I have been watching tomahawk reviews for years and they all are fine and well. Nothing stands out in my mind. The reviews have all gone as expected. However, when I saw this tool cut thru the shipping pallets, I was truly impressed. It looks like the blade to handle angle is absolutely perfect. Very good review. Very good tool.
If you had to pick this or the Woodsmans Pal to go into the bush with or to keep in your trunk for an emergency bug out type scenario.... which would you pick?
Hey, i was wondering if you could maybe pick of a Condor Tactana. I think it looks like a really cool sword but i would like to here what you have to say about it. Thanks, chris.
This weapon might not have been meant for wood processing but that's all I've used it for and it's done wonderfully. I have cut firewood all day with it xD splitting and all. Personally I don't know anything that chops a frozen hardwood with ease no matter what it was made for so I don't think that's a good way to tell whether or not it's made for wood processing
I even use it like a machete since it works well with digging so there's no problem with going into the ground and that helps around the campsite with the firepit and bathroom issues that you might run into out there if you're primitive camping like I do
im currently testing one of these out at work.I also figured to add a fobb to the sheath.So far Im pleased with the durability and cutting ability for the things I do with it ( liming,light chopping and digging, breaking ice,etc ) ill have to mod the handle as its not to comfy for extended useage. I think you are right in calling it specifically an URBAN use tool. Ill report back but thus far its not the greatest in the northern woods. Angled cuts to small trees and willows cut clean but sometimes snag up between the handle and the back of the blade on the follow through, as with liming. I also wish it had better hammering abilities cuz as a bush surveyor I have to hammer a lot of nails in the ground.lathe and building bridges for ATVs and tripods to protect survey evidence. Being up here on the Alaska Hwy the roads are crazy and lots of accidents involveing large vehicles for in the oil fields...I think this tool may end up in my truck as an emergency vehicle breecher. Love your vids bud!
ya not serious digging, but to get through that top "duff" layer in the forest to reach the solid stable ground. And chipping ice off snowmobiles,and stuff but mostly to check creeks and for the ice that builds in the areas dug down for setting survey evidence. Im talking like 6 inches at most...not trenches n shit lol
I see the tacti-hawk fad is alive and well. Any plans on procuring the Spyderco Szabo hawk when it hits the market? Knifecenter is taking pre-orders for $160. It's one of the more practical hawks made in "tactical" fashion imo.
Thanks for the review WAJK, I've seen these a few times online, and it looks like a versatile "breaching" tool as you mentioned! I've also seen 1 or 2 other reviews on yt, one that had a guy chopping wooden logs, among other "non breaching" things, and it did relatively well, to my surprise! Whatever the use, I think it would serve the user / owner... Very well, IMO. I would however agree with you sir, it would best be used, for "Extreme Situations". Thanks again bro.✌ I'm out! Lol
Love your reviews of tomahawks. Guess you have a bunch of them now.:o) Whats you favorite tactical for the moment? I like the Spyderco Szabohawk and Krudo Khatchet KHT. Have you hold a Winkler/Sayoc? And, one i really would like to try out is David Price, 2 Hawks - Warbeast. Custom made for $250.00. I think thats something. Maybe something for you...;)hehehe
It's not meant to process wood? Then what good is it? A "breaching" tool? For that one in a million chance that you'll actually need to "breach" something? There are better options out there.
Erick726 yeah, c'mon man! Max Venom designed this! He designs crazy Tacti-Cool stuff....the PKM is definitely a great EDC knife. This would be for like...y'know, walking around on a sunny day, searching for plunder.
+Erick726 Strangely, Boker's ad copy says it can be used as a skinning tool and held behind the head for finer tasks, along with the bits about using the top part o the head as a lever. It seems like they were trying to combine an outdoorsy hatchet with a breaching tool. Would probably work well enough as either if it was the only thing you had handy, though it looks like it would be uncomfortable to use for extended periods. As for the breaching part, obviously most of us have no use for that. And only Boker retailers would have a clue whether military or first responders are buying/using this tool.
I really like the look of this axe, but it looks more like a "bearded axe" than a tomahawk. Even so, it looks really really cool, and the shape of the blade makes me want to add it to my collection 😊
ok cool tool but why did you go all brush okie on the pc wrap you do know there are ways to tie that off all sano,other than a frigging piece of e-tape wrapped over it ,but otherwise thumbs up bubba
Just read a couple of very bad reviews on this item I was just saying looked like a great tool. The main complaints were that the materials were below average in quality. Too bad. I was really impressed, then depressed.
Hi again,I think this is more like designers hatchet, Christian Dior of hatchets. Maybe the cool design factor will push people to go for this one not so much practicality,cheers.
