“Reviewing” a Polearm I Made (& Thoughts on its Use)
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Polearms are sort of under-prioritized on the historical reproduction market, compared to swords. So I modified a cutlass by grinding it into a symmetrical, double-edged blade and mounted it on a hexagonal staff that I made from hickory boards. Not exactly a masterpiece, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
Works nicely for some cutting tests, and to discuss a few spear / polearm techniques.
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Everything is better on a stick. The quarterstaff staff is the next logical step in polearm evolution.
kebabs?
So...a twin-polearm ?
Why is it named quarterstaff while it is an absolute fking UNIT of length?
That sounds head-less pike to me
@@TTCello because historically, knights used 4 times the length of a quarter staff to beat up the samurai at the battle of Khwaresm in Central Asia.
Skall’s grunts sound like the default voice for a male character.
Skall is now the protagonist of this world
@@Necrodermis he's grinding smithing rn
* minecraft villager HMMMMM intensifies *
@@Necrodermis
He should play coop with Shad.
Shad would be tha king to rule the kingdom, and Skall would be a hero to protecc the kingdom. Not that Shad can't do it himself... but.. coop, you know. Roles distribution is a good thing xd
Cookies and fried chicken*
The best seasons are the seasons where the mosquitoes and other such insects are all dead
*Cries in tropical rainforest country*
Tigershark88 or T Rex 1000 I don’t think I could survive such weather. Much rather freeze my ass off
@@Necromantia_ad_Immortuos *Look at that piece of* ...umm... void
best season is harvesting season
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Pole arm manufacturers: only makes them with round poles
Skall: fine, i'l do it myself.
I'm still waiting for him to inevitably do what i did and get so frustrated he teaches himself blacksmithing
Ah, I see you've fashioned yourself a medieval social distance enforcer
Wasn't a greatsword a more suitable implement for such a use, being often seen as a bodyguard's weapon? Or an awl pike, if you're talking only about Medieval polearms?
@@F1ghteR41 You really only need something ~4 feet long, if your arms are at least 2 feet.
"Some protection is good, but in this case you want to be able to move your hands freely on it..."
Ahh, wiser words have never been spoken. I tell me girlfriend this every night.
Bazinga!
do you also put it on a stick for even better reach?
@@smievil r
Skall be looking more and more like an average medieval nobleman.
He’s certainly doesn’t have that condescending arrogant look that every proper nobleman born to their station has.
He's getting a bit thicc, but then again, the average person has gained like 10 lbs since quarantine started so shit happens.
Marijan Wolf - He’s joined the Moob Club For Men. Plus, he moved to Nova Scotia.. we run thicc Down East.
Thicc boi skall forever fresh
Way too many teeth.
Hewing spears were a major thing.
Japanese Naginata saw far more use in battle by samurais than their swords did.
Indeed the naginata was used both as an infantry, and cavalry weapon. When on foot the extra reach meant a swordsman would have to be at least twice as fast as the spearman. Plus the but end of the naginata usually had a spiked ferrule, so could be used for piercing strikes (tsuki).
The circular moves also build momentum, my sensei was a fairly diminutive Japanese woman, but hit like a freight train.
Wouldn’t naginata be glaive analogue, while yari is common spear( edit. european analogue would be ranseur or partizan if you think about it)
I saw he had one, a Viking style hewing spear in the video about monster killing. I recognised it immediately did to having the same spear head.
@@mariusdire If I'm remembering this right, the Naginata was originally a weapon wielded by women in defense of their villages during wartime, but proved effective enough that the men started using them on the battlefield. (Though I could be misremembering the details.)
(Let's also not forget that some women were samurai too, and notable examples were known for wielding Naginata and Yari into battle)
Talking about Naginata and forgetting all about Nagae Yari
For the sliding thrust driven by your rear hand (where your feet stay mostly fixed), try driving the thrust with your rear hip: rotate you rear hip forward while using a heel pivot to point your rear foot forward. Arm, hip, and foot motion should optimally all complete at the same time.
So a bit like a fencer’s lunge?
@@pjmeis5226 Other than the line of attack the spear follows, I consider it completely different: the feet can quite possibly stay rooted, you probably don't need to lean into the spear (I prefer to keep my back aligned to vertical), and the power hand is the rear hand while spear slides through the front hand guiding the spear to the target (zero power contribution from the from hand). However, it is really similar to the way many unarmed martial arts perform a reverse punch from a middle- or low-oblique stance.
