i have to take up this hobby of making and learning to use archaic weapons

the aboriginals had some neat ways of making really nasty hard sticks... in modern colloquial speech they call it a "you'll be" as in "you'll be fucked if this hits you" these things are made out of wood but they are as strong as a steel bar twice the weight

some fun stuff to do with fire and resins natural polymers making the wood as rigid as steel