The hardest wood?

[tyrlaan]

I can't believe it took until post 10 for this joke to drop

 

[billd91]

Bluewood

Can you hammer a six-inch spike through a board with [it]?

 

[miniaturehoarder]

Find a spot in the rules requiring wooden hafts on axes and polearms. Go ahead and try.

I generally treat masterwork weapons as having metal hafts. if anyone complains, tell them there is precedence in the Monster Manual as the Salamander's spear is all metal.

 

[Voadam]

If OGL is OK I remember Bastion Press having a couple books with different materials, their Into the X series and Arms and Armor 3.5 jumping to mind.

 

[NewJeffCT]

Mentioned upthread, but here is the real world Ironwood, also called Ipe Wood.

Overall, Ipe is a difficult wood to work, being extremely hard and dense, with high cutting resistance during sawing. Ipe also has a pronounced blunting effect on cutting edges. The wood generally planes smoothly, but the grain can tearout on interlocked areas. Also, Ipe can be difficult to glue properly, and surface preparation prior to gluing is recommended. Straight-grained wood turns well, though the natural powdery yellow deposits can sometimes interfere with polishing or finishing the wood.

http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-identification/hardwoods/ipe/

sounds like it's great for a polearm, if you can fashion it

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Petrified, of course!

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

What time of day is it?

 

[cmad1977]

Morningwood.

God I'm infantile

 

[Cleon]

There is Aurorum (Book of Exalted Deeds pg 38) which when sundered, can reconnect if touched together as a full-round action. Wooden weapons might be able to be made from it.

So that's what Diana the Acrobat's staff is made of...