Two kinds of sarissa?

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

At the labs at Vergina i had the chance to examine the infamous "link" of Andronicus. Actually only resin casts of them because the originals had been sent for an exhibition in Oxford.

There is no way that thing was a sarissa link! There is also little proof the two famous spear points belonged to the same weapon. The supposed head has a bigger diameter socket than the butt, and weigh about the same. The link has a smaller diameter than both! It also doesn't have a uniform diameter, neither a uniform thickness, being considerably thinner near its two sides, which haven't been welded together. It couldn't have been internal to the shaft either, since it is no cylindrical either, it has many sides. I wonder why people keep on reenacting the double shaft, using of course solid cylinder, of much bigger width and length, often with inserted nails...There is of course the transportation issue inside a car, I understand that, but to claim that this is based on actual finds and "theories" of archeologists...that's a plain lie!