constructing a wooden halbred?

[JeffGentry]

This may seem like a silly question but has anyone tried to construct an all wooden halbred. Maybe with a wood and padded head to use in full contact practice say maybe with long-sword's or other pole weapon's or is this not realy worth while, i was looking at the historical art work section and seen some in there just kind of wondered. I get all sort's of strange idea's and just wondered if this has been tried or is not viable.

thank's in advance for your feed back.

[Brian Hunt]

I have constructed a wooden pole axe. It works very nice, but must be used with control, it has a lot of leverage. I am planning on doing a halberd in the near future.

Brian Hunt
GFS

[Randall Pleasant]

Brian

Please post some pictures of your wooden pole ax. I might want to rip-off your design. <img src="/forum/images/icons/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/icons/laugh.gif" alt="" />

[David Kite]

From the homepage, go under Practice and there is a link to explain the construction of ARMA's padded weapons, including pole-weapons. Also, Wooden Weapons offers a pole-waster, but off hand I can't remember what kind.

David Kite
ARMA in IN

[JeffGentry]

never noticed that must have zipped right past it David ty. Randall was thinking about a hammer type head with a four round point's on top and one on the reverse side.think out of a piece of 4x4 wood could probably do the whole thing with a jig saw.

[Jamie Fellrath]

Wooden Weapons offers two types of halberds, the second of which looks more like a battleaxe on a stick than a historical halberd (at least, compared to any halberds I've seen). They also offer a leather-bladed halberd and a leather-bladed hand axe. Seems that the leather ones wouldn't be so great for actual practice due to the weight differences, but might be good for light sparring.