Hello,
I'm new to this, but have many knives. I now want an axe. I want kind of a tactical look/ cool looking but has function. Doing minimal research I have found these two companies, Vectors Hawks and RmjTactical. These two interest me quite a bit. Anyone know much about them(quality)? Also what other companies are out there that make axe's comparable to these in the looks category?
Thanks,
Justin
brother justin,
first, sorry to be late getting on here, brother! - i have been down in the Hawk Dungeon
( - my little composites shop) losing track of the months, developing new handle and stick technologies for the Investors.
we are actually
NOT a tomahawk company; we are a composites company
that re-handles other folks' tomahawk and hatchet and axe heads on our current model, the
Gen 1 Mk 3 composite handle. - we are limited only by your imagination, in most of the possible appearances of the hawk -
we won't do anything vulgar or sacriligious, that's about it....
normally,
we recommend Cold Steel Trail Hawk heads (which unfortunately vary in quality, so we have to handpick them - but when they are good, they are SO good...), to put on one of our handles, especially for folks who haven't had experience with tomahawks yet - we cover that suggestion with our
Unconditional Happiness Guarantee -
which is not meant to be an advertisement, but an elaboration of
how much confidence we have in that particular head, and its value as what we consider to be a "proper tomahawk head"
(among many others).
while i still have faith in Cold Steel, it has had QC issues this year
(- which are limited to aesthetics, in our experience - the heat treats have been fine in our tests) that have slowed us to a crawl, so we are looking into making our own branded heads. - no word yet on when that will commence.
i have heard nothing but good things about RMJ Forge hawk heads, but have not handled one yet
(i think i might actually have one to handle, but my line-up is huge right now, so i am no help there). -
i am betting they cover their hawks just as we do - if a Maker voids their warranty when you get one of our handles on their head, it is still backed up by our Happiness Guarantee -
it is completely understandable to us that they would do that, they don't know us from Adam, after all.
one would want to have absolute faith in your axe or hawk, of course.
it's a
goal, if not a
reality.
there are a lot of pretty knives and tools out there, but
IMHO what you should look for are the Makers that back their product. we are fortunate that that is the standard in this community,
aren't we! 
:thumbup:
HTH.
vec
