Mithral Spear?

[Pheoran Armiez]

Basic question, what would the stats be for a spear completely composed of mithral? I understand a spear is mostly made of wood but suspending disbelief that a blacksmith could shape metal into the general shape of a spear (gasps!) what would it look like statistically? Also, I realize it would be better to figure out the statistics of a spear made of metal before jumping to that most delicious of metals known as mithral (drools) but I figured I would save time and skip that step. Thanks ahead of time!

Mithral Spear
Cost: 3,002 gp; Dmg (m): 1d8; Crit: x3; Range: 20 ft.; Weight: 3 lbs.; Type: Piercing; Special: brace, masterwork, overcomes DR as silver, rust monster delicacy

[Timebomb]

Well that would be exactly what it would look like, save that it would be heavier, probably around 24 lb (mithril is basically fantasy aluminum, which is 4 times denser than wood, and 3 times less dense than steel).
That said that is an absolute shameing waste of 3k gold. I would double it's range, or increase it's damage dice (and make it a martial weapon), something.

[Pheoran Armiez]

Timebomb wrote:

Well that would be exactly what it would look like, save that it would be heavier, probably around 24 lb (mithril is basically fantasy aluminum, which is 4 times denser than wood, and 3 times less dense than steel).

Thanks for the weight insight, that was very helpful.

Probably wouldn't work too well as a mundane weapon but I was sort of hoping to use it as the base for a magic weapon (I suppose once it is magical it can offset some of those pesky "science" things that get in the way of my dreams, like density and weight).

[Timebomb]

It's magic? It could be made of glass and I would still accept it working, because magic.
Follow the rule of cool: If it is awesome, ignore logic.
You could also justify that mithril has 3 times the hardness and HP per inch of wood, therefor the weapon would only need 1/3 the material, at 4 times the density this puts the weight at 8 lb.

[Queen Moragan]

I thought that the weights for steel-to-wood was listed somewhere but could not find it (I think it is in 3.5 somewhere).

Without that, I would say a wooden object made out of steel would weigh 2 or 3 times as much, that would be 12 lbs or 18 lbs, which would cost 6,000 gp or 9,000 gp for a mithral spear that weighs 6 lbs or 9 lbs.

The case could also be made for a metal spear weighing 4 times as much also!

[Slime]

My take on it:
Pay the price of making it with mithril and apply the Mithril benefits to the whole weapon (as you did) and describe it as Darkwood-Shafted and Mithril Bladed. And Bang! High-level material spear.