Sabretooth Tigerstripe 1

vector001 · Sep 24, 2009

A Preview of a protoype hawk/camo, the Sabretooth Tigerstripe, and Gen 1 Mk 4 - X BUG hawk;

Sabretooth Tigerstripe BUG 1.

The camo design basically follows the VN Tigerstripe design motif, but with no blacks, and more earth tones, with hints of greys and greens that should help it blend very well in a few select settings where game likes to get itself on the dinner plate.

i especially like the break up effect of the hawk's outline, in both Dark settings...

....and Light settings.

now i just need a vectorized bow to match....

thanks for lookin', brethren.

vec

Snake Dr. · Sep 24, 2009

Nice looking Hawk Vec I like the Natural Earth Camo Pattern, Sure Nuff Is a Beauty, You've been Busy Getting-It-Done ! I still like the Cherry Faux Wood "It's still my Favorite Vec Made Composite Handle" With a Handle Wrap of Brain Tanned & Smoked Buckskin Strip's and a Brown Patina Sharktooth Trail Hawk Head, Wooo-Weee "I Can See It Already !

depusm12 · Sep 24, 2009

Excellent work vec, I love the tigerstipe pattern. I may have to send you the pol hawk head I'm getting for a nice composite handle and finish. What kinda knife is that vec? Does that hawk head have more tooth?

vector001 · Sep 25, 2009

Snake Dr. said:
Nice looking Hawk Vec I like the Natural Earth Camo Pattern, Sure Nuff Is a Beauty, You've been Busy Getting-It-Done ! I still like the Cherry Faux Wood "It's still my Favorite Vec Made Composite Handle" With a Handle Wrap of Brain Tanned & Smoked Buckskin Strip's and a Brown Patina Sharktooth Trail Hawk Head, Wooo-Weee "I Can See It Already !

i like the sound of that hawk, brother.

i have some Heirlooms that i need to get out - 'need to track down some leather. - i really want to do some Old Timey-lookin' BUGs, if i can pull it off.

a Buffalo Skin Overstrike Wrap would be pretty fantastic on a Cherry Heirloom Hawk IMHO.

vec

vector001 · Sep 25, 2009

depusm12 said:
Excellent work vec, I love the tigerstipe pattern. I may have to send you the pol hawk head I'm getting for a nice composite handle and finish. What kinda knife is that vec? Does that hawk head have more tooth?

the knife is (also) a Sabretooth by one of my best friends, Luke Swenson, out of Texas, brother. He is the definition of a perfectionist.

he made me this one as a surprise, and it is so good for me i almost got mad at him; - he turned my dang knife collection into junk overnight - hahaha!

it's got black mahogany handles that are about as tough as a brand new bowling ball. i'll try to remember to post some pics of the knife out of the sheath with the next hawk images.this Swenson knife's just how i like my hawks - nothing extra, but a total performer.

it's O-1 steel.

......

the hawk head is a Standard BUG head.

that Shark's Tooth is one of my favorite all-time hawk features, which ya probably guessed already....

.......

thanks for takin' a peek at the hawks.

i'll post some more of this one as i get 'er done, and some others soon.

we are really going fast these days.

i could use a beer.

vec

Cpl Punishment · Sep 25, 2009

Great adaptation of the pattern, Vec.

It'd be great for high desert and such.

Dusty One · Sep 25, 2009

Great lookin paint job....How would you like to do my truck ?

vector001 · Sep 25, 2009

Dusty One said:
Great lookin paint job....How would you like to do my truck ?

as you realize, good-brother - i love to paint, especially when it comes to painting something ya love.

i am helping a buddy do his jeep right now in a vectorized Multicam that we call Infidel-cam - it has little arabic "infidels" worked into the pattern. he's Marine WIA (Iraq) so it extra fun to be helping a true brother.

i think we need to start having nationwide hawker parties where we all get together and do something like muralize trucks and just go nuts. maybe do some communtiy service so the cops don't toss us out right away.

the guys'll want to be like us, the chicks'll wanna be with us, as we used to say - i better bring the lovely Saint Erica to defend myself - from the cops, if not the chicks...

:thumbup:....

vec

savageknives · Sep 25, 2009

vec, you are certainly one of the comprehensive forward thinkers of our time. a true mental giant. a nationwide party for all hawk lovers would truly be a spectacle. "by any means necessary" as another forward thinker once said.