"we need more rpg characters with polearms" in D&D 3.5 / Pathfinder a character that used a spear to trip people that a friend of a friend made was a terrifying force to behold
I made a gish with polearm. Hit them with the weapon then kick them til they fall down lol
In 5e, the polearm master/sentinel build is pretty brutal. Makes an excellent tank. Lets you lock down a surprisingly large chunk of the battlefield.
I'm playing one right now! Barbarian thri-kreen with a halberd... You could almost say its a halberd-barian :D
Use a spiked chain for extra lolz. I forget the specifics, but you got to knock them down, and AOO them if they did anything on the ground. Add rogue levels or some shenanigans for bonus damage while they're on the ground. It got dumb quick.
@@heckinmemes6430 With the right feats a spiked chain was just abusive. Loved it.
'Fall has done nothing wrong, ever'. Preach, brother. I hear that. Fall is my absolute jam. Love it. Best season.
This is crazy
*but can you wield a 4.6 meter Sarissa?*
They tended to be even longer if I recall.
It bugs me, how tf were they used? It must be tiresome just to hold it upright even with proximal end being embedded into the ground
Nooooooo, You can't just stab me from 4.6 meters away.
@@Ake-TL Two hands, mounting a small shield on your arm, and lots and lots of training.
How about a winged hussars 5 metre long lance ?
*swordstaff by shadiversity flashback*
It needs to be a thing
Speaking of swordstaffs, LK Chen makes a Han Dynasty era swordstaff called the "Sha" - th-cam.com/video/FTBagvDyTk0/w-d-xo.html
"we need more fantasy characters with polearms"
Shudders in polearm master + sentinel feat users
A friend of mine made me a rapier for my birthday cus 2 years ago I made him a long sword
how did you make a longsword ? any advices or tips for someone who's willing to craft some weapons but have zero experience ?
best friendship ever.
Such a bromance
@@Numbie. When I say long sword i mean a simple long sword I made a spatha but more longer and more designed
pommel and guard
@@cruzaider5339 well I'm still curious how you did that
I love you building your own stuff and learning how to get better at weapon smithing! I can already see you improving.
Damn Skall in on his way to get that Shadversity look
*oof*
This is karma for talking about his sword
I love it. Skall says that it's not pretty but holy shit do I disagree.
On the shaft additions thing:
I remember long ago I was practicing drawing straight lines and I decided polearms were a good way to do that. While detailing the weapons I always wondered where the wrappings would go on the shaft (no, I didn't need condoms back then) and tried many different positions on each drawing before sticking to a single long handle/shaft wrap, but it never felt satisfying. Where would it go? On the middle? Close to the blade? close to the bottom? On the whole shaft? It took my over a year to realize there should be no wrapping at all and the best thing is always the naked wood, even if it looks like a lazy drawing to some people. Sometimes less is more, I guess.
I do think the swordstaff simply was repurposed inherited swords. Swedes were notoriously well armed compared to the rest of Europe. The peasants even wore armour into battle after all.
From generations of plundering and warfare no doubt.
@@southpawmoose Yes and no I guess. The swordstaff mentioned by the landsknechts is obviously a lot younger than the viking age and arms and armour were locally produced in a fairly large scale.
@@foxtroika1698 Sweden had massive iron mining operations from ancient times to past WW2. This in turn became the foundation of their large weapons industry with brands like Bofors, Nobel and SAAB.
Wait for some guy who never studied history and just heard something online come in here and be like "akchually"
@@johndododoe1411 Depends on the area but generally yes. Which is partially why I think they simply repurposed old swords into polearms. They had more modern ones available after all.
Whats your favourite content about Vikings? What made you admire them? Any movie/book recommendation? Great channel i'm really addicted to it XD ( I'm Brazilian by the way )
Quarantine was getting to him
That and the bugs.
"Stepth back six paces or be smited"
Great video Skall. I like how you can mix humor, information, and a little historical accuracy into your videos, because of that I appreciate more weapons than just the casual two handed sword guy I used to be. I hope you and your family are well.
congratulations Skall! 😊 I'm so happy for you
Just imagine being skallagrams neighbor, you look out side your window and see this
Shoot, id go spar with him...
Oh, he's out in the woods, that's no backyard.
@@johnjacobjingleheimerschmi6655 you would "spar" with a man that is outside playing with his large shaft? You are a braver person than i
@@DH-xw6jp it's exactly what I did every day as a child, up until just a year ago. Besides, he's holding it backwards....
