One Hawk Two Handles

[G L Drew]

I forged this from an old stone mason's hammer. My thinking was that this hammer had to be extremely hard to work brick and stone so I should be able to get a good heat treat on a finished hawk. I used my Evenheat furnace to bring the hawk slowly to a normalizing temperature of 1500 degrees three times, did a partial quench in oil, watched the edge for a straw brown color and then quenched the entire head. This gave the hawk a tempered edge in the range of Rc 58 with a softer body. To sharpen this hawk a person will need a stone because a file will merely skate on the edge and not cut into it. I sell my hawks with two handles because I assume that the owner will want to throw it and will eventually break the handle. I hand made the curly maple handle and the factory hickory handle cost about $6 on the internet: in other words, break the cheap handle and save the curly maple for show.
The haft length is 18 inches, the head measures 7 1/2 inches and the cutting edge is about 3 inches. Weight is 1 pound 2 ounces.
I will provide a simple leather edge guard.

$190 delivered within the US. (I will not ship this one to other countries. ) My email and PayPal account is gldrewknives@gmail.com