Looks like a baseball bat with the large tip cut off flat at one end, and the handle base plus a half foot or so removed at the grip end. Then a smithed attachment was made to circle the tip with 4 evenly spaced concentric (read a thick bracelet with spikes at 12, 3, 6, & 9 o'clock)silver colored flared spikes (maybe 2 or 3 inches long)on it. Flat silver metal strips (about the same width as the ones holding the spike arrays) connect this band to a second one about 6 inches or so back from the first toward the handle. It's hard to tell whether some flattening was done to the wood to accomodate the attachement, and provide a better grip at each end, or if it's just a limitation of the game graphics - either way it appears slight. This attachemnt to the bat seems rather ingeneous in that it both straps 8 spikes to the bat, secures them in relation to 3 axis, and simultaneously very securely bolsters the wood of the bat at the business end from splintering, taking chunks or other severe damage. Doing all this with a minumum amount of weighty metal used, and making component replacement parts simple and standard applications - so even an apprentice smith or soldier in the field might be able to succesfully repair it.