Light Throwing Tomahawk - Mouse Hawk Designed for Young Thrower - 16" Hand Forged Small Throwing Hatchet

Well Chris .Acually you beat me to the punch as far as your Email i received! I was fixin to send out a response before i got it! And i have to say all that tweeking wasnt in vane! It an excellent little thrower! Even being a bit rusty i managed to hit my targetDead center right outta the box! Haddnt even layed a file on.it yet! And now after a little touching up its wicked shap and stays that way, Throw after Throw! I couldnt be happier with my purchass unless of course it was free! But then it wouldnt be a purchas then would it! Lol all kiddin asideId recommend this little hawk without hessatation to anyone that looking to learn or to salty dogs of hawkin alike! Its just fun! And you wont be dissapointedM. E cal.

Head needs to to friction fit. Not too hard to do as the head is painted black and you can slide the head up until it stops on the handle and there will be black marks showing you where to sand. Pretty decent value. Hawk throws great. Even used it for some bushcraft including chopping. It does well for its size.

Good axe, excellent for the price range. If you’re using it for throwing like it’s intended it comes out of the box perfect for the job. If you’re like me, however, and want to use it as an easily packed hiking and camping tool buy this knowing that it’s going to be fairly small, the edge comes pretty blunt but it sharpens easily if you have a course stone or a belt sander, and the handle it comes with doesn’t fit the eye perfectly but can be made to fit more snugly with some sanding. It more than delivers at the price range.

This WOULD have been a deal had the handle's swell been of sufficient girth to fill the eye of the head completely, top to bottom, but it's not. Once you've fitted the handle carefully all the way down into the eye, you discover that there's not enough wood to fill out the bottom of the eye ... it'll fit okay at the top, but the head will wobble. Such a loose fit can be dangerous, especially in a throwing implement ... and ESPECIALLY one meant for children or women. The seller went double-cheap on the wood ... which means that if you want a properly-fitted tomahawk with a proper removable handle, you'll have to turn right around and order a handle ... or fabricate one yourself. Extra expense and/or work. So much for the $19 tomahawk. I did find a replacement 19" handle on E B a y for $8.95 with free shipping and that's on its way.The handle on mine actually also had a crack at the bottom which would have split in short order ... so even if it HAD been thick enough, it would have broken quickly. Other reviewers have reported broken handles, as you can see for yourself. So when I contacted the seller regarding him sending me a proper handle for this tomahawk, I had low expectations. He didn't disappoint me, either. His lame responses all suggested that I should soak the wood to temporarily expand it, or use electrical tape to build up the swell, or put a leather collar around the handle at the bottom of the head to keep it from sliding off. In other words, he wasn't going to put any dents in his profit margin. Same goes for the $6.99 shipping and handlling, which uses the absolute pits of all shipping services: DHL.After taking four days off for the 4th of July, he finally got around to shipping my tomahawk at 8PM on the end of the 5th day ... via DHL ... which then took another 5 days to get it to me. I hate DHL ... it's absolutely the slowest and their tracking sucks like a Hoover. More profit margin emphasis by the seller, probably didn't cost him more than $4 shipping.The hawk arrived with the handle jammed into it ... ill-fitted with 1/8" gaps along the front and rear and tight on the sides ... and, once removed, it could be readily seen that once the wood is contoured to fit on all sides on the TOP of the head, it wasn't going to be thick enough for the bottom ... as I've already described. The inside of the eye had two arc welded blobs of metal at the inner split where the forge welding begins. Not a bad idea, but it required a good 15 minutes of filing to bring it smooth enough for any handle to enter smoothly. The original skinny handle had just been bashed into the head until the weld blobs contacted it, standing the wood away from the rest of the metal. Horrible fit, as I have already reported.The edge had actually been ground in quite well, but roughly ... and the forge hammering of the blade was well done ... with the bit thin and smooth. Two seams are visible at the forge welding; one on each side, but they don't seem to run very deeply into the grain. The forge weld appears solid thus far. The shape of the tomahawk is roughed in okay ... I will need to embellish the bottom curve of the blade to make it look presentable, but at least there's enough metal there to accommodate that.My guess is that these tomahawk heads are hammer forged in some other country by pretty good blacksmiths, perhaps India, using what appears to be decent steel .. and are then imported into the states by vendors like this one who buy a stock of cheap-O handles and then bash them in with no concern for fitting them. A thick slathering of oil, a card stock wrap of the head with cellophane tape, some bubble wrap, and then a cardboard box finishes the shipment up.Bottom line: If you don't mind buying a proper handle and doing a fair bit of grinding and filing ... and then sharpening ... followed by some careful fitting of that handle into the head, then this might be a fun project. Just be advised: this isn't a $19 tomahawk ... no sir ... after it's all done, you're going to be about $27 into it. Don't even bother corresponding with the seller, either ... he couldn't care less about the handle not fitting. Hey, put some bubblegum around it ... it's not my problem.

First things first I love the tomahawk itself. Lol I'm still sharpening it 2 weeks after buying it cause the metal is so hard, which is a good thing to me, bad thing if someone is going to be throwing it at hard surfaces cause when brittle things break they turn into a shotgun blast. I personally love this tomahawk, it's small enough to work with, not to huge to have to try and work around. Seating the handle was one of the only things I had to do with the handle itself to be able to use it, because the tomahawk itself didn't sit properly at first. And about the sharp problem with the tomahawk, don't be discouraged from buying this. A lot of manufacturers try and make they're tomahawks sharp, but end up losing their heat treatment, so this really wasn't a big deal to me. I think that's why the metal is so hard to be honest.To summarize my order, it arrived quickly, the item was delivered intact, and it was the product I wanted.I would recommend getting this tomahawk to anyone just because the steel used in this bad boy is insane! Yes, you're probably going to have to work at it to get it the way you like it, but it's a tomahawk. You do that with almost all of the good ones. Hoped this helped someone.

Poorly made axe head. It's a chunk of bar stock with some strapping wrapped around a mandrel and then welded in place. The cavity inside the eye is so big that you can't get it set to the haft, so it comes loose. I tried reshaping it a little to get to where it would settle together, at which point, I ran out of haft. So now, I either have to bore weld it and re-shape it to shrink the eye back down to size, or finish shaping it as it is and make a new haft. Was hoping to have something fun for my 8-year-old while he's stuck at home.I'll be buying something more reputable. I see Cold Steel has their stuff down to about $30 now. Will probably go that way. Wish I would have sent this one back instead of trying to re-work it, as now I'm assuming it's unreturnable.Wouldn't even consider buying this again, unless I had tons of free time.