stone headed war club

[Hammerhead]

i was reading on another forum a good man was thinkin bout making a stone headed war club by spliting a sapling and putting the head into the split well i stole his idea so im workin on a war club now ill try to post pics

 

[JamesG]

Put the wet rawhide around the head and around the branch. To reenforce the weak points.

 

[Hammerhead]

ok where could i get some rawhide cheap

 

[hoochiepapa]

Grocery store, a rawhide dog bone. Just soak it to get it soft. :thumbsup:

 

[Hammerhead]

ok never thougt bout that

 

[hoochiepapa]

I don't know about the brown ones, but I have used the white ones with success.

 

[Hammerhead]

ok is there enough in a rawhide bone to wrap a war club

 

[hoochiepapa]

I bought one of the BIG ones, and had enough to make two knife sheaths. :thumbsup:

 

[MSW]

wow, Mike, you're a clever guy ... hope you don't mind if i filtch your idea... the dog will never know...
:rotf:

 

[church son]

The brown ones are flavored and it does not come out, all right if you do not mind the critters following you around......Randy

 

[trent/OH]

wow, Mike, you're a clever guy ... hope you don't mind if i filtch your idea... the dog will never know...
:rotf:

Yeah, real clever. When we moved the sofa to set up the Christmas tree, I found the dogs had stashed 3 knife sheaths, a tomahawk cover, a primitive quiver, and a drumhead! :redface: :bull:

 

[hoochiepapa]

I can't take credit, I think I got the idea from Spence. That guy knows his business.
:hatsoff: to Spence

 

[mazo kid]

Grocery store, a rawhide dog bone. Just soak it to get it soft. :thumbsup:

Yep, have done that a couple of times, still have 2 in original wrapping. If you cut the softened rawhide in a spiral (kinda like using the LaceMaker) you can get 1" (or whatever width you desire) by at least a couple of feet long strip, depending on width of strip and size of rawhide.

 

[shovelhead]

The handle is the easy part- how are you making the stone warhead?
Wicked cool weapons.

 

[Hammerhead]

warheads done i took 4 hours and sandpapered a groove in it

 

[shovelhead]

How did you form it?

 

[Hammerhead]

what ya mean by form it

 

warheads done i took 4 hours and sandpapered a groove in it

The groove in a stone head is/was usually chipped in, using another stone. I've never heard of "sanding" the groove. Unless the head is made of very soft stone?

 

[Hammerhead]

trust me it aint a soft stone what i mainly did was take a small ballpien hammer and knocked some chips in it to start hte groove then went through quite a few pieces of sand paper for several hours and finished the groove into it

 

[LaBonte]

Most western stone club heads are made from sandstone and some, especially No Plains of soapstone - both fairly soft stones easily worked by comparison to granite, etc..
Not on those pics of originals how smooth the groove is? A combination of chipping and then "sanding" using other stones to smooth the groove.
Also on most western clubs the entire grip is quite small in diameter and then covered it's entire length with rawhide. This makes for a "whippy" strike and is virtually unbreakable.
Late period (post 1870's) clubs at times had a hole drilled in them rather than wrapping the wood around in a groove. They were were then lashed on using rawhide as normal.
To view a bunch of originals see - use stone club or club as a search term: http://anthro.amnh.org/anthropology/databases/north_public/north_public.htm