What about hitting an enemy with the guard on the staff? I'd imagine that is what you would want to do if you face someone in heavy armor. It would be pretty much the same as doing a murder stroke with a sword, except you don't have to flip the weapon around and grab the blade, you just adjust your aim a little.
I think that's what the guard is good for
@@strellettes8511 That S-shaped design doesn't really look optimal for it though.
I like the build videos for sure! Super interesting to see someones, who has a background in martial arts, thought process while making weapons.
6:17 "Make it easier to carry around"? Good idea. If it's shorter you could conceal it as a broom.
Yeah... What's he going to do? Take it down to the corner store? Imagine a tallish dude, all in black, wearing a mask, with a flippin' polearm on his shoulder!!😳
Polearms are definitely under-rated and under-represented in most games, media, and fiction.
Wow! The air pressure from those swings at 2:36 o.O
I made a tomahawk from a railroad spike and for the handle I placed the finished handle in a pvc pipe with an end cap filled with boiled linseed oil. I found that after three days, the oil moved its way up the handle 3/4 of the way. This might help you if you want to improve your pole arm.
I made a similar invention 20 ish years ago in the SCA as a foam boffer. My blade was longer, broadsword/longsword length range, the handle was only 4ish ft, and I included a buttspike, and the handle was round PVC. Was very effective in almost all my engagements - admittedly against even less trained foes.
The cross guard made fighting other pole arms rather nice: I could lock their weapon into the ground and slice up into them. Or pull shields.
The ability to shift grip along the length was critical.
It is likely even stronger. If it breaks it doesn't break where the glue is.
Why use wood then? Just glue the glue to more glue.
Fabrício Lara perfectly reasonable
Skall what do you think about joerg sprave’s instant Legolas device ?
I want one badly!!
@@taeshikkim6598 there is a commercial tactical version on joergs shop
@@edmundr2167 I'll be buying a new gun before one of those but it's on the list for sure. Kinda surprised Skall didn't try to test one out himself since they've collaborated before.
@@taeshikkim6598 I think because skall and his channel are not known for its Archery content.
@@edmundr2167 He covered archery and crossbows on this channel before but another viewer mentioned a while ago that he has some issues with bows since his shoulder injury. That may be the reason why he doesn't made videos on that subject lately.
But I think that the Instant Legolas would be interesting for him, because it made archery less physical which should benefit Skall.
used to know a lady who used polearm for padded weapons training, she kept it in low guard, nearly touching the ground, and if you squared up to her at all, that tip shot out with the sliding thrust (through front hand like you said) and she could strike anywhere at all. it was so intimidating to deal with imo
yo dude, just wanted to let u know i saw vids from u reviewing swords before buf from my body experience and things u were talking about i quickly cliked away i like that u restored some pride here with the fact u got into the crafting and the feel of it urself alot more here and really brought this staff soul to life to best ur current abilitys keep up the good work and keep learning
oh ye also if u didnt know check out miyamoto musashis the book of 5 rings if u like this kinda shit about combat also throwing a weapon can take away focus from certain opponents who r flustered or assume only that if u follow up momentum with a straight attack with body itself then u be able to reclaim ur weapon or his if u good enough bascially when u fight multienemy u wanna atack those coming towards u first so this spirit pressure momentum is kinda crucial at times i guess
By the end of quarantine, he will have made an entire armory to field a group of knights
Edit: Thanks for the likes! HEMA practitioners unite!
He will be the new prime minister of Canada. Lol
Ethan Stang can’t wait to see his rise to power recreated on Netflix
@@KirkWilliams300 rome is falling song intensifies.
For... some type of knightly uprising?
The Tzeentchian Representative is join in a heart beat, something to do honestly
Imagine not being able to bash, cut, or thrust. This post was made by the pollaxe gang
I'm enjoying these behind the scenes segments!
Great Video Skall! The quality of production and the interesting content are just outstanding :D Hope you're well.
Pity the Zombies that come to feast upon him and encounter his armory.
…Zombies are the endgame for 2020.
A meteor of alien zombies that sets off the supervolcano under Yellowstone, whose ash clouds block out the sun and bring a new ice age... at this point, I wouldn't even bat an eye
@@seanmadson8524 Why not one of the other supervolcanos? Like Napoli.
@@johndododoe1411
Why not all of them?
And Cthulu cries under a bridge.
