In the first pic, it looks like the 'hawk on the left has the standard Trail Hawk poll instead of the re-shaped "penetrator" poll like the one on the right(?)
Is there some normal variation in the re-ground polls? Or is it just the light/angle playing tricks on my eyes?
good question, brother.
it's mostly the light.
that stated,
the hawks are ground to
a standard of weight and balance.
there are
very minute grind differences between each hawk because work stops when our grinding brother gets to a certain point. so you really have to look hard to see the differences, even if you did that for a living one time, which i did as a QC geek in aerospace. sometimes the arttist-turned-grinder-brother runs with a good idea and we get other non-BUG hawks, like
Frank was, but we try to let Investors know about them first and they usually gobble them up with the market never seeing them. that's one more thing i like about having a ka-jillion hawk-centric buddies who i have e-mails for and know their tastes in things.
anyways..., 
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sometimes Cold Steel throws a hawk that is obviously from a different tooling section than most of theirs seem to be, and its proportions are obviously different from the rest - maybe 25% of the heads that we pick out of the lots;
with our premise that all heads have their own personality though, we have to accept those when they are screaming at us that they want to get BUG'd - all heads are not the same, for various reasons that range from the mystical to the mundane.
again, our standards are
weight and
balance;
for example, if a
19 inch tomahawk does the same job that a
22 inch hawk will do, then we are going to offer it - but right now we are subject to the whims of Fate on what heads we get.
each hawk is an individual for now. i kind of like it that way, personally... i've been making the mistake of picking up these new Mk V's, one long and one short - you will be trapped for hours with a big smile on your face, if you have any soul at all....
because each hawk is an individual, when we sell our IGHs
(non-custom-ordered Instant Gratification Hawks)we like to state what we think they are good for; in what window of utility and combatives that they are especially adept at -
(BTW i wish all makers would do that. - can you imagine finally not getting a knife in the mail that you've lusted after for years and it's 50% larger than you ever imagined? or 2/3's smaller? wouldn't that be nice, to not have to go thrugh all that garbage again?)
an interesting part of the refinnement process, which has lead us to the
Gen 1 Mk V BUG variation at this point, is that my Erica and i, and a lot of the Investors that have bought a couple hawks from us, are getting really sensitive to the differences between hawks -
it's that weight and balance thing. it's like recognizing twins.
- a bunch of
Stealths might be within
a Standard, like the
21 inchers, and they might be within grams of each other in weight and miliimeters in length, but subtle shifts in mass in the end caps or in the heads makes them
"sign" - you know which one is yours. they might all throw beautifully, but each one is an individual.
it's cool to experience. those who have hawks agree, i reckon.
hope i didn't bore ya, brethren - i thought it was a good point of discussion.
i just love talkin' hawks.
vec
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