Thread: Tuatahi axe project - small axe / hatchet for hunting, tramping, fishing etc

Great project and I think your specs are pretty much on the mark.

Follows is a picture of a tomahawk I carried for over 30 years of "armed tramping" . It weights 1120gms complete, and the handle measures 600mm - which is a bit longer than desirable, but allows it to cut like a bigger axe. I reckon this wee chap saved our lives one very difficult afternoon in deep Fiordland when all three of us in a party got hypothermic - somehow we realised (mostly you don't, which is why hypothermia gets so many people) what was happening and were able to warm our way out of it with a big fire provided by the wee tomahawk.