I love to make useful items here in the Forges of Qohor (Northern Branch). But sometimes it is enough to just make something that is fun.
Here you will see how I used greensand casting with two sodium silicate bonded cores along with handmade patterns and coreboxes to make a cast aluminum bronze pipe tomahawk capable of holding its edge through the normal types of usage one might expect from a tool designed to chop wood.
The key to making it a really usable tool (toy) is the choice of C954 aluminum bronze and the work hardening process I demonstrate here on my homemade peening anvil.
Real axes have wooden handles; they aren't all one big solid chunk of metal, so I am using cores to mold the eye where a real wooden handle fits, as well as for the pipe bowl.
Mutilating dead tree carcasses is kinda morbid and I'm not that into it, so since standard tomahawk handles are available online for quite cheap, I just ordered some. But I suppose one could make their own handles if they had the woodworking skill and could live with having all that sap on their hands.
Once I figure out how to drill a long straight hole through one of the handles (or get smart and order some slightly more expensive pre-drilled pipe-hawk handles), this thing will be able to be used not only for chopping down trees and throwing at targets and hunting the vile children of the forest, but also for smoking (hopefully legal) plant products as well. If you're into that. Not to mention it ought to look pretty darn good hanging on a wall...
