This was ballpen at 3pm this after noon. Will finish up later.
thmbsup Lookin good there Hary.I got ta git my forge goin and try my hand.Hope in can do half as good.
Some more work work on the hawk. I know one of the pics looks like it is brass. This was a 3 man job as none of us had ever made a hawk form a hammer
Looks really good to me!! Great job thmbsup!
Looks good.I have a ball pien I've been saving for just that same thing.
looks a lot like the scottish black watch axe !
[hmm] Yep Beowulf,ya nailed it.I thought i had seen that style afore just couldnt rember where.Nice job o salty one.
Some may concider this cheating. I have had an old Viet Nam hawk in my war bag. I decided to see if I could make some thing usefull out of it.
Pic one if what I started with and pic two is what I have so far.
I still have some finish work to do, then fit a handle and figure out what kind of fancy decorations to add
I would not call it cheating. Our ancestors would have altered something they already had before spending good money on something new...
never liked the vietnam hawk , anything you do to change that profile is just an improvement ! thmbsup
Those look good. I gotta get out and start makin somemore.
Some nice work Old Salt! And one of the reasons I have been wanting to get started in blacksmithing for so long! I have been metal detecting for about 25 years and from time to time I pull up old axe heads, hammer tops, and things of that order. I like throwing about anything that has a possibility of sticking, so I always held on to the axes to add handles. The ball peen hammer heads I have tried to keep as well, and now I know why! I have seen a lot of ball peens hammered out into hawks lately....once I get set up, I plan to have a houseful of them lol....