Hammering the eye for a tomahawk.

If you wish to chisel the hole,the trick is to chisel half way through on one side and then flip it over and chisel through.Then use your drift to enlarge the hole.
 
The drifts are tapered to allow the user to pick how large the hole is drifted to. The hole shape is a teardrop shape. They are often sold in a set of two drifts to allow drifting eyes from mouse hawks to full size war hawks and camp axes. Properly cared for ,a set will last a lifetime. They occasionally show up at tail;gate sales at blacksmith events, and Ebay always has them.
Stacy
 
DrThunder88 said:
Are there standardized dimensions and shapes for tomahawk and axe eyes?
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Here ya go Dr.

In the warmer months, a couple buddies and I hunt Copper Culture Artifacts with metal detectors. Every so often one of us will hit on an old Trade Hawk. Here are some tracing's I did of a foldover mid size hawk that was dug up a couple summers ago :thumbup: :thumbup:

This should give you at least a base to work from :)

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I wanted to add, in the last pic you can clearly see the taper in the drifted eye. The tracing of the top & bottom of the eye also show the size difference. FWIW, each square on the grid paper represents ~ 1/4".

To clarify, the top of the eye (the larger side of the taper) would be the side we would drive a wedge into on a new axe or hatchet handle. The bottom (the smaller side of the taper) would be the side your hand would be closest to when gripping the handled hawk.

I hope this helps any who want to make a little Hawk like this ;)


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