Fighting Hammer Hawk

Greg Covington

Greg Covington

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I forged this hawk from a rusty bricklayers hammer. It is sharpened all around the head.

Handle is osage

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Outstanding hawk Greg! Looks like the offspring of a LaGana vietnam hawk and a frontier hawk. Absolutely stunning piece of osage... best I've seen.
 
Wow! Beautiful handle. And the head looks unique too, with those curves. And that's one heck of a spike!!
 
Very Nice I'm not a hawk person but the more I see the awsome hawks you guys are making I may have to break down.
 
I'm with steelswing there. That is one sleek, unique hawk. I would be gloating all over swinging that thing. Rates extreme on the "niceness" scale. Kevin
 
Did you scorch the osage orange to bring out the colors like that? It looks very classy. If so, in your experience has it ever compromised the durability of the wood? Or is it just a surface coloration effect?
 
This is the first...and maybe last....hawk I have made. I have always had the LaGana hawk in mind.....I used to own one....and believe it or not....the hawk just kinda took that shape.

Robert: I scorch the osage to give that effect.....I have been told by bow makers that they can't do it on bows because it can weaken the wood.....however, it causes no problems with knife handles at all. I started noticing that the end grain would take color if I burned it on the grinder....so I took a torch to it and get this look.

Ed....email sent about the hawk

Thanks for the compliments!

Greg
 
Using a torch to slightly burn the bois d arc doesn't hurt it, it is the fires that uses convection heat (when held over a fire of coals), instead of a flame. I have used it for years on the bois d arc knife handles I made. It also seems to help keep it from turning brown over a long period of time. Then again, it could be I haven't left them out side for the sun to change. It does bring out the grain of the wood very well. The first time I used this process was when I was in Bible school (1957) and we did a log planter of pine. We used a small propane torch for that.
It is a very nice looking hawk, I started one last year out of a ball pein hammer and it is still hanging on the wall, far from being completed. I did get the hole drifted in though. :)
 
u just gave me the best idea for a hawk by using 1 of those hammer heads it ilimanates the need for forge welding and lots of hammering im starting mine asap
 
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