Hawk Head Orientation Question

jeremy1517

jeremy1517

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I have a question for you all that kinda makes me feel stupid.

I received a Hawk today and I can't tell if the hawk head is upside down or has the correct orientation. It looks upside down to me.

My friend picked it up from a blacksmith at a reenactment rendezvous and it supposed to be correct for whatever time period they were doing. It has a sinew wrap with Bison hair weaved through it along the spine and black bear hair dangling from the head. I'd have too remove all that stuff to flip the head around.

I really don't care about the decorative stuff, I just want to use the hawk.

What's your thoughts on whether the head is on correctly or upside down.

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Alright, I took all the leather and hair stuff off and removed the head.

The eye is definitely smaller at one opening than the other. The only thing is I think the hawk had the correct orientation. As it shows in the picture, the bottom is smaller and the eye opening on the side with the greater swope of the blade edge has a larger eye opening.

Am I thinking correctly that the smaller opening should be on bottom and the larger opening on top?

This would mean the picture is correct and the hawk was made with a greater blade angle on the top of the Hawk.
Maybe the blacksmith messed up a bit.

Thoughts?
 
Sounds like it's so. You could fit the head on upside down (in terms of its current orientation) and drive a wedge in.
 
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