Weeping Heart Hawk - Forged 5150 / Hickory
Lynn C. Thompson has been training with an aluminum Weeping Heart Tomahawk for over 10 years and likes it so much Cold Steel decided to duplicate it in drop forged steel. Offered with an extra-long blade and spike with the characteristic heart cut out it provides lethal chopping and piercing power from either end. And as an added bonus its extra-long length is a huge boon when slapping, parrying, blocking, catching and trapping an enemy’s weapon.
These superb tomahawks are precision drop forged from 1055 carbon steel. Drop forging is the best method of manufacture for any impact weapon, particularly one with a cutting edge. During the forging process a metal ingot is heated almost white hot and then formed into shape in a series of progressive dies. The large steel dies are fixed to enormous compressed air hammers. Each die hammers the hot metal into a gradually more finished shape. The steel is kneaded and compressed into a completely homogeneous mass making the grain structure uniform and minimizing gas pockets or other imperfections that can ruin the construction of a hand forged hawk. This is why most good axes, hatchets and hammers are drop forged. These hawks are differentially heat treated. This means that the cutting edge and hammer face is fully hardened, while the balance is left relatively soft to absorb the shock of striking blows.
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