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[Chuck Robinson]

1050 steel, after you set the cross bar  and haft the spear head, drill 
thru the middle of the tang, cross bar and shaft and rivit in place with 
a cold formed rivet.
Chuck

On 4/19/2011 9:53 PM, Kim George wrote:
> I was thinking of a functional weapon with the cross bar over the tang
> like the ax in a halberd . What material to use? It needs to be a
> medium or high carbon simple or alloy steel so that it can be heat
> treated.
>
> On 4/19/11, peter fels<artgawk at thegrid.net>  wrote:
>> Use the cross bar as a drift...waist mid bar..goes in the freezer while
>> spear head heats?
>>
>> On Apr 19, 2011, at 8:13 AM, Kim George wrote:
>>
>>> I've been thinking of making a boar  spear with a shrink fit cross
>>> bar. Any suggestions?
>>>
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