help with my two CS hawks

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Stalking Blade

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Hey guys this is my 1st post and would like to say this is a great forum I have been ha fan of hawks and made my own. When I mean made my own I mean I went natural…. Rock, Rawhide, and Stick like the natives did before the Europeans came. The other day I ordered two CS Vietnam tomahawks. One for me and one for my friend that is coming back from Switzerland. I know that they aren’t the best but I don’t have the money to get a 160$ hawk so I ordered these. So my question is what I can do to make my hawks better.... I do allot of outdoors work and go on camp trips for weeks at a time. I will be using the hawk to build shelter and maybe even for hunting, skinning, and ext. I have allot of wood and metal working tools to modify the hawks. Making the head tighter, wrapping the handle, modifying the blade ... I am a believer in the Native American way of living and also would like to decorate my hawks so it looks more "nativish"
If anyone can help me I would be very appreciative
All good medicine
Thank you bros
 
Stalking Blade

Welcome to the forum! Well there are a ton of things that you can do with your hawks. You can sand the handles down so they are the natural wood color. Then stain them or soak them in kersone to color and protect the handle. This will also make the top of the handle swell in the eye of the hawk to make for a tighter fit. Then it is pretty much up to your imagination. Hope that helps a little anyway.

Justin Gingrich
Owner
Ranger Knives
 
About the most functional change you can make is to the edge profile. Slim it down and flow it nicely into the main bevel. This should greatly aid in cutting ability. How far to adjust the bevel would depend on your skill and the type of wood you plan on cutting.

-Cliff
 
like i said, i am going to be cutting oak, ash, pin, chestnut, allot of dif kinds... depending on the situation. i will allso be skining deer ...i plan on making the spike more of a hook to make the skinning and gutting better
 
Stalking Blade,

I also have a Cold Steel Vietnam Tomahawk, and the blade (as-is) is way too thick, and WAY too dull to use as a deer-skinner....It might be ok as a bone-chopper, 'tho.

Aside from thinning & sharpening the blade, re-edging the spike, and tightening up the head-to-handle union (I hammered in a small steel wedge), I also wrapped 1/2 of the handle with fairly thick leather and that really aids the (small diameter) grip.

If you have not-yet seen one of these CS Tomahawks "in-person", you might be suprised with how small they are.
 
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