Say Heah, How's this for an idea ?, Take and put teeth threads on the blade which we can call male, Then tread a hollow handle with threads and we'll call it female. Then we marry the male with the female by screwing the male into the female, Then fill the hollow handle with epoxy until it hardens so it prevents the blade from undcrewing itself from the marriage of the hollow handle and that also makes that joint alot stronger too, so you have a joint that's hard and strong. (sounds sexy huh ? heh heh heh) Well that's how my Bokor Plus Aparro is constructed. I bought mine several years ago for a good price of $100.00 plus shipping. I thought at that price the knife wouldn't hold up. So I didn't push it, but atleast everybody else said, WoW this robust knife is made like a "Tank" My comeback would be, "Well would you trust your life on it" After examining and fondling the knife for a while, suprisingly they would say, "Why not" So my turn, So I decided to put it through its paces, after all it only cost me a "C" note right ? Another Golleyyyy, This thing held up. Then I got bolder, I batoned this bad boy. Why did I take so long, Well, I didn't have other knives that matched it and I like a set. A larger knife and a smaller knife. At 7" blade, it wasn't big enough to be a chopper and too big to add a larger knife to add as a chopper, and besides can you imagine how heavy those two knives would be ? I would prolly have to go with atleast a 9 1/2" or bigger to match them as a set, a far cry from one of my Fav's Rodent 7 and my Rodent 4 which is one of my Fav's if I go with a 2knife carry, hatchet and saw as my cutting implements. But I said what the heck, I took the Bokor Plus Aparro and team it with my Victorninox Delemont Collection Ranger Grip 78, I got the Phillips rather than the Corkscrew (79), I still have reservations because I found out you could use the corkscrew to untangle knots. Anyhow, I liked that idea, I can still use my Hultafors Bruks 17" Agdor range Hatchet which is becoming one of my Fav's on familiar short trips and my Wicked Tough Saw. You know, I feel like I had to run it past you because this set really is working out. I alway's said, two functions I look for in a survival knife is one, I expect a knife to chop and two, it should beable to be batoned. and the Aparro passed my criteria. No I can't carve with it, but I still could if I was stuck somewhere in a survival situation, I prolly wouldn't worry about carving out a spoon though, and the 4" blade on my Victorninox Delemont Collection Ranger Grip 78 can be used to do alot of work on wood, including making feathers and other delicate work, but so can the Aparro like to take off the bark to make a walking stick, no, it's not a carver, but I most certainly can baton with it. That kind of a marriage on a hollow handle knife, I feel the blade would break first before that joint broke, so yeah, I think I just came out with a more than sufficient bush craft/survival set and it didn't cost me a arm and a leg. I classify the Bokor Plus Aparro as a Tactical Knife, and recently I've been experimenting with my Tactical Knives how they fare in the bush. and surprise, surprise, I like it and the Victorinox Delemont Collection Ranger Grip 78 is a nice complement. So what do you think, Partner.
Boker should never design a tomahawk. They are better off ripping Fox Knives to the lowest common denominator. In heavy use that handle would be a blister machine. When u were chopping that heavy block it was more like chipping really. Dismal bite.
Agree & disagree at the same time. Bought mine some years ago, have several hawks & axes, some of them by Böker, which don’t design them themselves but cooperate with designers. The Chicken Hawk by DJ Urbanovsky is one example. The grip is the weak point of it, but ... that can be modified easily. Screw off the scales, add some cords around it - and there you go!
I have been watching tomahawk reviews for years and they all are fine and well. Nothing stands out in my mind. The reviews have all gone as expected. However, when I saw this tool cut thru the shipping pallets, I was truly impressed. It looks like the blade to handle angle is absolutely perfect. Very good review. Very good tool.
Dude you are a badass,this is what I like to see.no one else on TH-cam test as hardcore as you.I love it
You sold me. Great video man. You kicked it's ass and it just kept eating everything you threw at it. I'm ordering one asap.
What is really impressive is the fact that it's made with sk5 tool steel. But I wonder if the 18% tungsten makes any difference at only 56-58 hrc.
The larger axe head is there to enable the user, to split larger diameter logs!
If you had to pick this or the Woodsmans Pal to go into the bush with or to keep in your trunk for an emergency bug out type scenario.... which would you pick?
Hey, i was wondering if you could maybe pick of a Condor Tactana. I think it looks like a really cool sword but i would like to here what you have to say about it. Thanks, chris.
man that's like a freaking ninja axe or some shit, I love it. that's the choppy stuff man roll on. Great vid man, keep it real.
