Wow! Thank you! I just saw your comment. Still new to KZfaq and not getting notifications. I hope you are enjoying your live blade and trainer! Reach out if you have any questions!

Excellent video as always Icicle Micicle

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I just have to say I been watching hard2hurt over 5years and now I'm watching windgard wearables

Thank you for this comment-not many “new” bronze weapons on the market. It does have a niche’. Glad you like the look of the Empress

I always forget a lot of things. We do these videos in one take! Yeah, bronze has a lot of special properties. An Empress Tomahawk could be buried in ground, recovered 3000+ years later, and someone could hang a handle on it and it’d be ready to go. A very underrated material. Thanks for being #12!

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Thank you for your comment-we will try to get better at making these long form videos. Also we plan to be making Empress tomahawks for forever, so we’ll be ready when you are!

We’ll do better in future videos-my beard got grayer.

Thank you for the comment-we plan to be making Empress tomahawks for forever-so when you are ready, we will be ready!

Appreciate that!

Thank you!

@@wingardwearables my focus has been on function and concealment for the most part, but since I got some room to work bigger recently I've been cleaning scrub and brush and wiring up and old barn, scrubbing country dirt off the outside. Good stuff for a mild winter. Just got a set of cold steel kukris and trainers for me and the family to use in the yard for that tool touch familiarity. When I out the new stuff in there's all kinds of good metal the last folks left behind. I've watched a few other videos. I'm not on the apostolic level. Kids, new place, stüf happening, but they're saved for those rainy cold days florida gets here and there. I like your reasoning on the blunt edges and bronze from what I've gotten to skim from the 4 or 5 I've gotten to watch. I think I'll be a regular after I get the fires lit again.

On my 2nd attempt. Kids are lighting fireworks. My version of quiet time.

Enjoy your New Years Eve! We will be doing more videos in 2022-hopefully better in quality. Tune in whenever it interests you and time allows. Best regards!

@@wingardwearables indeed, sir. Likewise.

Thank you! Would be cool to see a picture of yours. Some out on the plains really got large-Lewis and Clark expedition made many for trade-I think they made one spontoon tomahawk that had almost a foot long blade, crazy.

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Yeah they definitely got me with the “stainless steel” marketing, but it was cheap enough to buy and mod. I got the mini tac skinner, ground a second edge, and zip tied a big ass safety pin so I could pin it to my swimming trunks. The AUS8 rusted at a lower rate than the mild steel safety pin, but it was still rusting within a day, sub 4 hours of exposure to salt water. Was a bit disappointing. Bronze is definitely way softer than any of those “soft” knife steels, but I did do some underwater experiments and the Empress, to my surprise, chops like a blur underwater. Simple wrist flick and it simple buries to the handle on fleshy targets. My go-to swimming trunks carry.

Thank you! This weapon can last generations. There are wood handled tomahawks still well preserved from the 18th century.

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Appreciate that! Glad to get that dialed in

This comment made my day. We plan to make them for forever, so reach out whenever you are ready!

I made the handle, I think from an ash dowel. Also patina’d the head using brass black. I used a draw knife and razor blade for a hand scraped finish. Definitely went thin for speed. I think Tod mailed the mace head to me and listed it as a “napkin holder” on customs lol.

@@wingardwearables that is amazing, I love your product designs . Also if I had the money I would definitely used it as a napkin ring as a joke lol

@@magicbeetle2292 yeah, if Wingard Wearables ever makes me a rich man, I'll have to order more of these mace heads!

Thanks for this comment-very good to train-and we do offer trainers that weigh close to the live blades. We try to incorporate scalable effects with all of our designs-self defense is a complex topic-so scenario dependent-and it can be handy for a single tool to be capable of less lethal force all the way to potentially deadly force. Depending on the anatomical target, the tomahawk can be instantly incapacitating.

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it 👍

Thank you! There are some really cool Bronze Age battle axes in museums-dug up after being buried in earth for thousands of years. Glad to be carrying on with this material in this application.

Thank you! Going to file brand yours soon! Also really looking forward to trying out the shoulder carry system! Best of fortune and BE EDGY

@@wingardwearables awesome!! Yours should arrive today.

Tater Tot has now directly interrupted about half our videos. Atrocious behavior. \

Hell yeah. I dream about that place. Counting down days until vacation.

I don’t believe these tomahawks would do well on piercing layered Kevlar in a way that could create an incapacitating wound. I have tested the Empress and Backripper on layered Kevlar and just the very tip of the metal barely gets through. However, the hook side can be used to hook into fabric based armor to “tear down” an opponent to ground for finishing off with blows to unarmored portions of the body. All our tomahawks hold up very well for their intended use-percussive chopping, hooking and dragging heavy objects, etc. A properly wedged head-handle connection is quite strong. We have done a lot of stress testing on them and it’s very impressive how strong such a lightweight axe can be. In the future we may do videos showcasing true abuse of these tomahawks-just so folks know what these designs can and cannot handle, but they do just fine in their intended applications. Our tomahawks are each of different designs and throwing is far more abusive than the chopping and dragging motions that tomahawks are primarily made to do. The Backripper is not made for throwing. The Empress throws well, but don’t use wooden targets-it won’t stick as well and the load is too great. I use foam based targets with great success. Anyone can go to Home Depot or similar store and procure materials to make such a target. I use 2” thick polystyrene backed by 1/2” thick masonite board. Taped together it’s a large yet light target that the Empress does great on. The Stingray Tomahawk is made for throwing at wooden targets, but it is throws very fast and I found that flat targets, like boards and sawed tree rounds, could be very dangerous-if you have a handle impact the tomahawk can bounce back at you very quickly-too quickly to dodge. We recommend either round vertical tree trunk style targets, which eliminate the bounce back issue, or going with a flat foam target that absorbs a lot of the energy on handle impacts. Any wood handled tomahawk can eventually break under the shock and vibration of many throws. Glad you enjoyed the video.

@@wingardwearables Great, thoughtful answers. I appreciate it

If you go to the link in our KZfaq profile, just navigate to our store front and you should be able to order your Empress Tomahawk (or our other models). Thank you for the compliments!

That's how they left one star reviews

@@wingardwearables Either a rudely worded tablet, or all out war 🤣

@@wingardwearables LOL

We do-they are out of stock at the moment. Hopefully a small batch ready before the end of the month.

I love the old Cold Steel marketing videos. Not persuasive, not educational, but fun energy. Dunno what the future of those videos will be, since Lynn Thompson has sold the company.

@@wingardwearables yeaaaaah that was a bummer :-/ I guess we'll see

No need to unlearn anything, your brain is big enough to add some thing new. I never thought of a concealed carry tomahawk

We haven’t considered that, and haven’t really considered making pure camping tools either. Everything so far has been made for everyday carry. I think a bronze camping hatchet is possible, but steel will perform better in utility chops and, even in very corrosive conditions, will perform well-it will require to be coated and cared for with greater attention than bronze to avoid corrosion. That’s a worthy trade off. No one material can do everything well.