Modified Cold Steel Spike Hawk practical use review

A practical field review of a cold steel spike hawk. I modified this slightly trying to combine the best features of the other two hawks Ive reviewed/own. Although it turned out well, it does have some minor weight and balance quirks. The blade profile is also thicker changing the cutting characteristics, not in a bad way, just different. Hopefully the base value of this tool was not lost along the way. In my opinion the cold steel hawks I own, while not perfect are still a good tool, priced reasonably. A word of caution though, they can be slightly addicting !

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[Warbeast911]

nice videos. if you would have to pick one hawk, what would it be?

[ZEUKI1]

@Warbeast911

Now that I own one.....I think I would go with the pipe hawk it is the most versatile in my opinion.

[Warbeast911]

@ZEUKI1 hm, intresting, i would have guessed ur modified spike hawk would be your choice, but with the pipe, , can i hammer with it?

[ZEUKI1]

@Warbeast911

I chose the pipe hawk because it has a larger diameter hammer face than what I was able to get out of the spike hawks spike. the blade profile is pretty much the same. And yes you can hammer with the pipe hawk, the "bowl" part of the pipe hawk is a solid hardened hammer face. I just recently did a review on it so you can check that vid out if you want to see it in use.

[mysss29]

Have you tried hammering with just the back of the loop on the other hawk?

[ZEUKI1]

@mysss29

No not really, not on anything harder than wood. These are heat treated with the blade harder than the eye.This supposedly keeps the eye from splitting under use. This shows when I first get one I clean up the roughness of the inside of the eye so it will not tear up the handle, it its much softer than the blade. I think if you use it as a hammer too much you will deform the eye and it will not fit the handle properly.

[masterorion3]

Also forgot to mention the spike can be used for digging, especially if the ground is hard or full of rocks. That is if you don't pack a shovel. But I think the hammer poll is much more useful.

[masterorion3]

I got a frontier hawk after watching your review but rec'd a spike hawk by mistake. I had the spike cut down more than you but still features a flat hammer face. Stripped the paint and cold blued it just like you did. Love it! Got a kydex sheath off eBay for $15. Great vids, keep it up.

[Buzurman]

@Buzurman I used a lot PIPEHAWK, TRAILHAWK, SPIKEHAWK.

[Buzurman]

If you decide to cut spike, better to choose TRAIL HAWK, it's better. I tried 3 tomohawk's and choose PIPE HAWK finaly

[TheLateBoyScout]

Great mod. Nice work.

[Kwimalo]

Awesome review! You may be one of the few people reviewing things on Youtube that actually knows what they're talking about!