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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 5963697" data-attributes="member: 6669384">You can make a quarterstaff out of boxwood (soft, fragile stuff) and have it shod with anything you like, it will never be masterworked.  It's too weak at the core.To make a quarterstaff with different woods at each end would be difficult to imagine, and an incredible amount of work to create.  No continuous grain through the center section?  That's not a quarterstaff, it's two clubs and a blob of play-dough to hold them together.  (Consider the very small surface as the two ends meet, and the leverage the two lengths of wood apply to that strain point.  What glue, magical or otherwise, will hold under those circumstances?)And how would you have only one end well balanced.  Balanced against what?  The balance point is in the center.  If it isn't, it's not well balanced.Now by grafting different woods together as the tree grows you could come up with a branch that's ironwood on one end and boxwood on the other, but to do that would take years of work, considerable expertise and patience, all to intentionally create an inferior quarterstaff?  At that point you couldn't "masterwork" the whole thing because one end would be crap.Over all, though, there's no way to make just one end master worked.  For either end to work well, you need balance and grip, and that takes place at the middle.</blockquote>