All About Pocket Knives

Clubs, fighting sticks and Tomahawks, I have always liked them. Here are a few that I put together.

Neat collection, we were just discussing throwing sticks at our last scout meeting, how the native tribes and aboriginal peoples hunted rabbit and small game with them.

C-WADE7 wrote: ↑Sat May 24, 2025 2:31 am Neat collection, we were just discussing throwing sticks at our last scout meeting, how the native tribes and aboriginal peoples hunted rabbit and small game with them.

Thanks C-W7, As I recall the abiogenies that migrated from New Guinea to Australia actually lost the knowledge of using a bow and arrow and resorted to using the throwing stick. I believe the subject is covered at length in "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" a book by Jared Diamond

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Sat May 24, 2025 6:01 am I recall the abiogenies that migrated from New Guinea to Australia actually lost the knowledge of using a bow and arrow and resorted to using the throwing stick.

It’s seems hard to imagine that being lost, but if during travel the elders or hunters died it would be gone, think of all the knowledge that’s been lost since time begun. I try to buy books on old technology and basic survival because if the internet ever goes away there will be so much information lost. I’ve seen some videos of those throwing sticks in action and in skilled hands they are very effective and deadly.

C-WADE7 wrote: ↑Sat May 24, 2025 4:55 pm

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Sat May 24, 2025 6:01 am I recall the abiogenies that migrated from New Guinea to Australia actually lost the knowledge of using a bow and arrow and resorted to using the throwing stick.

It’s seems hard to imagine that being lost, but if during travel the elders or hunters died it would be gone, think of all the knowledge that’s been lost since time begun. I try to buy books on old technology and basic survival because if the internet ever goes away there will be so much information lost. I’ve seen some videos of those throwing sticks in action and in skilled hands they are very effective and deadly.

I agree with you , ... and a great example is the Roman technology that slipped away (think about their invention and use of "concrete") in Western Europe after 476 AD. I have also read that introducing Indians to firearms in North America led to a decrease in their proficiency over time with the bow and arrow. There are some amazing accounts of fights with the Texas Rangers and the Comanche and their deadly ability to shoot fast and accurate with a bow.

Something I roughed out for stray dogs on my walks.

My walking stick has a brass horse hame for a knocker

eveled wrote: ↑Sun May 25, 2025 12:25 am IMG_4527.jpeg

My walking stick has a brass horse hame for a knocker

Fancy!

doglegg wrote: ↑Sat May 24, 2025 10:04 pm Something I roughed out for stray dogs on my walks.

I think that would do the trick!!

C-WADE7 wrote: ↑Sun May 25, 2025 3:08 am

doglegg wrote: ↑Sat May 24, 2025 10:04 pm Something I roughed out for stray dogs on my walks.

I think that would do the trick!!

Thanks C.

doglegg wrote: ↑Sat May 24, 2025 10:04 pm Something I roughed out for stray dogs on my walks.20250524_165731.jpg20250524_165723.jpg

I like it D.L. ... Is it made from Mesquite?

This is a "shorty" club made out of Mesquite.

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Tue May 27, 2025 1:21 am

doglegg wrote: ↑Sat May 24, 2025 10:04 pm Something I roughed out for stray dogs on my walks.20250524_165731.jpg20250524_165723.jpg

I like it D.L. ... Is it made from Mesquite?

This is a "shorty" club made out of Mesquite.

I don't know what kind of wood it is GSP.... but that is a cool one.

Here are a couple of "tomahawks" I have accumulated over the years.... The one with the spike I got from the maker at his forge in Hungary when I was backpacking around Europe.

...A few more cluttering up the house.....

walking sticks/canes....

walking stick/cane.. from Dominican Republic made from mahogany...

Mesquite club and oak walking stick.... all could be used in a self-defense situation.....

Here is a fighting stick.... ... with a with a chain and spiked ball attached to it .... (also commonly known as a Morning Star Flail, a wooden shaft joined by a chain to one or more iron-shod bar, and also known as a Medieval Flail).

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Wed Nov 12, 2025 2:13 am Mesquite club and oak walking stick.... all could be used in a self-defense situation.....

Cool club.

doglegg wrote: ↑Wed Nov 12, 2025 2:57 am

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Wed Nov 12, 2025 2:13 am Mesquite club and oak walking stick.... all could be used in a self-defense situation.....

Cool club.

Thanks D.L. Nothing like a good piece of Mesquite ... you might not be too familiar with the Mesquite tree in your neck of the prairie it is known as a hardwood and an extremely hardy, drought-tolerant plant....

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Wed Nov 12, 2025 3:36 am

doglegg wrote: ↑Wed Nov 12, 2025 2:57 am

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Wed Nov 12, 2025 2:13 am Mesquite club and oak walking stick.... all could be used in a self-defense situation.....

Cool club.

Thanks D.L. Nothing like a good piece of Mesquite ... you might not be too familiar with the Mesquite tree in your neck of the prairie it is known as a hardwood and an extremely hardy, drought-tolerant plant....

Oh, we know about mesquite around here. Considered a weed by farmers and ranchers. They have a constant battle trying to keep it from taking over. But it is good in a smoker. In bad times some folk even made flour out of the beans. It is pretty wood.

doglegg wrote: ↑Wed Nov 12, 2025 2:31 pm

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Wed Nov 12, 2025 3:36 am

doglegg wrote: ↑Wed Nov 12, 2025 2:57 am

Cool club.

Thanks D.L. Nothing like a good piece of Mesquite ... you might not be too familiar with the Mesquite tree in your neck of the prairie it is known as a hardwood and an extremely hardy, drought-tolerant plant....

Oh, we know about mesquite around here. Considered a weed by farmers and ranchers. They have a constant battle trying to keep it from taking over. But it is good in a smoker. In bad times some folk even made flour out of the beans. It is pretty wood.

Mesquite in Texas!!!??? ... ... who would have thunk it???!!!

Here is a "poor man's tomahawk"....

An interesting stone War Club.....

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Wed Mar 04, 2026 10:23 pm An interesting stone War Club.....

Very interesting.