winkleried
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As I stated on a previous thread my current (Combat) spear is a threaded harrow spike ( Try Farm and tractor supply stores) that originaly was threaded into a hoe handle. I removed the head and screwed it into a 7.5 foot 1.25 inch in diameter fir shaft to create an armor piercing thrusting spear.
I have also seen spike and blade SKS bayonets pined into handles and used as throwing javelins ( Thats what a lot of the SCA spear throwers in this area use)
I have three fish and frog hunting spears that are made from commercially available heads on 9 foot bamboo shafts
During Katrina (According to an article in Newsweek) one of the strandees took a shovel handle split it a bit and placed a descaled butcher knife into it. ( This is just another example)
Basicly a spear is nothing more than a knife/dagger with a very long handle so as long as the head can pierce your intended target, pretty much the construction is only going to be limited by current technology and your imagination and/or budget
Now assuming you are going to be using this for thrusting the english fight master George Silver wrote in 1599 "To know the perfect length of your short staff or half pike,forest bill,partisan, or glaive, or such like weapons of vantage and perfect lengths, you shall stand upright holding the staff upright close to your body,with you left hand,reaching with your right hand your staff as high as you can, and then allow to that length a space to set both your hand, when you come to fight, wherein you may conveniently strike,thrust, and ward,&that is the just length to be made according to your stature."
My apoligies for the 16th century syntax
Marc Adkins
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