Pros: Balance
Cons: None
Used item, poorer quality, or careless shipping?
Let me preface my review by saying that I have been a fan of both Cold Steel and Knife Center over the years. With that, I have to say I'm less than pleased with my Trench Hawk purchase. It arrived without factory packaging loosely banging around in the shipping box, pounding the smaller items in my order. The coating on both sides of the head was rubbed down to dime-sized bare-metal spots in a couple of places, and these were located under the sheath. Given the type of steel, I question why such a cheap coating was applied...reminiscent of the Chinese hatchets found in Big Lots. The edge lacked the usual razor sharpness of Cold Steel products as well. I made this purchase based on this tomahawk's design, but the materials and workmanship are not up to the standards I've come to expect from Cold Steel since purchasing my first tanto in 1986. Compared to my razor-sharp, stainless SOG Fusion tomahawk, this Trench Hawk is less wieldy, slower to deploy, heavier to carry, more likely to rust in proximity to the body, and less sharp out of the box (factory axe edge). The sheath is a novel design, but requires too much fiddling to attach to a strap/belt/pack and to unsheath the tomahawk. On a positive note, with its longer handle and heavier head, and some additional sharpening and anti-rust coating, this makes a fine addition to my son's car trunk camping/survival kit, as the design lends itself better to rescue work and camp chores with self-defense a secondary consideration (read: cheaper to give away as a new hand-me-down than to return to KnifeCenter).
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