Why Tomahawks

[LEGION 12]

Heres a pic of one of her hammer poll hawks i picked up a couple of weeks ago .

 

[Warhammer4real]

so, after only 16,142 posts here on the forums you finally realized that an axe of some sort excels at axe work and a knife performs axe duties poorly. Better late than never.

ha-ha

 

[Warhammer4real]

That guy knows his business

 

[wildmanh]

I've had 4 hawks over the years, a Cold Steel Trail hawk, RD Hawk, Custom Spiked hawk from Coal Creek Forge (soldyears ago) and a Medium French from Keith at Great River Forge. All of them have their uses, but my Medium French hawk see's the most use and is the one that I'd keep if I sold the rest.

In my research, I've found that I prefer hawks that have wider cutting edges. Also that hammer poles are nice, if they are big enough. The small hammer pole on my Trail hawk works, but I prefer a wider striking surface. The Trail hawk isn't very good at splitting logs. Sure, it works, but my Medium french hawk out splits it by a huge margin. The head weight, thickness and width are what IMO makes the difference.

So for me and my uses, a 3.5" or wider hawk is more ideal. My French hawk has a 3.75" long cutting edge measured in a straight line. 4" measured on the curve. It came with an 18" Haft, which is now mangled from many bad throws. :foot: Hope to get a new longer half for it soon.

 

[Morrow]

Because one can learn something new everyday, especially if he is always open to learning them, right?

On a side note, geez, what gives? Where are all these newbies (that includes b yond and AD43576)who think BF is like 'effing Facebook? I haven't come across a thread with such juvenile-level, idiotic posts like on this thread in quite a while.

Let's stay on topic and not make other posters the focus of conversation.

 

[upnorth]

Double post.

 

[upnorth]

I always thought that Tomahawks were the light multi tool of the North American frontier. The axe stayed in the canoe or in camp unless needed for its intended purpose. A hawk or belt axe was lighter, smaller and a general purpose tool from my perspective. Splitting kindling, processing large frozen game, etc.

My new frontier is lighter than a belt axe that I found from the late 1700's.

An old orginal belt axe.

A turn of the century axe that I find all the time while metal detecting.

new and old, the iron belt axe has more weight than the comparable Cold Steel version.