FT: Hatchet and Machetes

[JNieporte]

I have a few miscellaneous things for trade. The first two are machetes.

Ontario (Old Hickory) 14" Butcher's Knife. Yes, they call it a butcher's knife.

14" long blade, 1095 carbon steel. Handle is light-colored hickory and is secured with three brass compression rivets. I've drilled a lanyard hole and added a simple lanyard, convexed the edge to paper-slicing sharpness, sanded the handles, and did a filing job on the spine where the back half of the spine is rough and the half towards the tip is smooth to use as a draw knife. The machete has never been used.

In hand...

I'm including a Cold Steel Panga Machete sheath, as it's the only sheath I own that will reasonably fit a 14" blade of this shape.

The next one is an Okapi (South Africa) machete. Blade is 16" long, black-coated carbon steel. Handle is orange nylon with a lanyard hole, and a simple lanyard is included.

I convexed the edge, but nothing else was done to the machete. The machete has never been used. There are a few spots where the coating is starting to come off, but no rust. I'm including a standard black nylon 18" machete sheath.

Continued below due to photo upload limitations.

I also have a new Level III Assault pack for trade in this thread...
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=739467



I ship via USPS (post office) Priority Mail insured with Delivery Confirmation, and I request that you do the same thing. Thanks for looking

 

[JNieporte]

I also have an Oxhead hatchet head. This is for the head only, not the entire hatchet. It's shown on a 14" long handle for reference of what it can be, and is a 1-1/4 pound head. The cutting edge is 4" long and the length (blade to poll) is 5-3/4". The head is 7/8" thick at its thickest and the eye is 11/16" wide by 1-3/4" long (in the center). The height of the cheek is 1-1/2"

This was going to be a project hatchet, but my handle source went under so now I'm stuck with it. I've stripped the head (this photo was taken during the stripping process) and now it's entirely bare and shiny. I've been told this head was made by Collins, but apart from the stamping below, the hatchet is void of markings.

I convexed the edge and smoothed it out. A forced mustard patina was applied, but then I decided to remove it. The hatchet is unused and has no rust; the spots on the photo are just from when I took photos during the finishing process.

In hand...

(Again, the head is bare and shiny now. Photos were taken during the stripping process.)

The head right before final polish...

From the top...

View from the bottom...

I smoothed out the eye a little bit, but it still has enough bite to keep it on the handle of your choosing...

What I'm Looking For:
Tomahawks of any brand, as long as they're reasonable quality. Cold Steel, etc.
I'm most interested in "tactical" tomahawks, but am open to just about anything you have.