Sorry, I missed that. The War clubs were made usually from wood taken from tree roots, which is always more dense, and harder Than the wood found in the trunks of the tree. Even spruce roots, and hemlock roots, which abound in the forests of Eastern Canada and New England, produce a very hard wood for these purposes, where few " hard-wood " trees grow. The secret was to find a source that provided a very hard ball, and a strong, but light weight "shaft " or haft for the handle. If you want to carry around a lot of weight, put a stone head on a branch to create an "axe-warclub".
I have never heard of the wood you describe, but will not beat myself up about that. We rarely get much information on exotic woods that grow anywhere in the Southern Hemisphere. Some of the companies that specialize in expensive imported woods will list these woods from time to time, if they can buy a shipment at a price they believe they can sell and make a good profit on, but there are still lots of woods out there that Americans just don't hear about at all. Most of the woods that are imported are being used currently to decorate ornate luxury Yachts that cost millions of dollars to build. The woods also see some use in high priced home construction- if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it-- that kind of house. Sometimes, there are left overs that are sold off to specialty companies like Woodcraft,(www.woodcraft.com) for instance, which sells small pieces of wood for wood turners to use to make pen and pencil sets.
Thanks for the explanation, and for correcting my mistake. I was mostly writing my concerns about people using the kind of wood knobs found in hobby shops here in the States, because a lot of people don't know one wood from another. The stuff sold her can be anything from Basswood to Birch, but mostly will be soft pine, that splits too easy for this kind of use. Again, the woods here make an okay decoration, but a useless club, or tool.
