i was thinking, you guys have been talking about glans alot lately .  I wonder what would happen if you made one for a Trebuchet or onager

depending on your trebuchet and tools, you might be able to chip some rocks with a sledge hammer into rough glandes.  i doubt it'd be much use though... getting them to spin like a football (the main benefit of glandes, i believe) would be next to impossible...

Glans is singular, glandes is plural.  Weird, but that is Latin for you.  In any case, making glandes for a trebuchet would be a waste of time, in my un-humble opinion.  Glandes are intended to be slung so that they spin like a rifle bullet.  Every trebuchet I have seen, would impart a backspin to the load.  The specialized shape of the glans were therefore wasted.  I do not know if an onager would put any spin at all on its load, so again, no advantage.

The "dough" of which Siguy wrote, is just a mix of flour, water, and salt.  A recipe was posted by a member by name of Jareth, in

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.  I made an "Indian war club" out of this stuff and a piece of a broom handle, when I was a kid.  I eventually threw the club out, about eight years later.  It was still in good shape.  However, I lived in a dry climate; I think I remember someone here saying that in moister climes, the stuff tended to start molding after a year or three.

slinger, if the dough comes out sticky, add less water.

i had the same problem too.

helpful hint: if you are using teflon baking sheets, or any other kind of baking sheet, you should grease the surface first.  i peeled some of the teflon off the pan with my first batch, and if you don't grease a normal sheet, you may have trouble getting them off.

I haven't made these, but have made my share of bread and ship biscuit. Probably all that is needed is more kneading - when you knead flour based doughs, the gluten in the wheat starts to work to make the dough smooth and elastic rather than slitcky and lumpy. A mixing machine with a dough hook makes short work od this, but doing it by hand is easy and good exercise. Basically you want to drop the whole sticky ball of dough  onto a floured surface and then fold and press the dough until it smoothes out.

Flour recipe glandes made this way should be stronger as well.

Matthias