The Cold Steel Trail Hawk is fun as is but it fairly begs to be tinkered with.
In fact it is nice not to have to worry about an expensive finish and to just have at it! As an overgrown 12 year old I have been known to grip it tight while The Walking Dead is on. It excels at light work and like any good ‘hawk throwing it is awesome! When you are beating on it the roughness of it’s finish matters not in the least. The Cold Steel Trail Hawk is a blast to use, it is light and fast in the hand, and fairly well balanced. I addressed both of these issues in my simple mods. The Cold Steel Trail Hawk also comes with a set screw holding the head on instead of having a good press fit like a hand finished ‘hawk. Unfortunately the Cold Steel Trail Hawk comes slathered in a heavy black paint that hides the beauty of the steel. The Cold Steel Trail Hawk will never be mistaken for a sledge but it hammers in tent stakes just fine. I like the hammer head on this baby as it provides a bit more utility to me around camp than something like the Cold Steel Frontier Hawk or Estwing Tomahawk does. The blade is big enough for most light chores such as brush clearing, limbing, and splitting small logs for a fire. I want it to perform typical light hatchet duties around camp and deliberately sacrificed ultimate sharpness for a good working edge. I put a sharp but not overly fine edge on mine. The head is nicely shaped and with a little bit of work it will take a good edge. 1055 steel is a good tough carbon steel that is low on the “Wow Scale” but is a good choice for a tomahawk like this. The Cold Steel Trail Hawk has a decent sized head made of 1055 steel. The ergonomics on the Cold Steel Trail Hawk are about as basic as it can get as it is nothing more than a hickory handle topped with a tomahawk head! There is no fancy materials or techno-gee-whiz in this baby, it is about as traditional as tomahawk as you can get. Check out the review of the base ‘hawk and then I’ll detail a few of the mods I made. It is fun to throw and beat on, but I think the Cold Steel Trail Hawk is best when it is used as raw material for a DIY project I had a blast modding mine. The Cold Steel Trail Hawk comes a bit rough from the factory but for 24 bucks I think it is a good value. When it arrived I was very excited to get it into my hands as it was my first wooden handle tomahawk. The Cold Steel Trail Hawk is the picture of a no frills traditional tomahawk.
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