I'd take zombies over the mindless screechers taking to the streets now
I’m no expert but isn’t that basically a glaive kinda like a European one though because the blade is more Roman ish
Glaives are single edged and do not have a proper point. Oftentimes they also have a guard at the back of the blade to catch an enemies weapon as well as a guard near the base of the hilt that is much smaller than the one skall made(Probably like 1 or 2 inches in length on the glaives I've seen)
But yeah it acts like a glaive but I'd say it's closer to a spear. Nice catch btw, was thinking the same thing though on further thought it's more like a spear
Absolutely enjoyed this video. Outside, great techniques, entertaining & fun all the way through. Fabulously AWESOME
I took a katana and pulled its handle off, but kept the fittings. I then used galvanized steel piping and couplers to create a new handle for it of the same approximate dimensions. I then took more galvanized steel pipe and made a mace of approximately the same size and weight as the katana. I then used couplers to make it so I could combine them. I now have a piece that can be used as a swordstaff / naginata or as individual katana / mace pieces.
Kid next door: Mom...he’s at it again!!!
Mom: Yes....yes he is.
Design flaw - in order to mount the sword you removed the most dangerous part of the weapon; the pommel.
Perhaps just mount a pommel onto your quarterstaff next time.
Just mount the pommel on the other end of the polearm
@@almachizit3207 or a pommel on both ends
What if it's not a polearm? What if it's a sword with an abnormally long wooden pommel?
@@2008davidkang Exactly, 90% of this sword is pommel, I'm surprised he can legally own that thing in Canada
Soooo, a flail?
This is like a weekend project I would do. I love tinkering in my shop (corner of my garage) with stuff like this.
I am so proud of you. Particularly of your grinding - unsure what tool you used but it looks good! In the future, try brass or copper for ferrules. It’s so much easier to work with and you can silver solder a sheet into a closed ring without sacrificing much strength. I’m looking forward to future projects. Making small blades is NOT difficult, it’s just time consuming (though I find forging and grinding swords to be very difficult).
“It’s still perfectly...”
Balanced, as all things should be?
“Agile”
Biggest oof.
Le ebic reddit moment
YuriMasterRace I don’t even use Reddit...
@@purplehaze2358 Sounds more Spiffy to me ;)
-"That's a lotta..."
-"Damage?"
-"steel!"
@@anthonybarker9123 Wow, Spiff really has grown a ton, didn't expect for many people here to know him
Skall man... you're starting to form a gut.
We all are so, whats your point
Super interesting. I've learnt so much from Skallagrim.
That's a neat arm.
Lamination will make it tougher an hickory, if I remember correctly, has a good amount of bend, so it may be good for whacking things and not suffering too much damage.
If I were to run a D&D character, it was going to be a barbarian dwarf with a spear.
Gluing is okey, glue in most case is stronger than wood.
You forgot to add a pommel on the other end for counter balance, and to end your enemy -rightly- bluntly.
I personly love seeing the stuff you make
Will be looking forward to that swordstaff build 👍
Must be a Black belt at rex Kwondo....just missing the flag pants
Pretty decent really. Now make a better one.
lol
You're the challenger! You first! If you can make a better one than he made, than he can rise to the challenge.
I think it looks quite nice. Simple and elegant.
I actually really like this polearm design, I've always wanted to make myself one but never really had a good course of action. So thanks for the fun project idea!
No counter weight/pommel I'm disappointed in you skall
Watch till the end of the video before commenting. He mentioned that he wanted to add a butt spike but ran out of time.
Running out of time is still going to make him disappointed so your argument is weird, to say the least.
Skall looks like someone photoshopped his head on someone else's body
Pretty sure he usually uses a gym to stay fit. Sadly that's not available.
