That comment you made towards the end, the "instinct", that is what I've heard from my Elders be called the "Voice of the wood." The pipemakers feel it too, the stoneshapers that make our sacred Opwaagan. Its what I felt as I made my courting flute, and what my father said he felt as he stitched together his Regalia. It is an amazing feeling.

1:38 Video paused. Wall. Nut. Crotch. Wood. One of these things is not like the other.... OK, out of my system now. Proceeding to the rest of the video.

I would say the original form for the club was the Mississippian monolithic axe. The iron blade replaces the stone. The form changes slightly to mimic the gunstock. An anthropological example of "hunting magic". The power of the long rifles is transferred to the club. Native americans also carved wood replicas of sheath knives. They painted them red and wore them as part of a headdress.

Too bad I didn't see this sooner. The war club by itself is beautiful but you are correct; the hand forged blade adds that extra level of craftsmanship to the whole project. I hope your auction was as successful as you both hoped it would be... :)

this is my favorite Native American war club build. You really did an amazing job. Thanks for sharing.

That's the nicest gunstock war club I've seen. It's beautiful, you did a great job imo!

You are the first American I have ever heard call a spoke shave a spoke shave instead of a drawknife !!! And what a beautiful job you really are a craftsman artist 👍👍👍

I bet Rex is a hoot to sit down and drink a few beers with.

Besides a bad azz weapon, your gesture to sell and donate to a terrific charity is way more bad azz.

I've seen Green Beetle make exceptional blades from a wide variety of components. So given his level of talent, I knew you had to have superior skills as well, Rex. I must say that I was rather impressed with your choice of wood, your expert shaping and laminate binding as well as the flawless inlays and perfect finish. Bravo!!! This piece could easily sell for several thousand dollars and still be a bargain. I only wish I could afford something this beautiful.

Beautiful, This belongs on a wall in a fine museum. outstanding collaboration.

This is narrated like an episode of Hardcore History

These are clubs often used by eastern woodland tribes and I believe part of the plains... Cherokee used Knife and Tomahawk but they also had gunstock clubs

That’s really awesome. I can see I’m a year behind on this video, but doing this piece for charity and my favorite charity too! You’re awesome, thanks for everything.

Seriously, of all the walnut crotch I've seen/used and things I've seen Matt Cremona do with his MASSIVE WALNUT CROTCH...I've never had such a tingle in my Ironwood for a project until this.

Loved the project, and a beautiful final piece! I have made a few gunstock war clubs in the past as they were also used in Star Wars as a tusken raider weapon. I use the Holey Galahad carbide disk on my angle grinder for material removal.

As a kid I would make toy weapons from wood. This takes me back and adds a whole new level. Great series and keep up the great work!

Awesome that you are donating it to a children's hospital! I hope it raises lots of cash, lot of work in this team piece!

Here in new zealnd the Maori had this same weapon but they bought muskets off the British but the British planning on the standard violent colonization didn't sell them enough bullets or gunpowder so when the Maori ran out of bullets they just ditched the heavy barrels and used the stocks as clubs which was their weapon of choice precolonization anyway

looks great! & the blade is the perfect finishing touch.

As a native, this is my favorite weapon

I watched Green Beetle do his part and Ive been waiting to see this pop up in my feed and glad to finally see it great job it looks amazing!!

In Ireland we call them hurleys, and we play sport and hit each other with them every week on TV.

Your passion for this work is underscored and highlighted by your recognition of Green Beatles contribution. Beautiful work!

I had Steve (greenbeetle) make my dad an ambidextrous japanese carpentry marking knife from twist damascus. His work is outstanding and he's such a nice guy. My dad absolutely ADORES that marking knife and uses it CONSTANTLY despite being a pretty exclusively powertool woodworker.

Wow, amazing result! and great idea for the auction.. well done !

The native American tribes used steel blades bone blades and stone blades sweet weopon man kind of reminds me of the last of the Mohicans and dances with wolves great video I love making these weopans to

I just got done watching Steve make this piece for your club , amazin truly amazing! 👊😎🤙

The finish on that wood is gorgeous

Excellent craftsmanship.

That’s absolutely beautiful! Great job on all levels!

Absolutely beautiful! Thanks for this tutorial, it was great.

That is a beautiful piece. Kudos to both of you

great project, dont know how i have not seen this before. Have been following you both a long time

For your next project, just make your own blade. If the Native American hadn't traded a blacksmith for a blade, they probably just took a an old knife or piece of steel using stones to laboriously grind the blade to their liking. You can do it faster with steel files and your 60 grit sand paper. Nice job on your piece!

Holy shit, I got to see you going live. This is awesome!

Thanks for the crotch wood.

That turned out great.

You have great energy vibes. Love watching your videos. Keep up the great job.

I'm new to the channel and missed the auction, how much did it go for ! Love your channel and it inspired me to make my own workbench like in your tutorial. I have a small basement and it's a perfect size. Thanks for the videos!!!

Holy shot dude. Nice. Both your woodworking and the knife piece are exceptional

Man, that gunstock is a thing of beauty❤️

Damn Rex you blew us away! I love the way you articulated the story! Job really well done always enjoy your videos! Love to see someone so passionate! I’m one of your viewers!! 👍👍👍😎🇨🇱

Came over from Steve's channel. Wow that is beautiful and great job making it!!!! Enjoyed your video and gave it a Thumbs Up

Loved both videos.

Nice collab! The waves in the walnut really match up nice with Damascus.

dude the finish on that piece is amazing! fantastic job!

Your respect, humor, and skill got a sub from me!

