk bowie gave lo these many years ago, and I haven't felt since. Thank you. This week I needed something "just right" like that.

Dave
 
Bruce,

Nice job,its a lot of fun playing with the hawks.Did you split first with a chisel and then use your drift with lots of grease.I like doing it that way, but getting that cotton picken hole centered and even can really be a pain in the butt.
I don't mean to critize because both pieces are really nice,but I've made several hawks with osage orange handles, osage orange will last forever, looks great and won't hardly rot. But for a throwing hawk its to brittle, it just won't take the abuse. I would break the handles out, after just a few throws. So I went to red oak.You can take a piece of red oak or hickory and cut it close to your finished size, drop it into a bucket of used motor oil for about a week then leave it set in the sun for 3or 4 days, shape and fit to hawk and you can't hardly break them, The motor oil mades them flexible enough that they will take the shock, I guess. But it works.

Bill
 
Thanks for all the kind words here also.
I wasn't sure how the O.O. would hold up as a handle for the hawk,But that is what my customer asked for on both pieces so that it made a matching set.I guess that I should have made him a backup handle from some curly maple that I have on hand...
Yes I did split the round bar with a chisel first then run the drift through the hole.I also agree that it is tough to keep it all straight,in fact this one isn't perfect,It wioll probably take me a bunch to ever real good with them.This was the second one that I did this way but the first one was small and I had the hole really crooked and not in line.So it is going to become a test hawk in my buddies hunting gear.
Bruce
 
Hey Bruce

Most hawks has hickory handles.
Curly Maple is nice but don`t
make a good handle (it`s mainly
for show). Just my 2cents:)
 
And with my favorite wood as well!!!!
Bois D'Arc although beaautiful and springy just doesn't work well with some applications, but I can't see that 'Hawk being thrown.:D
Leave that to the beaters IMO.:)
 
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