got a tomahawk as a gift - what is it?

[maddawg308]

Got this several years back from a good friend. I know nothing about tomahawks, though I did own a Vietnam tomahawk replica made by Cold Steel a while back. This one looks like a thrower, I am not familiar with the make and model - one side of the cast steel head is marked "M&W Canada" and the other is marked "Black Hawk". Finish is crappy black paint over bare steel. The handle is not very worn but has damage where someone threw a few errant tosses and hit something. The head is not too dinged, but not sharp either. Handle is about 18.5 inches in length.

Not into throwing tomahawks, I have no time or patience to really learn the art of it. However, I might want to fix this up and modify it into a faux-American Indian-styled tomahawk, maybe with some work on the handle and after removing the paint and taking a grinder to the head, it might look pretty good in that role. Have any of you did something along those lines with this model of tomahawk?

The red circles show damage to the handle from errant tosses, I am assuming.

 

[Dirtbiker]

Yep, that's a throwing hawk for sure. New they are $35. Good hawk to practice throwing as not sharp and very tough steel. However not very hard so if sharpened it won't hold an edge. Keep it and have fun.

 

[BG_Farmer]

Try this:

http://www.crazycrow.com/mm5/mercha...t_Code=4934-121-074&Category_Code=842-100-000

Really hopeless to keep a throwing axe handle nice. That looks like a decent one that might do light camp duties, but they are really only great for throwing.

 

[300Six]

Looks to me to be entirely a cheap steel casting and therefore not endowed with blade quality for anything more than cursory tapering. But boy oh boy it's made in Canada!

 

[maddawg308]

Thanks for the info, guys. I decided to sell the tomahawk head, it was picked up within an hour of posting on eBarf for $7.95, so it's going to a new home. I wouldn't have been a great owner of it anyways, like I said I just don't have the time to learn the art of throwing tomahawks, so perhaps the new owner will appreciate it more. The handle, which was damaged, I kept for scrap material or a new handle source for a hammer, who knows what I'll use it for in the future.

 

[Square_peg]

Looks to me to be entirely a cheap steel casting and therefore not endowed with blade quality for anything more than cursory tapering.

It's surely cast. You can tell by the raised lettering. Cast steel can be quite good depending on the alloy and heat treat. But I bet you're right about the quality of that one.

 

[Pakowhai]

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