This weapon might not have been meant for wood processing but that's all I've used it for and it's done wonderfully. I have cut firewood all day with it xD splitting and all. Personally I don't know anything that chops a frozen hardwood with ease no matter what it was made for so I don't think that's a good way to tell whether or not it's made for wood processing
I even use it like a machete since it works well with digging so there's no problem with going into the ground and that helps around the campsite with the firepit and bathroom issues that you might run into out there if you're primitive camping like I do
im currently testing one of these out at work.I also figured to add a fobb to the sheath.So far Im pleased with the durability and cutting ability for the things I do with it ( liming,light chopping and digging, breaking ice,etc ) ill have to mod the handle as its not to comfy for extended useage. I think you are right in calling it specifically an URBAN use tool. Ill report back but thus far its not the greatest in the northern woods. Angled cuts to small trees and willows cut clean but sometimes snag up between the handle and the back of the blade on the follow through, as with liming. I also wish it had better hammering abilities cuz as a bush surveyor I have to hammer a lot of nails in the ground.lathe and building bridges for ATVs and tripods to protect survey evidence. Being up here on the Alaska Hwy the roads are crazy and lots of accidents involveing large vehicles for in the oil fields...I think this tool may end up in my truck as an emergency vehicle breecher. Love your vids bud!
RealBushMonkey Thanks, bro! Yes, I can see how this would be good for digging and ice breaking, too!
ya not serious digging, but to get through that top "duff" layer in the forest to reach the solid stable ground. And chipping ice off snowmobiles,and stuff but mostly to check creeks and for the ice that builds in the areas dug down for setting survey evidence. Im talking like 6 inches at most...not trenches n shit lol
I see the tacti-hawk fad is alive and well. Any plans on procuring the Spyderco Szabo hawk when it hits the market? Knifecenter is taking pre-orders for $160. It's one of the more practical hawks made in "tactical" fashion imo.
Thanks for the review WAJK, I've seen these a few times online, and it looks like a versatile "breaching" tool as you mentioned! I've also seen 1 or 2 other reviews on yt, one that had a guy chopping wooden logs, among other "non breaching" things, and it did relatively well, to my surprise! Whatever the use, I think it would serve the user / owner... Very well, IMO. I would however agree with you sir, it would best be used, for "Extreme Situations". Thanks again bro.✌ I'm out! Lol
That thing is a little beast!
Love your reviews of tomahawks. Guess you have a bunch of them now.:o)
Whats you favorite tactical for the moment? I like the Spyderco Szabohawk and Krudo Khatchet KHT.
Have you hold a Winkler/Sayoc? And, one i really would like to try out is David Price, 2 Hawks - Warbeast. Custom made for $250.00. I think thats something. Maybe something for you...;)hehehe
I like the CRKT Woods Chogan, heavy RMJ design but cheaper, and I prefer the hammer end to a spike.
that ax heads been around a long time
Help, this one or Gerber downrange tomahawk?
It's not meant to process wood? Then what good is it? A "breaching" tool? For that one in a million chance that you'll actually need to "breach" something? There are better options out there.
Erick726 Yeah but there are already tons of hawks and hatchets for wood.
Erick726 yeah, c'mon man! Max Venom designed this! He designs crazy Tacti-Cool stuff....the PKM is definitely a great EDC knife. This would be for like...y'know, walking around on a sunny day, searching for plunder.
+Erick726 Strangely, Boker's ad copy says it can be used as a skinning tool and held behind the head for finer tasks, along with the bits about using the top part o the head as a lever. It seems like they were trying to combine an outdoorsy hatchet with a breaching tool. Would probably work well enough as either if it was the only thing you had handy, though it looks like it would be uncomfortable to use for extended periods.
As for the breaching part, obviously most of us have no use for that. And only Boker retailers would have a clue whether military or first responders are buying/using this tool.
Still surprised you haven't got yourself a Winkler tomahawk, I know they are pricey but they are worth it.
If you sponsor the axe sure i will review it..
not everbody shits money man.....
Shorten the scales back is what needs to be done. No need for scales that high up on the handle.
Cut the scales just past the third screw. Reshape the scales just past that point. No need for that upper area having scales anyways.
Been looking at full tang THawks in this price range and thought the same thing, tempted to give it a go.
What did that pallet do to you? LoL nice video
Xris Coke It was born LOL
What is a good not so expensive Hawk for throwing ?
An Estwing Carpenter's Hatchet is really easy to throw, and not very expensive, though it's technically not a tomahawk.
Any of cold steels hawks that have a wooden handle
I really like the look of this axe, but it looks more like a "bearded axe" than a tomahawk. Even so, it looks really really cool, and the shape of the blade makes me want to add it to my collection 😊
Yep, just bought it off BladeHQ! Can't wait!
Looks like a ice skate blade kinda like the movie cast away
Do you prefer this or the carnivore?
