What first got you interested in 'Hawks?

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diablero

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Probably the opening of the Daniel Boone TV series for me. I was about 4. Funny what sticks with you.

Diablero
 
Probably watching Last of the Mohican's whenever it came out. I've always liked hand axes, but that was probably when I discovered the 'hawk.
 
Probably first when reading western comics when I was a kid. There was a lot of them back in the 70`s. And surely after watching western movies.
 
got me interested in hatchets, tomahawks, axes . . . I still have a TINY Sears Craftsman hatchet (much smaller than my Gransfors Mini) that I got for Christmas when I was 9. I don't own any expensive 'hawks but have really enjoyed my Cold Steel Frontiersman. It goes on every hunting-camping trip (AK twice). I'm the same way about knives, I'm never without one (except on a plane). My father never carried a pocket knife in his life and our only axe was a beat-up, neglected old thing that he used to behead chickens. Same thing goes for my half-brother. I grew up on the plains of MT where the only trees around were the ones we planted for shelter belts. I've often wondered which one of my ancestors I take after and why I get such enjoyment from sharp objects.
 
I became interested in them when I saw Jerry Fisk forge one while I was at the "Intro" class at the Bladesmithing school in Washington, AR. He came by one morning and forged a hawk out of a ball pein hammer using a power hammer. I was in awe of how fast and effecient he was. After forging he cleaned it up a bit on a grinder and put the original handle back on and we proceeded outside to throw it awhile. It was a great experience. I've been forging hawks ever since.
Clyde O'Dell
 
I was fortunate to see Jerry forging a little hawk from a hammer head when he came to Brazil. Hours before, we were buying stuff at a hardware store and he got a little ball pein hammer. I asked what he needed it to and he said "you will see". We were fixng things and making averything ready for the seminar that he would conduce in a couple days and when I saw him sawing off the hammer handle I thought: "First he tells me he uses a wood hammer to straighten blades and now he will tell me that he can forge blades with only a tiny hammer head in his hand... maybe we picked up the wrong guy at the airport!" Than he forged it by hand in menuts, before I could ask anything else.
 
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