Mod'ing The CS Trail Hawk

[irsh]

This thread has inspired me. Ordered my first 'Hawk today, CS Pipe Hawk (and the CS Spetsnaz shovel because why not?).

 

[irsh]

Received the Pipe 'Hawk today. I liked it well enough to order the Spike, Trail and Rifleman 'Hawks.

 

[Pirate63]

 

[Blue Sky]

I have to ask, what is the nail for?

 

[Gato do mato]

I have 5 or 6 Cold Steel tomahawks and a few axes. On tomahawks, it is a mandatory service to fix/correct that sharp point on the axe's eye. A round file or a Dremel (micro angle grinder) is sufficient to correct and prevent the eyelet from fraying the cable.
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[irsh]

Does CS use something new for the black coating? This stuff isn't giving up with Kleen Strip.
UPDATE: Wire wheel to the rescue. It still took more wheel-time than expected. That is some durable stuff.
Cold Blued and oiled for now...

 

[irsh]

Hafts stained and urethaned, set-screw holes welded shut, Pipe 'hawk bowl chopped, Trail haft cut 4", Rifleman re-profiled to remove the top step, chamfer eyes, and re-blued.

 

[Pirate63]

I have to ask, what is the nail for?

Just ornamentation.

 

[Pirate63]

 

[Pirate63]

 

[TonyManx]

One last post, I forgot my CS Viking axe. If your interested in the Handle (haft) design, it is an old gunstock makers trick of wrapping the wood with a cotton or hemp twine and them flame burning it, in my case I used butchers cotton string the kind used to wrap a roast with.
thanks for looking and I'll stop flooding the site with my stuff.

So the twine leaves the protected area? Do you wet it ?