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thanks for the evaluations from your personal experiences, brother daniel - very insightful and helpful IMO.
per the weight issue with the Cold Steel - i completely agree with it being overweight as is, on that little pathetic handle - but Lynn Thompson encourages folks to grind away on them, ...which i didn't know until i watched his tomahawks video - i say OUTSTANDING - as someone with a sculpting and protoyping background, i can definitely appreciate the excees materials (now) on that head available to the hawkers at large - grind away.
more on the weight issue - it's actually a length/cross-section issue if the head is kept as-is IME.
on the VN zombie stomper that i posted above, in Multicam - it is only 29 ounces at 25 inches long.
that is about five ounces more than my target wait on the Gen 1's with the Trail Hawk heads, but in both those models the handle is way, way over-supported inside ...with a longer-reaching Molar Internal Stike Plate, plus the VN's have 8 inches of solid continuous-strand composites neck that goes clean through the head's eye and down into the handle - then the Molar Strike Plate roots go way down into the handle towards the butt, and i combined the foundation for the cowled steel ring in the butt with an inverted new Molar Strike Plate in the ring's foundation that heads back up towards the first, hence the weight - i probably could've done the whole thing in 21 - 23 ounces, and that is before getting a smaller head, like the excellent ATC's for instance, or grinding down the head. All i did to the head is sharpen the beard and the top point just enough for a good stick, so no perceptible weight loss on the stock head.
this Multicam VN is very lively at 29 balanced ounces, ...i can only imagine how much better they will be - i am a wookie, so i like this weight a lot.
as to the point of the VNs having a small eye, i think that is a detriment in all these designs, before you go composite.
ya have to recall this design's intended purpose - they were meant as killing tools though, ...so that little handle eye would've done fine when you were only hitting soft kidneys, the tops of feet, hamstrings and the side of Charlie's neck.
ugly business.
i guess what i am trying to say is, if you have the small investment in tools, like a dremel, and a little time - the Cold Steel line and a little planning is a modifier's dream, for many different projects rooted in the same head.
they get to be like Ruffle's Potatoe Chips - try to say "no" to getting another one...har...!
got Dremel...?
....i gotta make some handles....
vec
per the weight issue with the Cold Steel - i completely agree with it being overweight as is, on that little pathetic handle - but Lynn Thompson encourages folks to grind away on them, ...which i didn't know until i watched his tomahawks video - i say OUTSTANDING - as someone with a sculpting and protoyping background, i can definitely appreciate the excees materials (now) on that head available to the hawkers at large - grind away.
more on the weight issue - it's actually a length/cross-section issue if the head is kept as-is IME.
on the VN zombie stomper that i posted above, in Multicam - it is only 29 ounces at 25 inches long.
that is about five ounces more than my target wait on the Gen 1's with the Trail Hawk heads, but in both those models the handle is way, way over-supported inside ...with a longer-reaching Molar Internal Stike Plate, plus the VN's have 8 inches of solid continuous-strand composites neck that goes clean through the head's eye and down into the handle - then the Molar Strike Plate roots go way down into the handle towards the butt, and i combined the foundation for the cowled steel ring in the butt with an inverted new Molar Strike Plate in the ring's foundation that heads back up towards the first, hence the weight - i probably could've done the whole thing in 21 - 23 ounces, and that is before getting a smaller head, like the excellent ATC's for instance, or grinding down the head. All i did to the head is sharpen the beard and the top point just enough for a good stick, so no perceptible weight loss on the stock head.
this Multicam VN is very lively at 29 balanced ounces, ...i can only imagine how much better they will be - i am a wookie, so i like this weight a lot.
as to the point of the VNs having a small eye, i think that is a detriment in all these designs, before you go composite.
ya have to recall this design's intended purpose - they were meant as killing tools though, ...so that little handle eye would've done fine when you were only hitting soft kidneys, the tops of feet, hamstrings and the side of Charlie's neck.
ugly business.
i guess what i am trying to say is, if you have the small investment in tools, like a dremel, and a little time - the Cold Steel line and a little planning is a modifier's dream, for many different projects rooted in the same head.
they get to be like Ruffle's Potatoe Chips - try to say "no" to getting another one...har...!
got Dremel...?
....i gotta make some handles....
vec
