[Dan Kary]

Hi everybody,

Fairly recently I cleared the decks on pretty much all of my collection. I did this because of space. I was to try to get rid of everything and buy just a couple of really nice pieces instead - quality over quantity.

Unfortunately, the money I made selling everything ended up going to bills after a period where work was hard for me to find. I'm now in a position where I can finally get the pieces I want.

One thing I failed to get rid of was a Cold Steel Swiss Halberd. The reason, I believe, is the size. I'm determined to get rid of it, being the last bit of the old collection and taking up more than its fair share of space, and I want to do it sooner rather than later because I am ready to pull the trigger on the new stuff.

I basically just want it out of my house. I don't think I will have success selling it. The shipping alone would probably be more than anybody would want to pay - even if I was giving it away...and I would absolutely be willing to do this if somebody wanted it - just pay shipping. Another alternative is that I could try to unload it locally on kijiji or something. But I don't know if I feel good about selling or even giving away a weapon to somebody in a parking lot or whatever.

Another thing I thought about was just selling the head and letting somebody get their own pole and that would reduce the shipping cost quite a bit. The problem here is that the pole is so tightly in the head I can't get it out...

The blade also has a ding in it. So that's probably not going to help the sell-ability of it.

Any advice? Thanks!

[Edward Lee]

If you want to get rid of it, cut the pole down to the halberd head size and wrap it up with clothe and tape, then bring it to the nearest metal scrap yard. But don't expect any payment because it will probably be in pennies.

If you want to keep the head and sell it somewhere else, first of all how did you attach the head? If it's a nail then you can drill through it with a cobalt drill bits.

[Jean Thibodeau]

[Aaron Hoard]

That halberd sells for $146 new on Amazon; you can get a similar head (w/o pole) from Museum Replicas for $60; yours has some damage. So - what do you realistically think you could get for it once you cut the pole off, and is that worth the time/effort to get that much? $40? $30?

I'd be inclined to donate it - to a Ren Faire participant, or a school drama department, or maybe just put it into the metal recycling.

But - I hate the logistics of selling stuff, so maybe that's just me.

ETA: maybe advertise it to a local SCA group, or D&D group - someone local who might be interested and can come get it (even if that means sticking it out their sunroof).

[Dan Kary]

Thanks for all the replies!

I hope I'll address everybody here...

It is attached with friction and screws. I've taken out the screws but the friction is just impossibly tight...I kind of made sure of that when assembling - I really hammered the handle into the socket (so it is totally my fault!). Stupid. I know. It was like 13 years ago...I was younger and dumber than I am now (I hope so anyways).

I'm not really looking to sell it because I know it isn't really worth anything. I don't want to simply cut off the handle at the base of the head and toss it in the bin just because I think it might be dangerous (it is still a functional weapon - sharp and all!) - as mush as I would just like to out of sight and out of mind this thing, I just don't want even the possibility of this hurting somebody. That being said, I also don't want to spend the time grinding doing the edges and points just to throw it out.

I think I like the idea of donating to a renaissance fare participant rather than to some random on Kijiji. If I can't do that, maybe I will contact the scrap yard ahead of time and ask them about cutting off the handle and dropping it off...