Another stone disc club.

Tim Simmons · 25th May 2011, 07:07 PM

Fearn, the forked wood has been held open and heat treated in some way like burying in hot sand with a spacer in the fork. The fork them acts like a compression spring. More force than swinging the club around is needed to compresse the spring in the fork. Does that make sense?

Robert · 25th May 2011, 08:02 PM

I know little of nothing about club type weapons (and this point was well demonstrated in my last post on one)

but looking at the difference in the patina on the end of the shaft that protrudes through the stone compared to the the rest of the shaft to it looks to me like it could have had binding on it at some point. I would think that it might originally have had a spacer in the fork with binding holding it in place, BWDIK.

Robert

25th May 2011, 08:02 PM	#2
Robert (deceased) Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Centerville, Kansas Posts: 2,196	I know little of nothing about club type weapons (and this point was well demonstrated in my last post on one) but looking at the difference in the patina on the end of the shaft that protrudes through the stone compared to the the rest of the shaft to it looks to me like it could have had binding on it at some point. I would think that it might originally have had a spacer in the fork with binding holding it in place, BWDIK. Robert Last edited by Robert Coleman; 25th May 2011 at 08:41 PM.

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25th May 2011, 07:07 PM	#1
Tim Simmons Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: What is still UK Posts: 5,986	Fearn, the forked wood has been held open and heat treated in some way like burying in hot sand with a spacer in the fork. The fork them acts like a compression spring. More force than swinging the club around is needed to compresse the spring in the fork. Does that make sense?