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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: Dabears on January 10, 2013, 08:02:37 PM

Title: Tomahawk Junior- how and to who was this marketed to?
Post by: Dabears on January 10, 2013, 08:02:37 PM
any history is welcome.... im just curious as to the reason there had to be made a 'junior' version....  there is plenty of info out there on this one... but i see the mfg altered is name stamp a few times....
Title: Re: Tomahawk Junior- how and to who was this marketed to?
Post by: keykeeper on January 10, 2013, 08:17:23 PM
"Junior" was probably just a marketing ploy, as back in the day, crate hammers such as this were used to open yesterday's equivalent of today's cardboard boxes....wooden crates. They probably billed these toward a clientele that received things in smaller crates, thus the need for a smaller crate hammer to open or close the crate.
Title: Re: Tomahawk Junior- how and to who was this marketed to?
Post by: Dabears on January 10, 2013, 08:22:26 PM
makes sense..... saw somewhere that they were in a catalog as cigar box openers....
Title: Re: Tomahawk Junior- how and to who was this marketed to?
Post by: mikeswrenches on January 10, 2013, 09:19:19 PM
Bridgeport also made a Tomahawk that was larger than the one you have.  They have wooden scales on each side(like a PH screwdriver).

A cigar box hammer is smaller yet, and is much more scarce.

Mike
Title: Re: Tomahawk Junior- how and to who was this marketed to?
Post by: Billman49 on January 11, 2013, 11:27:47 AM
You can still buy crate hammers new today - usually made in India or China, and these days called a 'multitool', 'survival hatchet' 'trucker's friend' 'hammer axe' etc
Title: Re: Tomahawk Junior- how and to who was this marketed to?
Post by: amertrac on January 11, 2013, 03:06:56 PM
You say that info is available . Under what name?  bob w.
Title: Re: Tomahawk Junior- how and to who was this marketed to?
Post by: Dabears on January 11, 2013, 04:12:26 PM
oh no! I meant that there is plenty of info on the item-- i was interested in the social context of needing a 'junior' version!
Title: Re: Tomahawk Junior- how and to who was this marketed to?
Post by: pritch on January 11, 2013, 11:50:54 PM
It's for the kids to throw and practice with! LOL

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y55/gpritch/rendezvous07022.jpg)

(I took this at the Ft. Bridger Mountain Man Rendezvous a few years ago)
Title: Re: Tomahawk Junior- how and to who was this marketed to?
Post by: Dabears on January 13, 2013, 12:51:39 AM
That's great!!!!