The LARP season is over for the year (for the club I attend anyway – there may be some hardy souls out there braving the cold!) which gives me lots of time to start a few projects. The first thing I’m doing is making a spear. Although the character I play is not really a front line fighter there have been more than a few occasions when I’ve been in a shield wall where a spear would be very useful. I have made one but it is too short and although I was pleased with it, it is not of a great piece of work.
The spear I’m planning is based on a spear head found at Le Tene and has a particularly wavy blade. I use the excellent Osprey Publishing “Celtic Warrior” as my first reference in many cases for ideas and inspiration. The particular spear can be see on this Google Book search page.
Dumnonni Chronicles unlike more than a few systems allows “stabbing” spears. So safety with spears is probably more important than with swords. The tip has to be “stab safe” and so is made of softer foam than a sword would be.
Spear components
The picture to the left shows the main components of the spear. Top to bottom – soft foam for the majority of the spear head, thick fibre glass core – to thin and the spear would be too “wippy” and denser foam for the lower third of the spear head.
