The Tomahawk and Knife Thread

[Sailor.X]

This thread is about the use of the to most common personal melee weapons and tools of the Modern Age. The Tomahawk and the Knife. Feel free to post pics of each you have used both in and out of the Military. I will start it off.

The US Navy Utility/ Combat Knife. Being in a Boat Unit I had one of these. Pretty damn handy for cutting line and opening cans. I still have mine.

The United Cutlery M48 Destroyer Tomahawk. This is my newest Melee weapon. I just got this one yesterday. It has replaced my Fiskers X7 in the weapon hatchet role for me.

 

[The Whispering Monk]

Tomahawk looks nice, but I've never been a fan of weapons that have a dangerous end pointing back at me. (Spike on the back)

 

[Sailor.X]

Tomahawk looks nice, but I've never been a fan of weapons that have a dangerous end pointing back at me. (Spike on the back)

It is a good weapon. As to the spike you train around it just like with other Tomahawks. Plenty of training videos out their showing how to do it. I got this one because of the spike. I can use it for some breaching If I need too.

 

[Bear Ribs]

I wonder if anybody can identify my throwing ax. It's an odd piece with a cutting edge along the top of the head and two forward faces that come to a slight point, with some kind of prying tab on the back. I've heard it called a "Vaegach" or something like that but never seen another like it, nor found such a term on the Internet.

 

[Sailor.X]

I wonder if anybody can identify my throwing ax. It's an odd piece with a cutting edge along the top of the head and two forward faces that come to a slight point, with some kind of prying tab on the back. I've heard it called a "Vaegach" or something like that but never seen another like it, nor found such a term on the Internet.

Is it this one?
The Kangee Tomahawk.

 

[Large_Farva]

I wonder if anybody can identify my throwing ax. It's an odd piece with a cutting edge along the top of the head and two forward faces that come to a slight point, with some kind of prying tab on the back. I've heard it called a "Vaegach" or something like that but never seen another like it, nor found such a term on the Internet.

While the pic you provided is both extremely clear, well centered and beautifully lit, I'm unable to identify the cutlery that you photographed.

 

[Bear Ribs]

 

[Large_Farva]

I might be a dumbass - and I'm not trying to be a dick - but is that a name on the sheath that I can't make out?

I feel like this is a dumb question though, because if it was a logo you'd have started there.

 

[Bear Ribs]

I might be a dumbass - and I'm not trying to be a dick - but is that a name on the sheath that I can't make out?

I feel like this is a dumb question though, because if it was a logo you'd have started there.

This is a picture of a similar ax I found online. The profile is the same with the beard and sharpened upper edge, and it has the same chisel point on the back edge.

 

[Large_Farva]

I'm thinking it's just a stylistic choice and there isn't a specific name for a throwable tomahawk-style hand axe with an edge along the top and a flattened point on the back of the blade.

Where did you get 'vaegach' from?

 

[Bear Ribs]

Somebody mentioned it when I was on a hunting trip, told me that was the style of ax but I'd never heard it before nor found anything like that online.

It is a handy thing though, I can stick it into a stump when throwing much more often than most tomahawks due to it having that sharp upper edge.

 

[Carrot of Truth]

Thats one of the better designed ones Ive seen.