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Old 03-08-2008, 06:10 PM
rbranan rbranan is offline
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Tactical Tomahawks

Here's a link to a couple of tomahawks that I made:

The following is what has been done to the tomahawks to complete their fabrication:
 W1 tool steel bodies that are hand forged.
 The holes are drifted with a tomahawk drift.
 The heads are differentially hardened with clay (like samurai swords). This produces hard edges (for edge retention) with tough bodies (for shock resistance).
 They are heat treated by myself in Evenheat Knife Kilns.
 Water Quenched briefly then immediately submerged in molten salts that are melted and controlled by an EvenHeat Knife Kiln.
 Double Tempered.
 Dye Penetrant checked.
 Tested by destroying concrete blocks and cutting into mild steel (no indications noted).
 Dye Penetrant checked again.
 Polished and etched.
 Sand blasted.
 K-Phos
 Flat Black Gun Kote
 Acraglas epoxy heads on with keeper to maintain head retention and integrity.

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Thanks for looking.

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