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Old 03-02-2017, 09:50 AM
jimmontg jimmontg is offline
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Well it wouldn't take a big forge to do it, a 2 to 3 lb hammer and a heavy block of steel for an anvil. A piece of 8670 carbon steel about .220 thick and 2 inches wide by 8 inches long would do the trick. 8670 is just a slightly improved 5160. AKS sells it cheap. Darn I don't know where there is a video showing how to rough out a small tomahawk. Watching it done would be real helpful.

Tell you one thing though, buy a tomahawk handle before you forge the head. I could have bought a tapered 22" heavy tomahawk handle online and made the head to fit instead of the other way around.
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