Tim C and I have made stuff from instructions on His brother, Bill's web site.

Basically, we've gone to Orchard Supply hardware and bought a 5 or 6 inch piece of threaded steel plumbing pipe. You know th stuff, it's got a tapered thread on each end.

OK, you thread on a floor flange as hard as you can at one end. Now you drop the required number of plates over the pipe.

You get a threaded glavanized end cap for the other end. Drill that out right in the middle with a 1/4 inch or 3/8 inch hole. Stuff a cheap eye bolt in there, and back the nut down on it, on the inside.

for a handle, tim has an actual handle from Mjolnir Hammers. I have a 6-inch welded ring from Orchard supply. A couple of quick-links join the handle to the eye bolt and you're throwing.

For the hammer we just get a 4-foot piece of threaded, Gray 1-inch ABS pipe. Thread/cement a PVC end cap on there. Now drop 3 or 4, five pound weights on there and duct tape the dickens out of it....works great.

Our workout caber is a pressure-treated 6x6 that weighs about 75 pounds. I rounded off the ends a bit. However, now that I"ve handled the real thing, I know that the ends are too big....time for a power planer to shrink one end a lot and get it down to the right dimension.