Sparring partner: "If you hit me in face, how much kilograms would hit my face." Mirko Filipović: "Well it depends. Right leg is hospital, left is cemetery."
I mixed lead from my airgun pellet trap (essentially lead dust and bits of lead foil) with ultra slow-set epoxy. Made the mix, vac chambered it for half an hour to pull out the bigger bubbles and packed the cavity. Worked a treat and I knew that there was no way it'd split the head of my stick, which I did when I tried a hot pour.
Nice !! I am on my own weapon making journey myself and have made my own version of the Shillelagh as well as knob handle canes and paddle clubs and Native war clubs. Don"t you just fall in love with making them ? I know I have .
Unless one is going to be an executioner, IMO weighted handles are overkill and possibly counterproductive for most situations. I consider my 39 inch Blackthorn stick as primarily a striking weapon with the small end, perfect for a vicious stray dog. It would work for the 2-legged kind of problem too, should that ever arise, using thrusts to the torso mixed with two-hand whipping strikes to the head/neck and one-hand backhands to his knees.
Yep, enough lead to make it worth the work is enough to slow it too much for me - my blackthorn is whip-fast and will break bones as is. I do see the use though - not everyone fights that way. A nice loaded stick would still make me feel plenty safe, I'd just have to adapt. I made an oak stick for my wife with a handle made of copper pipe that's filled with sand (lead-loading is illegal here) and the 45° butt-cap has a silver British £1 coin soldered to it that will hurt a lot.
Not to mention it’s just dumb. If you used a modified shillelagh with lead in the head to defend yourself you’re 10000000% going to prison no matter what if you’re in the U.K. A normal shillelagh is a walking stick and there’s no way to prove you carry it for self defence, as long as you don’t get carried away when using it you’d be fine legally speaking. As soon as you modify it and add lead it becomes an offensive weapon and you’ll get time whether it was self defence or not. Make a brass head for it as a decorative piece or something else that’s legal that has the same effect, don’t do what the doofus in this video did unless you wanna go to prison.
The Shillelagh I carried when I was in Law enforcement was thicker and had a bigger knob head. It got the job done keeping criminals in check. It was made for me by an elderly Irishman who was once a policeman in Ireland 🇮🇪. I still have it.
@@SimonTimoney-74 I can't speak for anybody else but I'll tell you one thing I learned about the sheleighly from an Irishman who was a cop in Ireland 🇮🇪 and made it for me.
@@SimonTimoney-74 you have a lot of Irish Americans here in States. And those Traditions have traveled with their families when they settled in the United States. So contrary to what you may believe my man there is a lot of Irish-Americans here who have know and understand what a shillelagh is
