Where can I get some good, straight handles for my CS hawks??

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you can do a lot.

besides making excellent trekking sticks with the detachable bolts in the bottom, you can potentially add hoes and E-tool attachments, spear heads, spikes, you-name-it, to a super-length hawk, sez i...!

out in the desert here in Anza Borrego, i'm gonna try using one for a Teepee type tent, where there is no brush or tree limbs to make use of.

you can finish a trapped hog or snared bit of fangy din-din with one, without getting an opinion in response, like when ya try to finish off something with a bowie knife, etc. - if you like to go out with very little in the way of provisions, as i do (your knees and back will thank you...:))....

so yeah! - you can do all sorts of stuff, including shortening the line at Wal-Mart.

....har...!

vec
 
I am a true believer in a properly oriented grain hickory handle but I am starting to get interested in these composites. I would like to see them compared to a really good hickory handle like the one on my Norse hawk. One thing I like about hickory is the lively feel as well. I may try one of the composites and a good hickory both on the same type of head and the same length handle to really give them both an honest comparison. I love the strike plate idea as well.
 
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I am a true believer in a properly oriented grain hickory handle but I am starting to get interested in these composites. I would like to see them compared to a really good hickory handle like the one on my Norse hawk. One thing I like about hickory is the lively feel as well. I may try one of the composites and a good hickory both on the same type of head and the same length handle to really give them both an honest comparison. I love the strike plate idea as well.
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brother 'shooter might be able to give ya a good story, for your purposes, brother unsub.

he had the Gen 1 Mk 1 handle too - (the new ones with the Molar Strike Plate inside, to toughen them, will be known for now as the Gen 1 Mk 2), which was longer than intentionally designed for - and from what i gathered from his accounts, it still did well compared to a seasoned ash handle.

i like the liveliness of wood too, and i can empathize with that stated preference - we try to keep that little bit of spring in the composite handles - it's not a science yet, but it will be - laminates are better than castings (in otherwise comparable composite materials) in our combined experience - so i am really looking forward to perfecting these Gen 1 Mk 2's and maybe getting them into offshoots of tweaked inner plates, ...and handle lengths and new contours and curves ultimately.

we really want to try making the hybrid handles that leverage the warmth of wood and straight-grained sections laminated with different composites, especially kevlar and graphites, ...along with our proprietary slurries - i think they are going to be so good it will just hurt when ya see them - but in a good way.

....har...!


your suggestions and input, brethren have been huge stabilizing factors in what our direction should be, in developing these thingies.

many thanks.

vec
 
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