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Rana_Palantir

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Making a club
Sep 20^th, 2004 at 7:08am

Aside from the standard 'find a stick of the right size', does anyone have any suggestions on how to make a decent quality club (not necessarily for throwing)? What wood to use, how to carve for best balance, pictures I can emulate, anything like that? I actually made a really simple one a little while ago, kinda like it, now want to try something a little more complex.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Making a club
Reply #1 - Sep 20^th, 2004 at 10:55am

Well you could use like the indians use to use was a gun club. They took the stock off the fire arms and decurated. They look sharp. You can still buy the from www.atlantacutlery.com
Also i have heard the the autrian aborigine used to make a very large boomarang. They could use the the boomarang as a throwing stick or as a war club. I will try to get you a link for the big boomarang picture tommorrow. It is on microsoft encart enclopidia. If i was going to make a club that it what i would do, make a big boomarang.

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english Ex Member	Re: Making a club Reply #2 - Sep 20^th, 2004 at 12:27pm I'd go with a gun-stock warclub, as Gun says. Or you could try a ball-headed club, but this is quite difficult to carve. Look nice though. Look up images on the net somewhere.
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Reply #3 - Sep 20^th, 2004 at 1:14pm

I have a friend that went to africa a little while ago, not sure where exactly, to help some of them with their water system (she's a hydrologyst)
Anyway, the natives there kill lions and such with spears and clubs. From what her and her husband told me, the clubs are about 2 ft. long, slightly ball-headed, and like all good clubs, have that feeling of power to them that makes you just want to CRUSH something.

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Johnny Funditor Offline Posts: 620 Goodlettsville,TN Gender:	Re: Making a club Reply #4 - Sep 20^th, 2004 at 1:45pm The Plains Indians had a nice club where you lash an oblong stone onto a wooden handle. Some had a leather/rawhide neck from stone to handle to give it more power. Pretty deadly weapons, look at Custer and his boys......
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S_ALLEN Descens Offline Posts: 162 N.Y. Gender:	Re: Making a club Reply #5 - Sep 20^th, 2004 at 7:08pm If you're interested in ball headed clubs check out this site he has some semi finished ones that are sweet http://www.gunstockwood.com/index.html
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solobo Senior Member Offline Posts: 382 Reno, NV, USA Gender:	Re: Making a club Reply #6 - Sep 20^th, 2004 at 9:49pm Nice clubs. There's nothing like sheer, crushing force, at least for fun.
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Rana_Palantir Novicius Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 6	Re: Making a club Reply #7 - Sep 21^st, 2004 at 6:14am Thanks. Ball-headed clubs look like too much work for my current carving skills -- but I think I might be able to manage lashing together one of those stone-headed ones, if I can find the right stuff... Clubs are fun.
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solobo Senior Member Offline Posts: 382 Reno, NV, USA Gender:	Re: Making a club Reply #8 - Sep 21^st, 2004 at 10:26am yeah they are.
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Douglas_The_Black Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Hakkaa päälle! Posts: 3491 Salineville Ohio Gender:	Re: Making a club Reply #9 - Sep 21^st, 2004 at 3:34pm clubs are nice i made one by getting a log and hacking it into shape with my axe. But I would rather have a war hammer any time...
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Hellfire Ex Member	Re: Making a club Reply #10 - Nov 22^nd, 2004 at 9:05pm i heard that the indians used a bit of nature to help them make a club. They took a young sapling of the right dimensions and tied it into a knot. A few years later they hacked it out of the ground and had a fat knot of wood to splatter brains good thinking
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Matt_C Funditor Offline Cruachan!!! Posts: 736 Cheshire, England Gender:	Re: Making a club Reply #11 - Nov 23^rd, 2004 at 5:48am The last club I made was really simple. I took a nice bit of round fence post, cut it down to about 1 and a half feet, then made a inch strip of mild steel, wrapped it around the head of the club and then wrapped the head in duct tape.
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Douglas_The_Black Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Hakkaa päälle! Posts: 3491 Salineville Ohio Gender:	Re: Making a club Reply #12 - Nov 24^th, 2004 at 7:37pm I just get a stick round off the top and make a hand hold.
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Hellfire Ex Member	Re: Making a club Reply #13 - Nov 30^th, 2004 at 6:24pm i like what johnny said. take a oval shaped relatively large stone and jam it into a large club, wrap it in rawhide. i suppose custer and his buddies got splattered with those.
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english Ex Member	Re: Making a club Reply #14 - Dec 1^st, 2004 at 1:03pm Probably not too much - remember, the Lakota and Cheyenne had Winchesters as well as clubs. But I think they do sound like most kick ass clubs.
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