Large Frankish Spear (Royal Ontario Museum)

Anglo-Saxon spearhead

Completed Spears

Here's what the completed modification of my re-enactment spears look like after I cleaned up the blades and shaped them a bit with a file. The shafts are mere mop handles and the rivets are cut down nails that are peened over. They are crude but effective, and beautiful in their own way.  They're not as pretty as they were originally, but now they have character. Video forthcoming, so keep an eye on my Youtube channel.

See the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP-oM57eX8U

This is how the spear heads originally looked. The top one is the Windlass Hewing Spear.

A Productive Day at the Forge

Modifications in progress on this Cold Steel Norse Hawk.

Modifying some stage combat spears to be a little more pointy.

Quenched these two blades. The top one I forged from a pruning shear blade and the bottom one was  forged from a piece of a coil spring. Both were successfully hardened and can now move on too the tempering process.

Windlass Hewing Spear

In preparation for shooting the sequel to my short film "Viking Proverb", I made a spear with the Windlass Hewing Spear head.  I mounted it to a short flag pole, the type you'd hang off your porch.  This made the spear very short, but also very maneuverable. I used a nail to secure the head to shaft and simply cut the point off and peened it over. Because of the way the hole in the spearhead was cut, the peen actually ended up flush with the rest of the socket.  Look for this badass weapon in the short film "Viking Toothache".

The nail end peened over to lock the head onto the shaft.

A look at the original nail head.