My first Hawk

[scherm]

Started with a piece of round 100 year old Wrought Iron courtesy of Karl Anderson (kbaknife).  Used  5160 for the bit.  Made a few mistakes.  I made the bit a little too big and I was a little out of practice forge welding.  But overall I'm happy with my first attempt.  It's about 5 7/8" long and the edge is 2 1/2"  The picture doesn't pick up the grain of the wrought iron, also I didn't do a very deep etch yet.




After some refining and a deeper etch.  It's been a good learning experience!  



Thanks for looking  :grin:

[Joel]

Hell. looks great already.  Better than the commercial ones I've seen.  5160 works nice on a hawk/hachet.  I just got back from spending all day in the woods kinda hunting/relaxing.  Nice and warm today(46).  Anyway that Marbles Hunter's Axe of mine has a 5160 head, and used it to take down a dead(but not rotted) pine about 6"accross for a cooking fire/seat, plus cut some other, lighter stuff.  No problem atall.  Not bad for a pocket hachet that weighs just over a pound.  I can shave with that thang.

[Will52100]

Pretty cool, I haven't even been able to get a welded hawk done yet.  Made several but keep getting too far off on the eye.  Well done.