Carlos Gonzalez Well, the Carnivore seems a little nicer, but it based on a custom axe and that it why it is also more expensive.
oh wow! ..... I'd feel like a Tacti-Cool Cyberpunk Viking with that....that'd be...that'd be something.
seriously, fucking cool. I love that.
ok cool tool but why did you go all brush okie on the pc wrap you do know there are ways to tie that off all sano,other than a frigging piece of e-tape wrapped over it ,but otherwise thumbs up bubba
no dillinger I had a good reason, I think it was that I didn't give a sh*t LOL
Just read a couple of very bad reviews on this item I was just saying looked like a great tool. The main complaints were that the materials were below average in quality. Too bad. I was really impressed, then depressed.
Yo bro.....i need some wood chopped you game.... just messing with ya.... thanks 4 sharing.
Hi again,I think this is more like designers hatchet, Christian Dior of hatchets. Maybe the cool design factor will push people to go for this one not so much practicality,cheers.
shit man if i took something like that in my head even with he
lmet plated with titanium i still would died...
nice
"It'll also devastate a,uh, bad guy..."
NakMuayify I was going to say "whoever you want to, because you have an axe!" but then I said ... er, bad guy.
WeAllJuggleKnives And it was lovely.
Pallets deserve no mercy
that handle looks uncomfortable
well ok as long as you qualify it like that,as a meaningful projection of artistic expression
that better be an oak stump. cuz you know how the youtube warriors get.
Good gift for a Viking lol
Killing pallets is my business and business is good.
I see those bloody fingers lol.
Say Heah, How's this for an idea ?, Take and put teeth threads on the blade which we can call male, Then tread a hollow handle with threads and we'll call it female. Then we marry the male with the female by screwing the male into the female, Then fill the hollow handle with epoxy until it hardens so it prevents the blade from undcrewing itself from the marriage of the hollow handle and that also makes that joint alot stronger too, so you have a joint that's hard and strong. (sounds sexy huh ? heh heh heh) Well that's how my Bokor Plus Aparro is constructed. I bought mine several years ago for a good price of $100.00 plus shipping. I thought at that price the knife wouldn't hold up. So I didn't push it, but atleast everybody else said, WoW this robust knife is made like a "Tank" My comeback would be, "Well would you trust your life on it" After examining and fondling the knife for a while, suprisingly they would say, "Why not" So my turn, So I decided to put it through its paces, after all it only cost me a "C" note right ? Another Golleyyyy, This thing held up. Then I got bolder, I batoned this bad boy. Why did I take so long, Well, I didn't have other knives that matched it and I like a set. A larger knife and a smaller knife. At 7" blade, it wasn't big enough to be a chopper and too big to add a larger knife to add as a chopper, and besides can you imagine how heavy those two knives would be ? I would prolly have to go with atleast a 9 1/2" or bigger to match them as a set, a far cry from one of my Fav's Rodent 7 and my Rodent 4 which is one of my Fav's if I go with a 2knife carry, hatchet and saw as my cutting implements. But I said what the heck, I took the Bokor Plus Aparro and team it with my Victorninox Delemont Collection Ranger Grip 78, I got the Phillips rather than the Corkscrew (79), I still have reservations because I found out you could use the corkscrew to untangle knots. Anyhow, I liked that idea, I can still use my Hultafors Bruks 17" Agdor range Hatchet which is becoming one of my Fav's on familiar short trips and my Wicked Tough Saw. You know, I feel like I had to run it past you because this set really is working out. I alway's said, two functions I look for in a survival knife is one, I expect a knife to chop and two, it should beable to be batoned. and the Aparro passed my criteria. No I can't carve with it, but I still could if I was stuck somewhere in a survival situation, I prolly wouldn't worry about carving out a spoon though, and the 4" blade on my Victorninox Delemont Collection Ranger Grip 78 can be used to do alot of work on wood, including making feathers and other delicate work, but so can the Aparro like to take off the bark to make a walking stick, no, it's not a carver, but I most certainly can baton with it. That kind of a marriage on a hollow handle knife, I feel the blade would break first before that joint broke, so yeah, I think I just came out with a more than sufficient bush craft/survival set and it didn't cost me a arm and a leg. I classify the Bokor Plus Aparro as a Tactical Knife, and recently I've been experimenting with my Tactical Knives how they fare in the bush. and surprise, surprise, I like it and the Victorinox Delemont Collection Ranger Grip 78 is a nice complement. So what do you think, Partner.
Boker should never design a tomahawk. They are better off ripping Fox Knives to the lowest common denominator. In heavy use that handle would be a blister machine. When u were chopping that heavy block it was more like chipping really. Dismal bite.
Agree & disagree at the same time. Bought mine some years ago, have several hawks & axes, some of them by Böker, which don’t design them themselves but cooperate with designers. The Chicken Hawk by DJ Urbanovsky is one example. The grip is the weak point of it, but ... that can be modified easily. Screw off the scales, add some cords around it - and there you go!
What a terrible design