Warclub patterns

[JBark11957]

Does anyone know of any good patterns or really good photos of warclubs? I'd really like to make on with some good carving on it but my online searches have not yielded too much. I'm not really ready to buy a $75 book from Dixie Gun Works just yet so...anyone?

John

 

[Kanu]

Some nice ones here: http://www.nativeworkshop.com/warclubs.htm

 

[LaBonte]

See these sites for originals - search under war clubs and clubs
http://www.splendidheritage.com/nindex.html
http://anthro.amnh.org/anthropology/databases/north_public/north_public.htm

 

[pichou]

Yes, always look at originals if you can.

Try here:

http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/tresors/ethno/index_e.shtml

This is good too:

http://images.rom.on.ca/public/

 

[StevePrice2]

Here's a pic of one. It has some carved designs on both sides.

Seems this particular war club belonged to a guy named Tecumseh.

It's for sale too, .... (are you sitting down?).........


















only $475,000.00

 

[dyemaker]

Bargain! :youcrazy:

I wondered just how authentic Tiger Hunt warclub blanks are. First off they only offer Cherry and Maple not Ironwood or Bodock. I don't know much about this. I imagine it would vary from tribe to tribe though.
http://gunstockwood.com/products.html#bclub

 

[RickD]

I have a couple from Tiger Hunt and they come pretty rough but are fun to rework..Heres one I did as a starter and I`m finishing up the Wolverine

 

[dyemaker]

I wonder if they would accept a customer's piece of wood for an order to be worked into shape. Some places offer that option. :hmm:

 

[RickD]

You know he might..I spoke with him on the phone and he seemed very nice..Give him a call and let me know

 

[pichou]

This is mine. Started out with a maple log and a chainsaw.

The curve on the back is the curve of the log.

 

[mazo kid]

Dixie has books by James Johnson...Accouterments I,II, and III. I only have III ($45.00) but it has 6-7 original warclubs with dimensions listed for most. I print the photo on graph paper and then it is a simple matter just to scale off on some 1" grid paper. Those are some nice sites listed, also.

 

[rkmeyer]

I would have been interested in the Tecumseh club If only it was a pair! Dern it. :cursing:
Dusty :wink:

 

[pichou]

Tecumseh Club? I hear you need a sponsor. :rotf:

 

[rkmeyer]

Do ya think Bill Gates would be interested?
Dusty

 

[wayne1967]

I was told that the ball club would be made out of tree growing out of the side of a bank were the grain is curved from it growing back up.

 

[pichou]

Many are done that way, where the handle is a stem, and the ball is the root.

 

[kansas_volunteer]

I've found trees that were knocked over when young, but continued to grow, like a tree pushed over by a flood. The smaller branches on the side and underneath such a tree tend to turn upward toward the sunlight. As they grow, they become big enough for club handles. By cutting the main trunk on either side of these upward growing limbs, you wind up with a roughly cylindrical head on a properly curved handle, just ready for carving into a traditional ball club. I think producing a club in this manner would have been easier for stoneage indians. After contact with whites, and steel cutting tools becoming available other methods of production would have become easier. It would be intersting to see if there is some correlation between the existance of the ball headed club and availability of steel tools.