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Offline warren5421

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Tomahawk type and builder contacts?
« on: October 17, 2022, 10:41:23 PM »
I bought a bag from Marcruger and horn from Tim Crosby. I have a Kibler SMR finished by Chuck Edwards. Working on the money to be able to buy a Kentucky smoothbore like what mama has for sale.  But would like to find a good usable hawk that would go with the very nice bag and horn I have.  What type hawk would work good with the black bag and screw tip horn.  Who makes the hawk?  I do not know names so would like contact info.  Will need a belt and patch knife also.

Offline ScottNE

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Re: Tomahawk type and builder contacts?
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2022, 11:22:12 PM »
I have a French trade/Boucheron knife made by Ben Hoffman (he has several axes for sale currently on his website, Hoffman Reproductions), which is very nice. Simeon England makes some beautiful stuff but I don’t know what his waitlist looks like or if he’s currently still making/taking orders. There’s many others but those two stick out in my mind.

My belt axe is an original English boarding axe, probably made in the earlier part of the 19th century, later than period I’m interested in but I don’t know if the pattern is noticeably different than an axe from the mid-late 18th century, I’m no expert on cold weapons. It has a somewhat pronounced curve on the rear spike, as I’ve seen on original boarding axes dated from 1790ish, 1830ish and between. A couple of earlier English boarding axes, dated mid-18th century seem to have a flat underside to the rear rather than a curve. I should research more, I admit. The Fort Meigs belt axe is a good example but also probably made later than mid-late 18th century to my understanding, recovered at a War of 1812 site. but again, I don’t know how much the patterns changed. It’s a pretty light axe.

There’s a whole world of research on the different patterns of axes that were imported where and by whom, so with a bit of background knowledge it wouldn’t be hard to justify just about whatever type of axe you wanted, within the bounds of reason of course!
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Offline Brokennock

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Re: Tomahawk type and builder contacts?
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2022, 04:56:42 PM »
Not sure on the style that would best match the rest of your set up. I am very happy with my 'hawk from Zach Royer.
 @Zachary here in this forum. Very well made, razor sharp, and he worked with me sending pics and asking questions to make sure I got what I wanted and needed.

Offline Seth Isaacson

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Re: Tomahawk type and builder contacts?
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2022, 05:54:56 PM »
If you want something affordable that is also a useful, I've been happy with my "Forged English Light Infantry Axe" from Townsends. I think they are imported from overseas somewhere. It is certainly not a work of art, but I imagine most of the stuff used back in the day was far, far more rudimentary and utilitarian than what today's talented artisans make. I've used it for throwing some and it works nicely. It also works fine as a camp axed and hammer. Its a bit on the heavy side compared to many of the smaller belt axes/tomahawks.
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