@@MrJaydog101 Exercise is really important but you actually get way more results for the effort by not eating junk food. If you just eat real food like steak and broccoli and potatoes and whatever you can eat just as much food as when you ate junk food and yet still lose weight because now you are consuming much more nutrients and fibers that will naturally make you feel full earlier and longer. These are things that not many people know but it's 100% true that 90% of your effort should go to diet and it's 100% false that eating healthy food means eating bland tasteless food. It can take your body time to acclimate if you are just used to super salty and sugary chips and drinks to get the same satisfaction from normal food but once you do you feel so much better. You can start with richer and flavorful normal foods that may seem unhealthy but compared to junk food it's actually much better. Garlic mashed potatoes with butter and milk. Rare steak with steamed and buttered broccoli with salt and pepper and A1 sauce. Beef / chicken and bean and melted cheese in a burrito with avocado and green chile and salsa sour cream. Garlic chicken noodle soup. Cheeseburger with tomato and lettuce and onion and pickle on toasted bread with the crust ripped off with cheddar cheese and salt and pepper with mayo mixed with ketchup and bbq sauce for dipping. These are all foods that are delicious and are way healthier than any junk food you can buy, and much more satisfying. The only cache is you have to make it yourself, or pay a lot of money relative to the cost of junk food to have it made for you. But once you learn to be able to make a few of these meals yourself you will unlock the secret to eating delicious food and also being healthy and satisfied. Here's another good one. Split pea soup with garlic and onion and ham, I use 1 slice of bacon chopped up after frying to add to 1 bag of split peas for the soup, you can follow the directions on the back of the split peas. Nobody knows how to cook anymore, and buying premade food is expensive and fast food is addicting like drugs and so are sugary drinks. Try lemon ice water it's so good, you can even add a little sugar if you want to and it's still much healthier than drinking soda or energy drinks since those have such an enormous amount of sweetener in them, it's more than you would ever add to your own drink if you were making it yourself, try it and you will see what I mean. Buy a bag of lemons with the smooth thinner skin on the smaller lemons, they are always better than the lemons that you can get individually which are really thick skinned and large and bumpy. Squeeze a whole half of a lemon into a tall glass of ice water and stir in a spoon of sugar if you want to, it's better than any american soda you can buy.
People who get addicted to junk food ride a rollercoaster of weight up and down and it's almost totally out of their control it seems so I don't think you can really blame them, modern science has perfected cheap addictive junk food that even in lab tests with rats they showed that sugar lit up the same reward center in the brain as cocaine for the rats when they would pull the levers. It was never meant to be refined so much that's what causes the trouble. If you eat it in whole pineapples or by juicing oranges then it tastes so good because your body is rewarding you for consuming such a beneficial food. Once it's separated from that food and purified by itself it becomes like poison that has no nutrition and is highly addictive. You can buy a whole pineapple in the store for $3 and if you cut it up right, there are directions on the label and it should be right up a sword guy's alley then it is so sweet and refreshing and delicious, you can buy it pre cut up if you want to. Always try to buy at least 1 fruit or vegetable at the grocery store. If nothing else then I will just buy one of those little packs of blackberries or blueberries that they have right when you walk in and just eat that on the car ride home. Dark berries like black cherries and blueberries and blackberries are known to be one of the healthiest foods in the world, along with pistachios which are kind of expensive but extremely worth it if you value your health. They have more nutrients than any other nut and are the oldest cultivated nut by humans. They also were said to increase the bloodflow to the penis on one website where I was reading about the benefits of them and from then on my friend and I have only referred to them as dick nuts. If you buy all of the ingredients of all of your food yourself and cook all of your own meals it's very difficult (yet still possible) to get very overweight. And once you get good at it you will be making better tasting meals than you can get at any stores or restaurants around you for a reasonable price.
@@MrJaydog101 That polearm would be a pretty good exercise tool. I bet if you drilled for an hour performing various thrusts and cuts focussing on putting your body into it and proper form you'd get tired pretty fast.
Thiccagrim
@@El_Chompo tldr sorry
This is actually quite helpful! I was planning on making a polearm of sorts to cut tall, utterly vicious thornbushes. Essentially a machete on a stick. Maybe, once I figure out how, I'll make it prettier, and turn it into an actual, sturdy weapon, rather than a relatively crude forestry implement. I hadn't actually thought about the shape of the shaft, for example.
I don't know why I loved this video so much, I found it so interesting and genuine and btw I like the weapon too it looks so sick
Haft*
Arrows have shafts, polerams and axes have hafts.
I have a shaft as well ;)
@@Notmyname1593 A mine shaft?
@@Ch35h1r3C47 Indeed, that shaft is mine.
Did you really haft to?
Pretty cool that Skall has the room and the means to start crafting his own weapons.
Nice craftsmanship
I have the 25" Windlass Hewing Spearhead on a stick, it does much the same thing as Skallagrim's cutlass, and it is a reasonable low-cost polearm. Keep up the good work!
From my experience, most wood glues are comparable. The "fast set" wood glues usually are not real wood glues and don't bond as tightly. The most important part is getting an even pressure and flat contact while it is in the vices. You don't want it to be perfectly smooth -- if the contact points are perfectly smooth run a rough sandpaper over it to give it a bit of grip. Give it time to properly set and the pieces of wood will be practically one new piece.
