Thar she is!

That is a truly great looking hawk. You could leave it totally as is and it would be awesome. I would not sand and polish it as the forged look suits it much better.
I am bluing my hawk but I don't know if it would suit the forged look of your hawk.

SJ, That is one sweet hawk!!! Very nice!!!!

I love that spike! Looks like something the gov't would want to ban. Its an assault hawk! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Now that's funny.

Nice looking Hawk Stabby.

correction: EVIL assault hawk

Spike Hawk > Nancy Pelosi

Evil is right and with that full capacity handle and all... Oh the horror.

Here is my norse hawk now that I am almost done the sanding phase. Soon I will polish and blue it and then start on the handle. I got real lucky on this hawk as it is very straight and the handle is fantastic with great grain which is not common for hickory.

Hickory is the Sr77 of wood with strength way higher than the next closest competitor.

Here is my YKLE with a CSLE.

This photo shows how crappy CS wood usually is on my spade.
The spade was much more typical of CS with very bad grinds that needed a lot of work.

It is still an excellent tool tough.
Since I have the pic handy here are a few of my favorite using tools.

Holy crap! I actually found one like this that is inexpensive and doesn't seem to be fit only for display!

http://www.gggodwin.com/page19.htm



I just have to decide if I can live with a french axe. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" /> J/K

Man this thread makes me relly want an evil assualt tomahawk.

do eeeet