SOLD Empress Tomahawk

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Are you adventurous? Then upgrade your everyday carry with the Empress Tomahawk--the sexiest spontoon tomahawk on the market and the perfect compact and concealable self defense blade for these hot summer days! The rust proof high strength silicon bronze tomahawk head is hung with three hickory wedges to the 13" long straight grain hickory handle. The hickory is charred and hand rubbed with boiled linseed oil for a highly water resistant finish.

Refer to attached .pdfs for close up images of the Empress Tomahawk that's for sale.
Weight: 8.4 oz.
Length: 13 inches
Head Length: 5 1/2 inches
Spike length: 2 1/4 inches

The front spike is shaped like a megalodon tooth. The curved talon blade is contoured to the waistline for streamlined inside-the-waistband carry and it's hand sharpened to a knife-life edge. The handle has a shark-like profile and is scarred with 7 "gill lines" for grip retention.
This specific Empress weighs just 8.4 ounces. Most tomahawks on the market are well over 16 ounces in weight and feel sluggish and dead-in-the-hand but the Empress is lightning fast, lively, and lethal!

This brand new Empress Tomahawk is yours for $195, comes with a quick release conceal carry system and US Shipping. We've shipped these to Canada--price is $205 shipped. Prefer to send you a Square invoice but we can do PayPal. We ship next business day! No trades.

Thanks!

Zac with Wingard Wearables

*Edit 06-29-2020 - this Empress Tomahawk is shipping out to a customer in Utah, but we will post another soon! Thanks for your interest!

 

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That excellent beard alone makes half the sale!
Curious about the choice of bronze for the head though, isn't it pretty soft?

 

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That excellent beard alone makes half the sale!
Curious about the choice of bronze for the head though, isn't it pretty soft?

Thank you for the beard compliment and your question! The Empress Tomahawks use high strength silicon bronze for several reasons.

----- Bronze is harder the flesh and bone. Thousand and thousands of men have been slain by bronze blades and today, the modern bronze we use in the Empress tomahawk is even high strength than the historic blades. We've even had a couple of customers evaluate their Empress tomahawks on pig carcasses of different sizes and both the front peircing spike and the curved hook blade were excellent. Check out links below:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CB3U658Dh-a/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAvndrXjaWJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
----- Bronze is not brittle. During the Bronze Age and into the Iron Age, if bronze blades were subjected to too high of load the blade would bend and there were accounts of warriors straightening the blades via cold working in the field. I verified this by clobbering a prototype Empress into solid concrete. The blade bent and I had it straightened in a vise in seconds. Some file work and a dab of patina had it looking good and it was back to in skull piercing shape. When you subject a high hardness tool steel blade to too much structural load, it breaks.
----- We also had a lot of interest in a concealable tomahawk at a more accessible price point than our Backripper tomahawk. The Backripper costs $305 because it's hand forged from W1 tool steel and properly fitted on a straight grain hickory handle--the head and handle are our own design. The Empress is $195 because it's sand casted silicon bronze. In time it will costs less to make, but it actually requires a lot more money up front (the investment in the mold cost thousands of dollars) and it will always require way more of our time. We get our Backripper heads from our blacksmith, ready to hang on the handle--we pay him for the materials and the skill to hand forge and finish the heads in this excellent condition. But the Empress heads come from sand casting requiring a lot of sanding, hand filing, and sharpening, to get the desired form, function, surface texture, and patina we desire in our quality products, all before being properly hung on a straight grain hickory handle of our own design. Still, we successfully achieved a more accessible price point. We have confidence that, with time, enough customers will get their Empress to help us pay off the steep up front cost.
----- The Empress has a very clean, simple arc to the side profile that makes it look very attractive but actually is an intersection of very complex shapes that can easily lose it's attractive appearance with seemingly minor dimensional variability. Very, very difficult to get a clean, simple look. A lot more time consuming and expensive to forge and way more careful on the stock removal afterwards--we estimate a steel version would cost more than $400. Quality is everything! But you gotta pay for that increase in time it takes to make it! So you can see another reason we went with Bronze--we can sand cast a consistent shape that gets the perfect look. Hand forging is GREAT, but it is too variable when we want such a tight look.
---- Also, bronze is 100% rust proof, and folks in the military commented it'd be nice to have a compact tomahawk that they could expose to salt water without issues. And I enjoy the beach and carrying quality blades, yet don't want to rust a steel edge. So if you want a blade to take on a day at the beach, this will do just fine. Tucks in your swimming trucks, no problem. Even the wood is specifically treated to be water resistant and we've tested this entire assembled tomahawk underwater. And even though water is ~800 times the density of air, the Empress even chops fast underwater! Check out the link below.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-alBWojN4B/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link