SOG Fusion Tomahawk

I got one a while back and the handle looked so weak I just tossed it in a drawer, my CS Trailhawk is the go to. Thanks for the info, I will send mine in.
 
Why the blade has holes in it? If for weight then even if without holes the axe/tomahawk will still be manageble with that thickness.

Looking at the ATC's Tactical Vietnam Lagana Hawk it is without holes in it and it is clearly a superior product. The Sibert Co... (can't spell it won't spell it) i understand because of the speed but the SOG is made of weaker stuff so it needs all the material it can get...

Still, I'll kill for one SOG fusion hawk. Damn stupid paranoid Malaysia customs...
 
I just sent them an E-mail right now asking them about it. I wonder if it is to distribute the weight when using it as a hammer, because you hammer on the side with this hawk.
 
Please post their answer here thanks... Weight distribution by the SOG Fusion hole cutting will mean less weight in the blade end. Shape is like ATC's VTAC so the SOG Fusions current shape means...
1) Less forceful striking with the blade end but maybe not too bad on the spike end. Overall less forceful than compared with ATC's VTAC.
2) Given that Fusion hawk is made of weaker stuff + has a thinner overall profile compared with other vietnam hawks I will hazard a guess that it is the weakest vietnam hawk in the commercial market based on logical deduction.

I welcome corrections if i'm wrong.

Will still kill for one...
 
Frankly i'm a bit disappointed. Apparently aesthetics rate more highly than effectiveness or strength. Another case of businessman doing the job of engineers. They should leave the engineering decisions to the engineers. Thanks MoHeadhunter now i know the fusion axe is more along the lines of a wall hanger or a display unit.
 
I sent my hawk off to Fusion about 2 weeks ago along with 20 bucks. Got it back today with the new fiberglas handle. Looks and feels great, but haven't tried it out yet. I could have gotten it sooner if I wasn't so cheap and I had paid for UPS air. Will report on how it works later. It looks just like the pic that MoHeadHunter posted.
 
I'd just like to toss in here that SOG's Fusion line is their "economy" line so to speak, the products aren't going to be anywhere near the quality that we're all used to with the rest of the SOG lineup. They're manufactured in China, but rather unfortunately the quality doesn't seem to be there (Comparatively, Spyderco's Byrd series is a far more successful economy line).

My reaction when I first saw the Sog Jungle Primitive, was "WTF?" and then I picked it up and my second thought was "....Ewww..." --The Fusion Thrower 3pc set seems to be hit & miss as far as quality goes too. I've had several returns where they've snapped in half right where the "G" is in the handle, however I also do have to confess that after having tossed some around in my store, and seen them land tip down onto a thin layer of carpet & then cement... the pair we've been playing with hasn't broken so it might just be that some batches have carbon flaws in the steel.
 
I had considered buying some of the Fusion products but quickly changed my mind. After owning a Seal Pup that I field tested for a survival knife and was very displeased I dismissed the idea of owning a Fusion blade. Don't get me wrong, SOG's are good knives, but they are designed to do one thing and that is to kill.
 
RossA said:
I sent my hawk off to Fusion about 2 weeks ago along with 20 bucks. Got it back today with the new fiberglas handle. Looks and feels great, but haven't tried it out yet. I could have gotten it sooner if I wasn't so cheap and I had paid for UPS air. Will report on how it works later. It looks just like the pic that MoHeadHunter posted.
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2 weeks, eh? Not to bad, at all. Thanks for the update.
 
Just wondering, Anyone ever used the SOG Fusion Hawks with extreme roughness? Earlier I dismissed this hawk as being badly designed and quite inferior but I realize that it isn't quite fair. Therefore can anyone with experience in pushing these hawks in various situations please include their success/despair stories. Hopefully the users with experience in the non-wood handles.

The reason being that it is my opinion (not apple polishing but my opinion) that the USA generally produces well-thought out designs and value for money 'tactical' items. I have 2 Monadnock batons and an ASP baton and they are leagues ahead of the most expensive 'made in china' stuff I previously used. Let's be fair to SOG, they produce some good stuff too.
 
2 weeks to the day and mine has been returned, I like the black handle, needs some kind of wrap I think.
Cotherion, I would not worry about the holes in the head, I think the handle would give before the head broke, many of the Native American 'hawks had holes cut in them, in the shape of hearts and I am sure if they failed they would have faded into obscurity. It is most likely a cost saving feature, less steel=more profit.
 
True i have not heard any breaking under use. More of the old wood handles breaking. Any news about the new handles breaking under extreme use?
 
I prefer the 'Cold Steel' Vietnam Tomahawk (it is hanging on the wall, less the sheath), and the ATC VTAC (it is in the closet, back-up for the former...
 
Madmanamus said:
SOG "Fusion," Ontario "Rugged Gear," cheap fodder for knife kids (I was one; many a seven dollar Pakistani knife graced my youthful pockets), and unfortunate soldiers who know they need a knife but don't know what makes a $50 Spyderco, or $20 KaBar Dozier better than a Smith & Wesson, Fusion, or Rugged Gear. I'll bet that's the target demographic, and it pisses me off.

Reminds me of some Engineers I met in an army/navy store looking for rucks and assorted gear. Were they checking out the $50 ALICE packs that are at least somewhat well built? Nope. Not when $30 chinese "ALICE" junk packs were a few feet away. I said what I could.

It just really bothers me. But anyway...

Y'all take care.
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Something else I just remembered from our trade show that we had a little while ago, that one of the vendors mentioned about having a "China" series...

While yes it unfortunately detracts from people's willingness to look at the more expensive items, we also need to remember to think of what it does for the vendor itself, from a business perspective. By having a factory located in China, they have just opened up the door to a massive new customer base. It's not always just about making lower quality cheaper products, but about what having a factory over in China, means for them (Means people in China, buying from them whereas they previously most likely would not...and there are LOTS of people in China)

Still sad, but true. From a business perspective, if you have a solid enough reputation to withstand the 'dent' this'll put in the "overall perspective of quality" of your products, then it's brilliant. Henckels is probably the best example. People buy Henckels based solely on the name, very few people bother to stop & look & see what grade of Henckels it is anymore. They just see the name & the "amazing price" and then grab & buy, thinking they're getting a super awesome deal. Yeah the knives are still going to be a better quality than most kitchen cutlery they'd be buying otherwise, but they're still not the quality that the customer "believes" they'll get... if that makes sense.

Also, just so I'm still somewhat 'on topic' here, I did get a chance to handle one of the SOG Fusion Tomahawk's the other day. I didn't get a chance to try it out on anything since I was in the store & people tend to frown on that... (scares the customers, apparently?) but having nothing to really compare it to, it looked alright. (It had the new handle on it) My only complaint with the one I handled, was the sheath for the axe head... the snaps were WAAAAAAAAY too tight, and I had a horrible time trying to get them undone, to look at the axe head itself. Before I ever did get them undone, I had already decided that I hated the thing, based on that alone.
 
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