A cap on the end would protect the wood from the ground and help to counterbalance the blade. A blunt strike can be useful.
Skall slowly descending into madness, nicee
A solution I found with the better polearms on the market with round shafts. It's basically the same thing you did here. Cut 4 small 60 degree reliefs. Obviously, these angled reliefs would run along the corner edges of the blade's armed position diameter. Each relief needs only be a half inch or so in width. Just enough to give a sharp edge for your hand to catch a secure grip on, but not so large as to significantly reduce the strength of the shaft's core. The relief cuts should run about two inches from the butt of the shaft to two inches to the base of the blade.
Great job, well constructed. I got a wulflund spearhead which is pretty kickarse, quite heavy. No Hickory in Australia so I used "Tasmanian Oak" which is a kind of eucalyptus (gum tree).
Damn colour me impressed I expected it to fail when you were chopping at that stump good job.
I can tell that it allows a firm grip on the shaft and an up-and-down-motion.
From one polearm aficionado to another, I applaud thee for bringing attention to them :)
I'm actually about to play as my oc. who's a winged tiefling barbarian. His weapon of choice is supposed to be a pike he made himself in the woods crudely. But he will eventually use a glave, or a halberd once he learns how amazing they are. :D I wish I could have him wield a weapon like this. Good work Skallgrim!
I made a Chinese pole arm (Pu Dao) which is similar in design except the blade is bigger and the guard is oval rather than "S" shaped. To wrap the butt where the tang is sandwiched between the wood I used brass sheet. It is more malleable than steel and easier to wrap around the pole. I use pipe clamps to hold it in place while riveting it. It reinforces the wood around the tang quite sufficiently.
Came out pretty good! Well done sir! Hey your skill level will grow as you make more
Stuff!
In demolition, chimneys tend to break at more or less the same point (in proportion to their height) every time. The forces that dominate breakage are predictable. If reinforcing a head meant for chopping on a pole, it is best to reinforce between a quarter and a third of the length of the pole, to avoid breaking the pole or losing the head otherwise, as an approximation.. On the other hand.. hickory is a fantastic material..
Though, from the looks of it, what you need is a combination bugzapper/polearm.
All hail the pointy stick! King of all weapons!
A well made light glaive (such as a nagianta) is surprisingly nimble, like longsword level nimbleness, is just a matter of working through the momentum instead of fighting against it.
that's got to be the best pokey stick i ever saw!
Good work. I like it, historical accuracy or not, it would make an excellent multi-purpose poking/smacking/slashing stick.
In fact, I might have to give this one a try!
I think it's awesome! Good job sir!
Nice polearm. I'm now inspired to attempt making one myself when I visit Alabama.
The two piece glued shaft actually would be stronger against impact than a single piece construction, assuming the glue held. In engineering terms, it's called asymmetrical failure fronts.
Skallagrim bro been watching you for a while now , i havnt seen a vid in a half year, and i cliked on one ya vids, your old laddy is feeding you to well my friend.
Looks very nice and pretty functional. I definitely recommend cutting down the butt to fit a lizard killer at least. If done right you can tune the balance to make it more precise
Look out, Skall is getting some technical skillzzzz
Nice bit of work. For a butt cap you can use an unthreaded metal pipe cap. Steel would be best but copper is probably easier to find and work. To fix it to the butt, predrill holes for the brads, or furniture tacks and use epoxy as well.For a butt spike simply drill a hole for a tight fitting nail. Push the nail through the hole from the inside of the cap and cut to length.
The cold steel pole arm kukri definitely impressed me
Very cool piece
I would have liked a full video of you making that polearm. Skall the Blacksmith vibes here.
Another video from Skallagrim, LET'S GOOOOOOO
Nice improv ☺ Most historical polearms were made by the peasantry from farming tools like that anyway
As for the single edged swordstaff technique you could use it like a Naginata, you need to bring your hands together when you move it and apart when you commit to a cut
Skall, you could make a follow up video in the future for a more completed version of it or you could try to make a second one with this experience to guide you.
Love this vid! More polearm vids!
Excellent, Skall! I did a spear out of hardware store stuff, it penetrates a car door like butter. My blade is short and have a stopper to prevent overpenetration. I only imagine what a burglar would think if he ever breaks in xD
I would recommend possibly incorporating a steel band attached to the guard to go down each side of the haft along with some thinner bands to wrap around and hot rivet everything through the haft to reinforce around the tang. Takes more technical skill but I would think would be quite capable of reducing the likelihood of splitting the haft near the tang