Alright everyone. It's time for pictures!
I started off my restaining the handle on the frontier hawk.
It took some damage when chopping down a tree, because I missed the concrete just under the dirt.
Next is my favorite so far, the pipe hawk.
I don't know what this is, but this stain is on both sides of the hawk in the same place, and it withstood three applications of paint stripper.
And now the rifleman hawk.
All three together.
And some close ups of the handle work I've done.
I'm particularly proud of the inserts. I cut 3/8" OD copper pipe, polished it, sanded it, filed it, contoured it to the curves of the handle, reamed out the edges, and swaged the ends for a good solid fit.