Sarissa \'Coupling Sleeve\'

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And is it worth to a king to place a "second quality" or "repaired" sarissa together with the many kilos of gold inside the tomb? The Macedonian sarissa hasn't been longer than other pikes throughout history and they needn't be joined. Macedonian had the resources on wood to build all the fleets of Athens, it was(and still is) a fairly wooded land and if we add the forests in North Macedonia and all the regions that Macedonia ruled under Philip and Alexander,it doesn't seem really that much of a problem to equip some thousand phalangites.
Modern tries to join shafts with much more elaborate joints don't seem convincing...
So i'm still very sceptical about the "sleeve" being a joint.
Khaire
Giannis

Hi Giannis,
I think you are missing my point. Im not saying that only the repaired sarissa's had the joint, but all. This made repairs on campaigns easier.
You can't make a strong pike from any tree, the wood that is fit for construction may not be fit for weapons. You cannot have a knot in a pike shaft for example.
England and Switzerland are both very heavily wooded (or were) and we still needed to specially grow trees to make our pikes.

I am not sure about the joint either, but I found this argument convincing.