Cold Steel Assegai with Short Shaft

The spear is one of humankind’s oldest and most reliable tools. Early examples were no more than sticks or poles with fire-hardened points. As people learned how to knap flint, cast bronze and forge metals, they quickly adapted these technologies to the spear. The spear allowed one to maintain distance from an opponent using a shorter implement such as a mace, axe, sword or even a bayonet. When thrown, the spear enabled users to bring down the largest predator while staying safely out of reach of fangs or claws. With cold forging technology pioneered by Cold Steel, we can offer high performance spears at reasonable prices. All come with premium American Ash shafts and SK-5 medium carbon steel heads. Like traditional spearheads, ours are heat treated and then drawn to a tough spring temper. The concept is that the spear head should flex or bend under impact stresses rather than break or shatter.