Rail spike hawk

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Just thought I would show a picture of my first rail spike hawk.
Head is 4 1/8" across
Cutting edge is 1 5/8"
Handle 13" Dyed maple wrapped in leather.

All comments are welcome
Richard

Edit to add the end cap was my first poured in place pewter as well


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More pics please! It is difficult to capture the attention to detail and design in just one picture. From what I see, You are a Hawkmaster. Beautiful work.
 
Those can be some of the most challenging one's to forge,trying to keep everything in sync,look's to me you mastered your 1 st one right off the bat Tinbasher,all though i like a wider cutting edge
 
COAL CREEK FORGE said:
Those can be some of the most challenging one's to forge,trying to keep everything in sync,look's to me you mastered your 1 st one right off the bat Tinbasher,all though i like a wider cutting edge
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I would have liked a wider edge as well but I didn't upset it enough to start with, next one should be better.
The problem I have with these is I have never seen one up close before so I had no idea how long the handle should be or how big the hole in the head should be.

Thank You for your kind comments guys, if you know of a link where I can get more info from please post it here.
Richard
There are a few more pictures in my photobucket account

http://s177.photobucket.com/albums/w203/tinbasher/
 
Tinbasher said:
I would have liked a wider edge as well but I didn't upset it enough to start with, next one should be better.
The problem I have with these is I have never seen one up close before so I had no idea how long the handle should be or how big the hole in the head should be.

Thank You for your kind comments guys, if you know of a link where I can get more info from please post it here.
Richard
There are a few more pictures in my photobucket account

http://s177.photobucket.com/albums/w203/tinbasher/
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Tinbasher have you checked out my video's on You Tube,just type in coalcreekforge (1 word all lower case) and the same principle's apply to the R x R spike's as the rest,standard length for a handle is ideally 19 inch's :thumbup:
 
Wow, well done, I'm loving it top to bottom.

Can you describe the poured pewter method?

And I want to wrap my handle like you did... details?
 
Awesome work, that's some real forging talent! Maybe you can flatten the spike head to form the bit, and make a spike from the other end. That would give you a more functional using edge.
 
pullrich said:
Wow, well done, I'm loving it top to bottom.

Can you describe the poured pewter method?

And I want to wrap my handle like you did... details?
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Under the pewter the handle is almost the same shape, I drilled a few holes in it so the pewter had something to hold on to, the rest was done following a tutorial created by the master himself
http://forums.dfoggknives.com/index.php?showtopic=9559
The leather cord is 2mm round used in making jewellery, I squished about 1 1/2" on the end then you lay a thin wire loop down the length of the handle, wind on the leather until you get to the bottom cut the leather leaving a 2" tail, tuck the tail in the wire loop and pull the tail up under the wrapped handle.
I hope this helps a bit.

Thank you for all the great feedback .

Richard
 
PayetteRucker said:
Awesome work, that's some real forging talent! Maybe you can flatten the spike head to form the bit, and make a spike from the other end. That would give you a more functional using edge.
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I could but then you may as well just use another chunk of metal, I liked the look of the rail spike head.
Richard
 
Tinbasher said:
The leather cord is 2mm round used in making jewellery, I squished about 1 1/2" on the end then you lay a thin wire loop down the length of the handle, wind on the leather until you get to the bottom cut the leather leaving a 2" tail, tuck the tail in the wire loop and pull the tail up under the wrapped handle.
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Thanks for the link on the pewter technique, another great resource revealed!
Looks pretty simple I'm going to have to try that out.

I think I am visualizing your handle wrap method correctly, I can see how pulling the tail thru will secure that end. However I'm not sure how the other end, where you start ('squished') , is secured. I was thinking that it would lay lengthwise along the handle for 1.5 ", then you wrap over it on your way down handle, ending by pulling tail through. Just guessing, though, was I on target or did you use some other method?
 
pullrich said:
Thanks for the link on the pewter technique, another great resource revealed!
Looks pretty simple I'm going to have to try that out.

I think I am visualizing your handle wrap method correctly, I can see how pulling the tail thru will secure that end. However I'm not sure how the other end, where you start ('squished') , is secured. I was thinking that it would lay lengthwise along the handle for 1.5 ", then you wrap over it on your way down handle, ending by pulling tail through. Just guessing, though, was I on target or did you use some other method?
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As you described is correct, you wrap over the flattened end, I only flattened it so it didn't raise the coils to much.
Old pewter beer mugs melt nicely.
Richard
 
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