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Does anyone actually sell polearms like the awesome ones in the other thread?

I lack the time and have no where near the skill to to make them myself!

Baron Erik here has kick ass carved rattan weapons.
Baron Jamie (By My Hand) has some GREAT stuff, also.

Jmie doesn't stop by here much anymore, but is local and a friend to Erik either here https://www.facebook.com/pages/Munition ... 7058298448

or here on the Archive

Auðun Hroarsson (aidanhroarsson on the AA) occasionally takes commissions. He made my hewing spear and it is very nice.

I sell the carved rattan, you get to finish it off:

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$75 each

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$90 each

Stefan ap Llewelyn wrote:Does anyone actually sell polearms like the awesome ones in the other thread?

I lack the time and have no where near the skill to to make them myself!

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You know -- I never believe the time part. Not from anyone who posts.
What would you do to acquire the skill part?

Fundamentally, that stuff is nano-slightly harder than falling off a log. Where are you getting the idea the learning curve is so high and steep? You tape your own swords, yes? Getting the strapping tape around the thumpy bits is ninety percent of it. The rest is whittling. Damn few's the SCAdian who can't or shouldn't be trusted with a small knife. (Even though we can and do think of examples, there's a reason those stand out.)

Building a mace with a thrustie will teach you how to build a Dane axe, a pole axe, a halberd, a glaive, a hammer, a Lochaber axe or a Jeddart staff. It's all nylon-taping shapes to a rattan stave. I think that's where you start out.

I think Vitus might make one every so often for sale.

I know he has a tutorial on how he makes them out there....

I make 'em.

Konstantin the Red wrote:

Stefan ap Llewelyn wrote:Does anyone actually sell polearms like the awesome ones in the other thread?

I lack the time and have no where near the skill to to make them myself!

. . . .

You know -- I never believe the time part. Not from anyone who posts.
What would you do to acquire the skill part?

What would it take for me to acquire the skill? Probably a fair amount of time - which is in short supply. I run my own business, have two young children (one with special needs), have several hobbies and need to spend time on programming topics when I am not in work to keep on top of what is happening to make sure I can attract clients. What little time I have left over is split between spending time with my wife, re-enactment (where I am chief instructor of my group), Krav Maga and other bits such as house work etc.

I have no practical skills, I never have had, if I attempted to make one myself it would look terrible and I would be embarrassed to use it. I would much rather pay someone who knows what they are doing to make one for me and then use it with pride.

Thorgrimr wrote:I make 'em.

Thorgrimr makes good stuff!

Stefan ap Llewelyn wrote:What would it take for me to acquire the skill? Probably a fair amount of time - which is in short supply. I run my own business . . .

Yes. It's a concern. Very well. Watching someone else do it and imitating his steps, the fair amount of time is thirty to forty-five minutes for something plain like a Danish axe or a plain glaive type polearm. Maybe ten minutes more if you want a hook on the back. This is assuming a simple cut-out profile construction. That's what it would take me, and you're not so very short of talent yourself. What I snipped shows that.

I have no practical skills, I never have had, if I attempted to make one myself it would look terrible and I would be embarrassed to use it.

Aha, this is -- shyness. You'd rather not ever be seen as anything less (you think!) than perfection -- something close to the kind and standard of thing you can achieve when you are moving and striking and grappling. Well, that happens too. But need I remind you that isn't how you got where you are you are in Krav Maga? You got there a bit at a time. It's the very same thing creating material, practical things. Maybe as little as a mere eighty-five percent of it is wrapping the strapping tape around the thumpy bit(s), while the rest of it is still whittling. In foam and in leather, both of which are easy to cut. In rattan, which is easy to saw, to rasp, and not too awful to plane. I'm saying the skill is not so hard to attain. Particularly not when you've got a barony to ask around in.

Trust me, Stephan, you're fretting too hard, and down-talking yourself too damn much. If baby-steps are all you have, farkin' take 'em! It'll come. I mentioned building a mace because ultra pretty isn't so essential in a tourney mace; a lot of those look like oversize stick grenades. Nonetheless, they thump. I don't know what it's going to take to get you to see it my way. Near as I can see, the one thing you've lacked is somebody in your neighborhood to demonstrate the essentials -- on which the artsy stuff may be layered in due course.

And since time enough to post is time enough to read: Vitus' thread. He's telling all you'd need, structural and artful.

Hrolfr wrote:

Thorgrimr wrote:I make 'em.

Thorgrimr makes good stuff!

Thanks!

If you wish to make a split rattan polearm, try this tutorial

http://www.legiodraconis.com/modules.ph ... 336&page=1

I have made several like this over the past decade. If one gets the everything right, it looks very spear-like.

Thorgrimr wrote:

Hrolfr wrote:

Thorgrimr wrote:I make 'em.

Thorgrimr makes good stuff!

Thanks!

Just tellin' the truth, as a (multi) customer