Hi All,
Personally, I vote for fighting stick. These look like the kind of modifications routinely made to old quarterstaves (Lindholm, Fighting with the Quarterstaff), Portuguese staves (Preto, Jogo do Pau) and even some Japanese weapons. Basically, longer sticks work better primarily as spears rather than swung weapons, and adding some weight through metal bands is pretty normal too. It's a weapon for someone who a) doesn't want or have a lot of money to spend on weapons, and b) doesn't want something that's screamingly obvious as a weapon.
My 0.02 cents,
F
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