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Most Australian wood is also ultra-hard, you can't have a bendy bow from there. People used to build streets from blocks of Jarrah wood [1]. A much more popular Australian weapon was the combination of spear thrower and spear; that'll take your head off clean.

https://fremantlestuff.info/streets/blocks.html#:~:text=Aust....



I have a Jarrah cane! I'm completely confident it would stop a steel sword. Probably mess up the edge in the process. It's heavy too.


Including one of the hardest of them all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allocasuarina_luehmannii




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