How to make a Wooden War Club

If you want to know, how to make a war club, then this video is for you. In this case I will show you how to make a wooden war club. I got inspired by the native american tribes how they made the ball headed war clubs, because the shape of the war clubs was quite unusual and this is also the reason, why I decided to make an indian war club by myself. As you can see, I am not a native american and I do not claim to build exactly their weapons, it's just inspired by them and I really think, that it's important to quote the source to give credit to the inventors of these wooden self defense tools.

As I said, I asked myself, how did the native american made their war clubs? If I wanted to understand the whole process of building a wooden war club, I had to build one by myself. This is learning by doing and my way ro learn and building weapons without metals is a very special journey.

0:01 How to make a ball headed war club
0:05 How effective is a native american war club
0:10 How to pick the right shape and the right kind of wood for the war club
1:02 The tight piece of wood is found
1:10 Removing small branches with the axe
1:13 Removing the bark with the axe
1:44 Testing the very raw shape
1:52 Possible designs of the indian war club
2:07 Coffeee addiction in the woods
2:20 Shaping the native american war club with the axe, removing bigger pieces of wood
3:08 Checking the shape of the war club again and again
3:40 Artist Hundertwasser: Straight lines are not healthy
3:52 Shaping the handle
4:14 Shaping the ball head
5:08 Cutting the deer hoof handle
5:29 Working with the rasp
5:47 Finetuning the ball head with a knife
6:36 Sand paper
6:43 Small mistakes
7:18 Oiling the wood
7:51 The war club is finished
8:04 The native american inspired war club
8:26 Testing the war club - smashing a pumpkin
8:28 Pumpkin soup
8:33 How to make a throwing stick
8:45 Bloopers


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