Tomahawks!

Wow Kron, that is one of the nicest RR spike's I have ever seen I love how they kept the shape of the head as they flattened it out. Really cool.
 
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Let us not forget the old HI Bancharo.....

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That's a good looking one. Mine probably has about the same cutting edge, but the part that wraps around the handle is much taller? IE Mine is way over built. I'm thinking of machining it down or passing it on. There's probably 2 pounds of steel in the head! :eek:
 
wildmanh said:
That's a good looking one. Mine probably has about the same cutting edge, but the part that wraps around the handle is much taller? IE Mine is way over built. I'm thinking of machining it down or passing it on. There's probably 2 pounds of steel in the head! :eek:
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You could make it be a pole axe
 
My Bancharo's handle needs to be worked over to fit the head better, it's almost been through a flood. Here's some pictures:

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Someone who knew what they were doing could forge this into a pretty big axe like Lee said.
 
Dang, that's gotta be really heavy. A lot of steel in that bad boy. Put a long handle on it and you'd have a splittin maul.

Sure cool looking though.
 
That's pretty cool, never heard of those before. Makes pretty good sense. Might not be quite as handy as a hawk for chopping or digging etc but a good multi purpose tool.
 
blue lander I almost picked up a carpathian shepherd's axe from an antique dealer, they are very attractive items. I am still looking for a good one as I do want an authentic piece, they just tend to vanish quick-- ax collectors seem more hardcore than the rest?--never see tomahawks or any ax last a good amount of time on a antiques website honestly
 
It's supposed to be an axe/walking stick combo, which might be useful if you were in the hills.

They still carry them in central Europe, but they have to use copper axe heads. Wouldn't that be just as deadly unless they were wearing armor? Is this to protect armored harquebusiers or something?
 
re: shepherd's axes:

Seek and ye shall find: adam thiel (archeosmith at etsy.com) makes a range of fokos heads in hungary.

i bought his damascus bearded spike fokos head, added a 1 in. ash shaft and an alpine spike:

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also bought a poll axe fokos head & made a small camp axe out of it. and a war hammer fokos head i designed that he can also make. he has a larger version of it for sale in etsy at the moment. you can see the haft of the cam axe and the poll part just over the knobkerrie on the left.

here's a ciupaga i found on ebay.

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another shorter brass headed one i have:

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war hammer walking stick (needs an alpine spike; if i can remember where i stored the spare one i have, i might add it) same length as the bearded one at top. waxwood haft.

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overview of some impact weapons and the fokos, camp axe. bronze mace walking stick (my personal 'user' EDC) and bronze fokos at the bottom.
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wow kronck, thanks as always, great link-- you are the most collecting person on the forums I think, you had dha, clubs, a mere, you and berk i bow down. *grovels before the superior collector*--( special grovel/nod to blue whom I also grovel before, as "not much" has fueled my interest for collecting since it was first posted)
 
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I join gehazi in the groveling - we're amateurs compared to you. But I'm slowly learning that gehazi's collection vastly outclasses mine, so I should bow to him as well.

I'm buying that guys cheapest fokos, but I'm terrible at hanging axe heads. My wife knows how so she'll have to do it for me. I have a gigantic soviet axe head that I'm still trying to hang myself dag nabbit. I always over carve it so its too loose.
 
thanks for the praise, guys.
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i did cheat, whittled, rasped and sanded the hafts carefully till they fit, roughed them up to give the epoxy a better grip & glued them on with hi-strength eposy steel, filled in the gaps with epoxy steel too.
 
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That bearded walking stick SINGS!

Consider me also on bended knee in bowed position. (no easy task let me tell ya).

That's some amazing stuff.
 
good choice, I am absolutely gonna pick up one, Im looking at exotic stave wood right now :D
 
Kronck-very nice. I love te bronze headed stick.
20 years ago at a flea market I found a victorian gent's stick-ebony haft, steel brazil nut head...and a full length steel core 3/8" thick running the entire length of the stick, peened to the foot.
If you don't think I still wish I'd had $50 that day in 1989 you'd be mistaken...
 
man I really really regret not being more into antiques sooner when I think of all the things that passed me by
 
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