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SlopFoot

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I just received a package from the Polaris Trading Company today.
Opened it up, and laying on the desk in front of me is my custom polled-head oversize Warhawk. For lack of a better name I call it
the Warbeast. Whether it's chopping or whopping, slicing or smashing, everything about this design says "Ready for business."
The man we know as Two Hawks does great work. :cool:
I just had to post something immediately. More to follow. :)
 
I am currently waiting for my second hawk from Two Hawks - he posted it earlier in the week. The first one that I have is the Military option on the Warhawk.

My new one will be the first example of the Recon hawk - picture to follow!!

Regards,

Ed
 
Here you go a couple of examples of the mans work.

The top hawk is the Military as listed on the website.
The bottom is called the Recon hawk and is a custom version of the Voyageur hawk. The main changes are the military finish as a few more sharp bits :)

For size purposes, the knife is my CQC6 daily carry.

As ever Two Hawks work is excellent.

Regards,

Ed
 

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Just way to cool looking...
I like the cord wrap on the handles and that camo on the top,makes them look really cool.
Bruce
 
SlopFoot sent me some pix showing his Recon hawk, aka Warbeast, from several different angles. He said it would be OK for me to share them here so...
 

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DanceswithKnives,

Take a good look at these two Recons from TwoHawks - according to the letter I got from him there will be no more as he is working on his backlog and standard items. But there is no harm in asking.

Regards,

Ed
 
Today's project is dealing with what appears to be a lot of interest in the polled-head Voyageur-based oversize version of a Military Warhawk. I did a couple of them for Ed Moses and Slopfoot and it seems other folks like them too. Have gotten some e-mails about making more of the same.
A bit of background .... I am way behind on making stuff. I have neglected contributing to the Forum. It was hard enough to keep up a few years ago but my health started to slip. Some of it was pretty obvious (lungs and heart) but that still did not explain a lot of the other nasty stuff. My eye doctor caught it and the blood test proved (undetected for 3 years) myasthenia gravis which screws with my muscles big time and has trashed my strength and endurance increasingly for quite a while. So I am working like a 70-year-old guy and thanks very much for your patience. I'm up to about a 9-month waiting list now.
Ed likes to call the thing a "recon hawk" which was the original tentative name on the design when the master head was made. The original plan, which I discussed with Kim Breed of BLADE Magazine and other former nasty-operations folks, was to make something with some interchangeable threaded poll inserts including a carbide-tipped Kevlar penetrator. Kim sent me some good information on how to make that particular attachment. Unfortunately, I could never find a good source of carbide tipped drill rod to make the attachment.
Fortunately the master head was designed so that the casting from the mold made from that head could be machined into other hawks. One of those was the Voyageur; the smaller ones were the Longhunter and the Woodsman which now share their own master head and mold. The custom hawk made for Ed and Slopfoot is essentially a Voyageur with Warhawk fighting edges, and a full military finish, handle, wrap etc. just like a Military Warhawk. It "fights" like a Warhawk and cuts timber and pounds stakes like a Voyageur.
It is really a prototype for what I would call (in military parlance) the "Axe, Hand, Multipurpose" and for a "popular" name I rather like what Slopfoot came up with as "Warbeast" is pretty descriptive of this big bastard and recognizes that it is NOT a production of what Kim Breed and I discussed as the "Recon" hawk. That one ain't been made yet.
Thanks to all for your patience and your continuing faith in high quality traditional edged tools. As many of you have discovered they work better.
Best regards,
TWO HAWKS
http://www.2hawks.net
 
Just looked at my post ... somebody is surely going to jump on "molds" and "castings" and have a question so I will save time and answer it right now.
Just like Remington and Winchester do for rifle parts I use high quality investment castings for raw materials for machining and grinding my hawk heads. I get custom pours in 6150 vanadium steel (which my metallurgist and I decided was the right metal and which is used for making steel-stamping tools and gun springs). I have found a lot of advantages in working from castings and have a LOT cleaner metal to work with than I used to when I used forgings. And it saves some time as they are a bit closer to the shape I want since I made the master heads used for the custom molds.
These are NOT the spray-painted unsharpened pot-metal castings that some folks visualize when they think of "cast tomahawk heads" and I wish somebody would outlaw importation of that kind of crap.
They also are not the better-quality spray-painted sharpened or unsharpened castings hydraulic-pressed into rough handles which are sold by some of the major retailers. I used to use some of those as raw materials until they started pouring them in 410 stainless steel which I do not consider to be a traditional material .... I use only carbon steel alloys for anything I make. So I'm old fashioned. So what. I am old enough to be opinionated.
Hope this information answers your inevitable questions.
Best regards,
TWO HAWKS
http://www.2hawks.net
 
Anything worth having is worth waiting for...anything worth doing is worth doing right. (Please) keep up the fine work Sir!
 
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