Snake Dr. · Sep 25, 2009

vector001 said:
i like the sound of that hawk, brother.

i have some Heirlooms that i need to get out - 'need to track down some leather. - i really want to do some Old Timey-lookin' BUGs, if i can pull it off.

a Buffalo Skin Overstrike Wrap would be pretty fantastic on a Cherry Heirloom Hawk IMHO.

vec

That would be Great Vec If you could catch the BuckSkinner Style with some Rawhide & Braintanned Buckskin Wrap & Cherry Faux Wood Composite Handle "Maybe you could figure out a Curly Maple Composite Handle ? That would look Real Nice with a Brown Patina Finish Sharkstooth Hawk Head, Old School Look with "The High Tech Handle's"

spoolup · Sep 25, 2009

vector001 said:
as you realize, good-brother - i love to paint, especially when it comes to painting something ya love.

i am helping a buddy do his jeep right now in a vectorized Multicam that we call Infidel-cam - it has little arabic "infidels" worked into the pattern. he's Marine WIA (Iraq) so it extra fun to be helping a true brother.

i think we need to start having nationwide hawker parties where we all get together and do something like muralize trucks and just go nuts. maybe do some communtiy service so the cops don't toss us out right away.

the guys'll want to be like us, the chicks'll wanna be with us, as we used to say - i better bring the lovely Saint Erica to defend myself - from the cops, if not the chicks...:thumbup:....

vec

As always GREAT hawks. You need to post a photo of that truck when done. Great idea. I get a few weird looks still when I where my Infidel or the new "patriotic vs socialism" with the American flag and Obama logo under it, tees around town. I could only imagine driving one. I have had a few girls spit at my car, flip me off, shout obscenities over my... bottles are for babies, real men get blown license plate frame... they just don't under stand turbos/ racing I guess, thought the "spoolup" plate, big FMIC, 3" exhaust, etc would have hinted it to them, but minus the FMIC it is pretty sleeper.

Bushman5 · Sep 25, 2009

Vec do these come with the clear plastic tube to insert into the haft? (or was there ever such a thing?)

vector001 · Sep 25, 2009

Bushman5 said:
Vec do these come with the clear plastic tube to insert into the haft? (or was there ever such a thing?)

the tube itself is clear polycarbonate, brother.

the white you might notice in some of the pictures is the composite behind it, which i (usually) pigment white.

Since the tube is .50 caliber, you can put a sub-tube in there of any smaller size Outer Diameter.

- I make a Sabot Dart set-up, for instance (when it is legal to do so :thumbup, which is just a dart that you make to fit in a smaller tube, then you put the tube on the end of the hawk, and you have a very vicious blow gun.

the outer dart-tube protects you from the dart, and protects the dart from you, so you can re-load them very roughly and relatively quickly, without having a larger blowgun and (i believe) better results because the larger pre-chamber in the hawk does something to the laminar flow of the air or something = faster/heavier dart.

sub-tubes make great individual kits to go inside the Gen 1 Mk 4's as well.

but that's probably TMI, as is my annoying habit.

you know how i get with hawks, brethren ....excitable....

i have not yet begun to hawk.

....hawk party in my head...24/7....

vec

Bushman5 · Sep 26, 2009

excellent! i can also see using the bore to get fires going , storage tube for PJCB tinders etc

vector001 · Sep 26, 2009

Bushman5 said:
excellent! i can also see using the bore to get fires going , storage tube for PJCB tinders etc

exactly.

i think a large reservoir of Petroleum Jelly in the head end might be interesting for chopping too.

inertial forces would probably keep a vial of it in the head mighty nicely.

hafta work on that one.

ya see why i am crazy?!

so much trouble to get myself into....

:thumbup:

vec

johnbar · Sep 30, 2009

Cool camo pattern Vec.

ishiyumisan · Sep 30, 2009

Just beautiful

vector001 · Oct 1, 2009

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7317227#post7317227

HTH

vec

depusm12 · Oct 1, 2009

vector001 said:
i like the sound of that hawk, brother.

i have some Heirlooms that i need to get out - 'need to track down some leather. - i really want to do some Old Timey-lookin' BUGs, if i can pull it off.

a Buffalo Skin Overstrike Wrap would be pretty fantastic on a Cherry Heirloom Hawk IMHO.

vec

Hey vec

What kinda leather you looking for I have some thin dark brown leather scrap stuff if your interested? Might look very good on a hawk.

vector001 · Oct 1, 2009

depusm12 said:
Hey vec

What kinda leather you looking for I have some thin dark brown leather scrap stuff if your interested? Might look very good on a hawk.

mighty nice of ya, brother.

I am actually not sure what i want.

i have a source for buffalo hide, which i absolutely love.

I am going to try to get some of the other Faux Heirloom Wood finishes represented ASAP, and then different hides will come into play for each version, i reckon.

lots to do. lots to do, brother....

thanks for thinking of us.

vec