Hawk Sheaths

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Menawa

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What is your favorite way of carrying your tomahawk when hiking in the woods? Does anyone manufacture good, practical sheaths? Does anybody out there have a good pattern or suggestions for making a sheath? I'm going to attempt making a few leather sheaths for my hawks, but just wondered what others have come up with. Thanks for your ideas.
Menawa
 
Please, oh please, someone reply to this. This is something I've wondered about as well for a while.
 
My completely unintelligent reply...I have several Wetterlings hatchets that came with leather sheaths. I intend to copy these sheaths, using better saddle grade leather, for my CS hawks. It should be pretty simple to reverse engineer the Wetterling sheaths for design. I would use some kind of rivet material to hold the edges together.

Anyway, this is on my "to-do" list for the near future. Just need to order some leather and rivets from Tandy. If I have any valuable insights after making these, I'll post. Otherwise, if someone has a better idea for hawk sheaths...please chime-in. I'd like to know too. :D

Jeff
 
www.ftturner.com makes awesome hawk sheaths although they are a little bit on the expensive side. @$25 plus.
My hawk sheaths are from Conococheague Trade Co. 717 352-7212. Call and ask what he can do for you. He is less expensive by about 10 bucks or so, but ask?
Some sheaths have the provision that you can run your belt through a loop on the sheath and carry on your belt. Some sheaths just cover the hawk blade ( these are easier to make ), but of course you can slip the handle behind behind your belt for carry. A buddy of mine makes them. I'll be seeing him this weekend. If he has any patterns I'll post a link.
 


I have no picture of my construction, sorry. The drawing shows how my construction works. It is easy to make.

This construction works very well, for my axes anyway. I have use it for many years and it do not open by it self, not even in bushes and so on.

It can be made in many ways, you can sew it together or use metal rivets, I use both for security reasons.

The front is nice to create a pattern.

Regards
Thomas
 
For the heck of it, let me describe something odd I've been kicking around a while. I'm starting to think that, if you plan on using it often or need it in a hurry, the best way to carry a hawk or small axe is head down, not handle down. Maybe this is not practical for all styles (like spikes or long handles) but imagine dropping the head down into an open top pocket and using a snapped band around the handle to retain. Seems pretty accessable to me. Maybe you would need a leg tie-down, or a pivot feature on the belt loop...
 
For many years in commercial carpentry I carried my trusty plumb rigging axe in the head down position in a pouch of my carpenters belt. Very quick to hand as opposed to trying to draw the haft out of a loop or metal hammer holster. The only 'downside' to having the haft up was that the haft would smack against anything you walked past closely ...which to me was better than the haft smacking me in the back of the leg/knee while walking with the handle in the down position :)
 
www.survivalsheath.com has alot of sheaths like mounteveriss posted above. Survival Sheath Systems has some good stuff for tactical carry and deployment for 'hawks, which are top-notch, but it'd be real cool to see an old style pipe hawk or something like that in a homemade leather or buckskin sheath.
 
Menawa.
I usually carry the hawk in my backpack, but I`m thinking of making a sheath for it.
The pattern I will use is the same as used by RMJ forge.
Visit their website and look at the pics. Should give you an idea.
 
So, to continue this thread ...a simple 'upside-down carry' bag sheath for a hawk can be bought by going to a hardware store and buying a single leather carpenter's (basic) nail pouch that has a built-in belt loop (as opposed to the ones that are permanently attached to the belt). The suede leather ones are ideal.
Sometimes they have a slot for a carpenter's pencil, which can be used to hold a sharpening stone or rod.
 
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