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I have wanted one of these for a long time. Always fears about this stuff, too high prices for not rare things. I got this at a sensible price. It is not a long one 60cm long. The club haft and stone are covered in raw hide then a loop of softer leather round the stone and just onto the top of the haft. Remarkably the bead work is compete but there are small areas were the sinue thread is very thin and has become loose and rather delicate. It was said to have come from an old collection {aren't they all
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Hi, I was just thinking that the leather looks quite `bright`on the sides. Should it be a little more darker/patinated where the bead work ends if been an antique piece? I myself have made these clubs a couple and with a stone grinder it takes two hours to make the head, if not using natural stone. Willow for the handle and wet raw hide wrapped around the handle and the head, sewn together and when dried it will hold the head firmly on place. Smoked above fire and you have an autenthic looking skull crasher. I can send some pictures if anyone interested.
Regards, Timo ps. not saying this would be a recent one. |
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Is this dark engough? The club head is a brown colouerd limestone. This thread gives me a chance to show off my limestone carving. If you stood at a grinding wheel working the club stone with a good water supply then I suppose it would only take a few unpleasant hours. The bead work would slow you down just a little, all sewn with very fine sinew. If I had made it as a repro piece I would want a jolly lot more than I paid for it!!!!
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As I rather like to fiddle with pieces of stone I felt compelled to research the club stone. What I have found was a surprise. The seller may well have been telling the truth about the item coming from an old SW collection. The stone is known as Dense brown limestone in Arkansas and Louisiana or as shale in Texas and Arizona, which I thought was quite interssting. It dose not have the same shell inclusions as the white limestone I am familiar with but has the same hardness when tested.
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Hi, really nice bowl! Demands a lot of work, I know! I `ll send some pictures what I have made, a couple of skull crackers and some carved pipe heads.
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