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So, I have a couple of examples, that may be new weapons, but I do not know.
1) A club, with caltrops nailed in to do piercing damage.
2) A shield, with edges sharpened to deal slashing damage.
3) A ripsaw glaive, with the handle shortened to attack adjacent, but losing reach.
4) A helmet, with a sharpened spike on top.
5) A net, made of braided mithral or adamantine wire.
6) A log, fashioned with iron bands, and handles, otherwise known as a caber.
1) Its called a morning star.
2) Shield spikes do piercing damage. I wouldn't see an issue with a modification that would make it do slashing instead.
3) Nothing like this that I know of.
4) Its called armor spikes. The fact that it is on the helmet doesn't change this.
5) To increase hardness? I believe this is already supported within the rules.
6) Greatclub. Or perhaps a reflavored meteor hammer.
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1) Its called a morning star.
2) Shield spikes do piercing damage. I wouldn't see an issue with a modification that would make it do slashing instead.
3) Nothing like this that I know of.
4) Its called armor spikes. The fact that it is on the helmet doesn't change this.
5) To increase hardness? I believe this is already supported within the rules.
6) Greatclub. Or perhaps a reflavored meteor hammer.
1) Ah, that makes sense.
2) There was a 3.5 weapon called shield razors, that's what you describe, which is a bit different.3) See above link.
4) That makes sense too.
5) There are other reasons, but yes.
6) A Caber is a bit like a greatclub, but it is designed to be thrown to break up formations.
2) Did you want it to do something other than that?
3) Yeah, there just isn't anything like what you mentioned that I know of.
6) I would say that the average person is not adept at throwing them. In fact, I "won" the honor of participating in a caber toss competition by winning the hammer bell ringing game at a Ren Fair one year (chop enough wood, the game is easy). For the uninitiated: a caber is basically a telephone pole. I'm not built to be a caber tosser. The guys that were doing this successfully were tough man competition type guys in the 300+ lbs, raging barbarian variety. I was lucky enough that I could stand in place and wobble around with it in my hands, let alone swing it like a weapon and certainly not throw it any distance to speak of. I pretty much just dropped it forward and it tipped over.
Summary: I don't think it would be too much to ask that they take the Throw Anything feat to be able to throw something that really shouldn't even be able to qualify as a greatclub. If you want it to actually have a range incriment: Large sized greatclub. They deserve to eat the -2 inappropriately sized weapons penalty. Those things are UNWIELDLY. Trust me.
Giant Club = Tetsubo
Polearm Masters can use polearms as non-reach weapons.
The only mechanic a ripsaw glaive has is "Pull cord, gain +2 damage for number of rounds equal to Strength mod". It would be easy enough to create a one-handed weapon with the same mechanic.
Axe, Ripsaw
The blades of this axe are serrated and mounted on an axle with a heavy cord wrapped around it.
Benefit: A heavy cord is wrapped around the axle; when pulled (a move action), the blades spin rapidly for a number of rounds equal to your Strength bonus. While the blades are spinning, it deals +2 damage; otherwise, treat this weapon as a battleaxe. Re-wrapping the cord around the spinning mechanism is a full-round action that provokes an attack of opportunity.
You'd have an ugly Short sword
Buzzblade, boggle
This weapon is a toothy, circular blade vertically mounted on the end of a short handle. A tightly wound spring keeps the blade spinning when a trigger is pressed on the handle (free action). The blade can spin for 20 rounds before it needs to be rewound. Unwound, it works as a handaxe. The buzzblade takes 2 minutes to wind.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/equipment---final/3rd-party-equipment/3rd-Party-Wea pons