I posted this on another forum as well but thought ppl here might like it as well.I built a hawk a few years ago and loved it so much better than anything else I had used up to that point, but since then I had a few things I wanted to improve upon such as weight, the eye and the hammer face.
So I did just that and made this one a little heavier and mad ethe eye to fit a standard handle and widened the face of the hammer. I started off with a piece of 18 wheeler leaf string just as I had used for my first hawk. I used the cutting torch to cut it out.
http://i822.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/101_0328.jpg
Then I cleaned it up a bit with a new file and cut about 1/16th" from where I had cut it with the torch.
http://i822.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/101_0329.jpg
Here is the hawk with the old one. sry I did not get the pics of putting it all together but the humidity outside fogs up the camera badly. What I did was to use a piece of 3/16th mild steel 1.25" wide and formed the eye with the forge. once formed I used a file to cut the angle for the blade to mate into when I welded it all up. From there I added layer upon layer of welds to form the hammer then file it all to shape. The handle was split from a piece of Cherry I had and using a draw knife and planes i carved it out.
http://i822.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/101_0330.jpg
http://i822.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/101_0331.jpg
Here is the finished hawk complete with basket weave 650 para cord ( that is not a missed print) and gun blued the head. She is 1/2" off balanced with the weight on the head end.
http://i822.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/101_0332.jpg
Hope you enjoy!!
