Daniel Winkler is an American custom knifemaker based in

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, US.

Knifemaking

Winkler has been making knives since 1977 and is a certified Mastersmith with the

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and designed and built the

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and tomahawks for the 1992 motion picture ''

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''. Winkler was primarily known for his Native-American or pioneer-style influenced designs until 2012. In that year Winkler became involved with military and tactical knives and tomahawks. Winkler is also credited in the New York Times for having his hatchets used by the Navy Seals, particularly Seal Team 6. Winkler designed the Sayoc-Winkler "R&D Hawk" in conjunction with Sayoc Tactical Group Tomahawk Instructor

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as a

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for modern military applications.Haskew, M.: "Sayoc Tomahawk",''Blade Magazine'', June 2009

References

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