Welcome to Axeman's Journal! Here we talk about axes, hatchets and tomahawks and their use in forestry, bushcraft, wilderness survival, camping and hiking.
The Eco-Hawk by TOPS Knives is a great tool for the improvising bushcrafter. The ECO HAWK is more than a Good Knife, and it's more than a Proper Hawk. The ECO comes as a complete 'Get Outta Dodge Kit'. It's a great knife in the Bush or when in the Urban Jungle... No longer do you have to always carry a full-sized Hawk.
Practice lashing the Eco Hawk to an improvised haft before you have to use it. It takes some practice to get the head secured well enough to actually use it hard. Once you figure out how to lash the head to the haft it's a very versatile tool.
The TOPS ECO Hawk also does the job as a knife so you can fabricate a haft without too much difficulty. The versatility which this tool presents, gives the user a wide variety of options, with lightweight and convenient carry size being an added extra. Check it out at www.OsoGrandeKnives.com.
It's got a 19" long handle which gives plenty of handle for 2 handed use if needed. The carbon steel blade has excellent "bite", and it can chop or split wood with ease, and it's easy to sharpen in the field with a Lansky dual grit puck.
The Columbia River Woods Chogan is made from a solid chunk of 1055 carbon steel that is hot forged into a rock-solid head and features a hammer finish. The t-hawk has primary and secondary edge bevels that are flat ground to cut through timber like a beaver. A hammer head is useful for pounding in nails and tent stakes.
The thick wood handle is made in the USA from Tennessee hickory. It's comfortable in hand and sealed with a lacquer coat that adds durability when you're in the backcountry.
Checkout our Youtube review of the Woods Chogan T-Hawk. The Woods Chogan T-Hawk isn't your friend when you're busting your chops in the forest; it's your sidekick.
The Gransfors Bruks Wildlife Hatchet is a small, light axe which can be easily carried, masked with its leather sheath, inside your pack or on your belt. Even with a small axe you can manage much: cut branches in the back-yard or chop and split sticks for a camp fire. This little hatchet awakens in many of us memories and dreams of exciting camps and adventures.
The hatchet has a 3" face and a 14" hickory handle and the head weighs 1 lb. The total weight with the sheath is 22.4 oz. It comes with a grain-leather sheath. A 36 page Axe book is included with each purchase. 20 Year Guarantee.
When it comes to axe enthusiasts, the Swedes are the world's greatest, and Gransfors Bruks is one of their finest forges. Each axe is carefully forged by an experienced smith who shows his pride in his work by stamping his initials on the head next to the company logo and each smith is introduced in the 36 page booklet that accompanies every Gransfors Bruks axe. After forging, each blade is ground to a 25 degree bevel and honed to a razor edge. Each axe is fitted with a tight-grained hickory handle and provided with a grain-leather sheath with snap fastener.
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The Forest Clearing Axe is a professional quality axe for those who want to limb a felled tree in traditional Broad Axe, manner. The head is hand forged to a thin, curved bit and sharpened to make it suitable for cutting branches of fresh, resinous wood, spruce or pine. The handy size is smaller than a felling ax but larger than your typical bushcraft ax and it is able to adeptly perform both functions.
The 26.5" handle is made of straight grain Hickory with the Wetterlings stamp on it and a lanyard hole on the butt end. Hickory is unsurpassed for its shock absorbing abilities and its strength as a handle material. The handle fits perfectly through the eye of the axe head.
The axe head is hand forged which makes for a stronger steel with more flex than a machine forged head. It has a nice keen sharp edge and the combination of hand forging and heat treatment provides more "sting" or a "longer edge life" than a machine forged head offers. The axe head measures 6.5" in length with a 3.5" cutting edge and weighs 1.7 lbs.
If you're looking for an authentic replica of the early 1800's era tomahawks that is built to take the abuse of throwing and hard use then the Cold Steel Frontier Hawk is for you! Checkout our review here.
