Wrought iron display hawk

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B Finnigan

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Each year my daughter's school holds a huge fund raising auction so this year I decided to hammer out a display hawk. It is from 100 year old wrought iron and etched and polished several times to bring up the grain. The base is semi-spalted doug fir and vine maple off of my property. The obsidian arrow head is framed in a diagonal cut of of vine maple that has 37 rings and when sanded and coated with polyurethane looks incredible. It has at least fifteen coats so it looks dipped in glass.

All of the lanyard "bling" was handmade from deer antler, maple, maple burl, copper, horse hair and natural dyed hemp chord. The copper jingles were cold hammered from some old brake or fuel line. The hand grip is elk leather "X" stitched and secured with brass dome nails.

Hopefully is will fetch a few bucks for those little crumb cruncher's school. It will end up on someones fireplace mantle or book shelf, but sadly not mine.

Picture:
http://groups.msn.com/Brentscustomknives/dispayhawk.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=108
 
nice, i like the leather/woodburning/tack work. makes it real decorative. nice of you to donate it for a good cause.
 
Thanks guys! It is always fun to forge something that will be given away or a gift. I tend to have better focus and make fewer mistakes. The auction was last night and I am curious as to how much it went for. All of the teachers and staff really liked it and I would not be surprised if one of them took it home.

I have found that donating to the school auction is great exposure and always results in a sale or two. Her school is operated by a church and the principal is also the administrator. There is no red tape or school district administration to mis-manage the funds, every penny goes to the school.
 
I'm surprised that they'd let a "weapon" be auctioned off, even if it is a work of art. I was going to let my daughter show her shop teacher one of our hawks because they have a forge at the high school where the kids can learn to make their own stuff but I have to bring it in - she's not allowed to bring it onto school property.
 
She is in a private school and it is a whole different world then public schools. I actually brought it in when I was picking her up. Last year I made a knife for the auction and I called first to find out if that was cool or not. They were a bit confused why I even felt I needed to call. Political correctness has warped everyones minds, even my own.
 
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