Hardest Metal?

Garolite/G10 rod is really dense sort of heavy and damn near indestructable. Also so cheap on Ebay 3cm round some Paracord for grip about 40cm long will do as much or little damage as you care to do.
For me it would be the same sized Ti bar or my 1911 45acp Legal to carry concealed here in good ol Arizona!!!!! W/O a permit BTW
 
It's not metal, but what about a rattan pole? I propped a show once that was mostly just a bunch of guys whacking on stuff with sticks, lots of manly drumming. The Director had done the show before and told me to track down rattan poles about 1" in diameter. The rattan took an amazing amount of abuse, a hard hit on the edge of a steel drum lid would leave a dent but none of the poles broke in performance over an 8 week run. Of course I took a couple poles after the show to the shop to see just how much abuse they could take, and if I clamped one end of a pole in a vise and bent it into a "U" shape, I could get the outer fibers to splinter and eventually the pole would break. Took a lot of effort though...

It would not be too hard to drill a hole in the end of a rattan pole and epoxy in some birdshot or a tungsten rod if you need some extra mass
 
Well, tungsten carbide is pretty hard. They use tungsten carbide in drill bits in the North Sea. Hard to work, though. A traditional blackthorn cudgel with a few ounces of lead inside would probably suit your needs.
 
In Ireland they have this ancient self defense tool called the Shillelagh. I bet you could find of make one easily :)
 
Make a garrote in Ti or steel. http://www.ramanon.com/forum/showthread.php?78443-Another-Flat-Stick-Garrote
The problem with a rod is the mass/surface area ratio when impacting means the force of the blow is spread across a larger area. This means that to break bone, you have to have a larger (slower) mass or move the rod faster (also difficult with a larger mass). The garrote has an oval cross section so you get a larger mass spread over a smaller cross sectional area (when you hit with the "edge").
Any hardwood stick suitable for stick fighting would benefit from being "ovalled" in that you get a more penetrating impact on the edge and you've lightened the stick a little, making it faster in the hand.
 
What tooling do you have available? The various types of Austentitic steels have the advantage that you can work them annealed with simple tools and then harden them. Things like Stellite that do not have an annealed state need some more aggressive tools to work with.

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Having considered all the advice here I do believe that the blackthorn shillelagh with lead inside is my best bet. Its legal to carry because its just a walking stick, and saves me the effort of making something from scratch... Its a hard enough wood for self defense plus the lead injection gives it some extra weight and whack :P Thinking about my idea to make a weapon myself, had I actually made it (in the disguise of a walking stick, since thats about the only legal weapon-type thing we can carry) and had to use it, I may have been in some legal trouble. The shillelagh walking stick is about my best bet I think! Thanks everyone :)
 
rodogg said:
plus the lead injection gives it some extra weight and whack :P
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Also making it slower. I'd be carefull to not overdo the lead.

A broad sword might do more damage, a rapier is faster. I'd prefer the ladder
 
rodogg said:
Having considered all the advice here I do believe that the blackthorn shillelagh with lead inside is my best bet. Its legal to carry because its just a walking stick, and saves me the effort of making something from scratch... Its a hard enough wood for self defense plus the lead injection gives it some extra weight and whack :P Thinking about my idea to make a weapon myself, had I actually made it (in the disguise of a walking stick, since thats about the only legal weapon-type thing we can carry) and had to use it, I may have been in some legal trouble. The shillelagh walking stick is about my best bet I think! Thanks everyone :)
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Make your walking stick with a well attached ornamental handle (maybe a carved steel Celtic knotwork piece or dragon made out of O-1 or other tool steel hardened to RC55 and polished, with high enough relief in the carvings to have the force concentration effect of a flanged mace)

just a thought, I have been making weapons for civilized carry for many years

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sunshadow said:
Make your walking stick with a well attached ornamental handle (maybe a carved steel Celtic knotwork piece or dragon made out of O-1 or other tool steel hardened to RC55 and polished, with high enough relief in the carvings to have the force concentration effect of a flanged mace)

just a thought, I have been making weapons for civilized carry for many years

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Thanks for the ideas but I don't have the skills to do that :P Had I made it myself it would have been a lot more basic. Have contacted someone about getting a Shillelagh. Making one myself is out of the question they take YEARS to dry. Crazy.
 
The best tactical weapon is anything you can reach fast when you need it. I doubt that you will be able to reach for something under a surprise attack.
Train your reflexes first and than good luck!
 
Hengelo_77 said:
Also making it slower. I'd be carefull to not overdo the lead.

A broad sword might do more damage, a rapier is faster. I'd prefer the ladder
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indeed, you need some weight, but speed is more important than weight
double the speed means 4 times more energy

now to get lots of weight moving real fast , you have to be big and strong and fast ,
 
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impreza- carbon fiber is hard as s*** but it is brittle and is likely to break if struck against a skull or something

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if you need a self defense weapon get a 1.5-2 inch steel ball bearing (very heavy) and put it in a monkeys fist knot with a lanyard probably with a clip so you have enough cord on the lanyard to unclip it swing it and have a 2-8 foot spinning diameter. even if the ball dosent strike the person the tightly strung cord will wrap around their neck and continue to tighten as they squirm to get free
 
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