I made a arming sword out of poplar once. I used a 45 degree router to make it look like an actual blade too. And it is pretty cool

Awesome project rex! For projects like those I sugest you look into shinto rasps, not that expensive and total game changers for shaping out wood, and the best part is that they also are great for hardened steel, it makes restoring blades a breeze

Hey man saw the blad and rifle stock collaboration video with Green beatle and popped over to your channel, amazing work you're doing you've got me hooked, keep up the good work man!

This weapon appears in Last of the Mohicans.

Passion. No … PASSION!!!!!!!!!! Thanks, Rex!

I used a modified cement trowel for the blade!

So cool...the project was cool, your woodworking was cool, Green Beetles blade is cool, the video is cool - and the coolest is the auction for charity. Getting brisk all around!

“Clamp the living snot”? You are DEFINITELY a Buckeye.😜 Me too. Love your stuff.

beautiful war club

Amazing, Awesome, and Excellent video and process and thanks for sharing. You are a Great inspiration...

Your final product is gorgeous buddy. I collect weapons as art pieces, and I’d be thrilled to own this piece

DOPE ASF, YOU NAILED IT REX!

Gorgeous piece Rex. That blade is like the cherry on top of a sundae, however they both complement the other very well.

I love how this projected ended up being a collaborative effort! Though I gotta disagree about a wood spike/blade being flimsy. A blade of lignum vitae would have been quite the piece! Still a great result!

That is amazing great work!

They make carving disc attachments for angle grinders. Nice zombie killer BTW.

Looks great mate!

Very nice job.

Awesome frigging video! Amazing, superb, outstanding, incredible, visionary piece of art that the two of you created. And the fact that you are donating the money to St. Judas Children's Hospital is wonderful and I think that this is beautiful act of altruism. I'm off to watch Steve's video now. Well done Rex!

Awesome build, collaboration, and decision to auction it with the proceeds going to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.

That is totally AWESOME!!!!!!

Rex Your a Legend

Next Level!

Never realized this was a small Chanel until this moment rex... I've been sending your videos to my friend tho hopefully you spread like wildfire I want to see you collab with Ron Swanson by the end of this decade

How did I miss this series!?!

Wow. That looks good and I will see if I can make this too 🙂

Beautiful work, you make me believe I could make one.

If you enjoyed this, you really really need to make a flintlock rifle. Not from a kit. You can buy all the metal work unfinished. The stock patterns are available. That curly walnut is perfect. Check out Herschel House and Wallace Gussler for some helpful “hints”.

Still absolutely bonkers, mad.

Way to trust your instincts on this one. This turned out to be amazing piece.

You are without doubt one of my favourite KZfaq channels, but this videos raises it to even new heights. Funny...crotch, wood..., historically educational, instructional and shows the humanity that can be present on KZfaq. Excellent Rex! By the way, have you tried one of the rasp attachments for angle grinders?

Looks like you two will make some good coin for St. Judes, AWESOME.

Walnut Crotchwood was my street name.

briliant

Hey Rex! I do believe that what you have made here is a real weapon. I am some what familiar with it although what I have seen, some where, had a large blade and was used like an axe and could be thrown like an axe. They look very vicious! Maybe they had shoulder straps. Anyway I like your work and thank you for sharing. I would call this piece, an all around success. Bob

HIS SHINY HEAD GAVE MY CROTCH WOOD

the same club is found throughout the pacific, i think its highly likely this design predates the colonisation.

Awesome !

Amazing

It seems I'm late to the party, and the ebay link is dead, so what did the piece make in the auction?

WOW! Beautiful! 😮

Great video

i appreciate anyone who honors my heritage. 💜

Cool build but awesome ending lol

Too Cool, Marlow Thomas's Father is smiling down on you guy's right now. Yeah he said crotch and wood in the same sentence. Dope, couldn't resist. Nice work Rex and Green Beetle.

Green Beetle sent me here. Love the collab. Very well done.

Last Of The Mohicans (w/Daniel Day-Lewis). Chingachgook wields his to good effect. Don't miss it.

Woah, now that’s solid art! Generally I’m not the biggest fan of Damascus. I will say this is one of the only cases I’ve ever seen a pattern welded blade used where it truly belongs and I like it a lot. It was a fantastic artistic addition to this. My big issue with Damascus is largely because it’s sold to the public generally as a premium or high end blade steel.. and it just isn’t. It’s art. Another large part of that is because the term these days is misused. We don’t really truly understand what real wootz Damascus was but we know the ore was from a very specific region, had a very small and specific vanadium content (I think something like .09%) and was a crucible steel worked quite cold in comparison to other blade materials. So basically what is sold as Damascus really isn’t because no one on earth even knows how to make a true Damascus steel. Modern pattern welded Damascus can be a great art piece when used tastefully like you did here. I just always get frustrated with bladesmiths that don’t market their product that way and really swindle people into believing their steel can exceed the qualities of a modern steel. Modern particle metallurgy steels are quite amazing and have come a LONG way from the days of the old blacksmith forge. Like comparing a horse and buggy to a f-16 fighter jet lol. Some people may like the horse and buggy because of that connection to antiquity, but no denying the fighter jet is much faster lol. Ok I have to stop myself. I’m a metal nerd and can rant all day haha. Anyway, this thing was amazing and well beyond my woodworking capability at this time.. but maybe someday I’ll give it a try if I can find some massive ol crotch wood haha.

I always assumed they just used gunstocks they got a hold of and turned them into clubs. Decent bit of wood after all...

Suggestion: Spokeshave as the next tool for Woodwork for Humans series, to make a shoe horn. Took me for my first time 4 hours total, before sanding with random orbital sander.

Earned a sub!

Awsome!