handle inquiry for vector001?

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demoteamone

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Vec, do you know if this handle will works on the eco hawk? Do you have Similar ideas for the eco hawk?


Thanks:)

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my buddies actually designed that one.

the handle is just (high quality) squashed steel tube - not sure what the alloy type is, but it is the same as went on the Hoffman Hawkin Stick IIRC.

the ECO can go on anything with a 3/16" clearance - sorry to be late on the YouTube videos on the hafting subject, i've been having babies this week. (Kate was born on Fathers Day).

i'd just find a nice piece of wood that i liked and mill a slot in the top (or mill a flat spot on the side.) and drive a 1/4" screw or nail through one or two of the provided slots and holes.

add cordage and maybe a seat with some Marine Weld, etc. and you can have a damn good handle pretty darn quickly.

those attachment measures might seem a little crude to some here, but ECOs were designed to be field serviceable, so their minimalist nature is part of its intent.

thanks for asking.

if i didn't have so much composites around, i'd go get a nice long axe handle and watch some manly-man movies while i shaved it down to a nice poll hawk haft for the ECO... maybe put a reinforced hole in the butt that could accept a hammer chisel... let your imagination go nuts ...that's my favorite part to the ECOs.

i really want to make sort of a mace/aztec fighting stick with a pair of ECOs - they are designed to be mounted along the spine as well as through the waist, after all. - i really want to develop some "just for me" stuff too, like using an ECO in harpoon mode on tuna or white sea bass when i am out spearfishing - i think that could be good....

......

i will probably have an inexpensive composite handle for the ECO shortly, i've just been swamped making some long term decisions about the humble Hawk Project and got delayed a little - i'm trying to avoid painting myself in a corner.

i'll make sure and announce when we make the ECO hafts, and most folks who have bought one will probably get an e-mail from Saint Erica for a heads-up.

although i think that the ECO hafts will be welcomed, i think it is important that folks really bang away and do their own thing on the ECOs - it's a Thinking Man's Tool - once you get in that "I can just do it myself" form of reflexive improvisation, you will be a lot happier in the wilderness IMHO.

damn, i said "wilderness" - now i am jonesing to put a shaft through a bird....


lookwhatyadid.

:cool::thumbup:

vec
 
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demoteamone said:
I find it strange that this product is show up on the magazin, but no up date on Tops home page.
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yeah, well, that's the reality of manufacturing; - i happen to be a classically-trained sculptor and watercolor photo-realist, but you wouldn't know it by looking at my website.

there just isn't enough time to do things optimumly, if you want to make money in this vicious business.

i thought you'd like some insight.

HTH.

*edited to add - the ECO just went up on the New Items Section of TOPS' website, so maybe this other tool is up now too, just as we speak.

vec
 
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