I just use wire ones, mostly Northstar but the perry ones with cast heads are very nice & less sharp. The ones Dixon do are I think the if you don't like wire ones, the detail of the head is particularly good.
I have for years, turned my own pikes out of piano wire and used a dremel to get the head. Now I am using the aNorthstar pikes. I have been meaning to get a stock from Nick for a long time but have not yet done so. It is on the to do list. His are made from small welding rods.
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In the states you can go to Ace Hardware and get thin brass rods that you cut to size and dremmel a tip onto. But all of the flag poles on my Palatinate troops are Northstar pikes cut to length. So yes they do fit, and as was pointed out pointy sharp. (ouch)
They do very well as they are quite slim, slimmer in fact that than the shafts of most white metal pikes & spears. These include the half pikes & pole arms form the Warfare command packs.
Apart form the first lot, which used VVV brass 60mm "lances" all my admittedly rather small number of pikemen use them.
Where on the Perry site can I find the cast pike heads? My google fu is weakening since I only see Japanese spears?
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