The Tomahawk hooking piton has been designed as a thin nailing piece, specifically for thin seams. With the use of a hammer or hand placed into “beak slots”, it has also been crafted in such a way to give the user easier and quicker cleaning to prevent the piece from being fixed.  

 

When used in clean placements it has great hooking potential, the curved stem provides great clearance over irregularities in the rock surface. The “beak” may be buried into deep bomber placements.  

 

The long-curved stem gives great hooking action and forward positioning of the cable hole. This hooking action also helps the Tomahawk to stick strongly when hand placed, when used more of a hook than a piton.  

 

As well as this, there are four hammering surfaces that may be used to clean the piece- two for upward hammering, one for downward hammering, one for upward hammering, which through rotation, levers the blade outward.  

 

The cable hole is generously designed as allowing up to 5/32″ cable. It is also fitted with a two tie-off holes. The two tie-off holes on the #1 and #2 sizes will accept a single strand of 9/16″ supertape webbing or a bight (strand doubled-over) of 1/2″ tie-off webbing.The two tie-off holes on the #3 size will accept a bight of 9/16” supertape webbing and the top hole on the #3 size will accept a carabiner, for horizontal placements or for racking purposes. 

 

If the user has no knife blades or RURPs left- As a last resort, the Tomahawk can even be places in a horizontal crack when using the top hole has a tie-off (though this was not how it was designed to be used).  

 

Usefully, the top the hole may also be used to assist in cleaning the Tomahawk, given that it is fixed or stubborn during removal, with the gentle use of a funkiness device and a 3/16” quick-link or loop of tie-off webbing.