I find myself wondering how someone with a two-ended weapon actually executes repeated piercing attacks; all double raw weapons that are capable of doing pierce damage that I know of (Dwarven Urgosh, Gnome hooked Hammer, monk's spade) do pierce damage only on one end; The Urgosh is similar to what you are describing, but in that it has an axe head at one end. If you can think of a way to wield it, I'd allow it.
Mechanically, you're getting away with a bit of cheese; the cheapest double weapon that does 1d8/1d8 has a gp cost of 60 gold, (Orcish double axe) while yours would have a compound cost of 25. The check does not mitigate the value imo. If you make the iron shod weigh 4 lbs instead of 2, and increase the cost to 45, I'd ballpark it as fair. Increase in weight is due to previously matching the lightest weight double 1d8/1d8 weapon at 10 lbs.
to answer your question Rainzax, though it is not my character, mechanically i would suggest no, since the only applicable boar spear does not have reach on the base.
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I find myself wondering how someone with a two-ended weapon actually executes repeated piercing attacks; all double raw weapons that are capable of doing pierce damage that I know of (Dwarven Urgosh, Gnome hooked Hammer, monk's spade) do pierce damage only on one end; The Urgosh is similar to what you are describing, but in that it has an axe head at one end. If you can think of a way to wield it, I'd allow it.
Mechanically, you're getting away with a bit of cheese; the cheapest double weapon that does 1d8/1d8 has a gp cost of 60 gold, (Orcish double axe) while yours would have a compound cost of 25. The check does not mitigate the value imo. If you make the iron shod weigh 4 lbs instead of 2, and increase the cost to 45, I'd ballpark it as fair. Increase in weight is due to previously matching the lightest weight double 1d8/1d8 weapon at 10 lbs.
to answer your question Rainzax, though it is not my character, mechanically i would suggest no, since the only applicable boar spear does not have reach on the base.
IMO, base weapon price and weight are trivial balance points, to the point that they are a complete non-issue as long as they aren't obviously silly (like 0 or negative). Just do whatever seems semi-realistic, because that's all those values are really there for.
As for the weapon itself, I'd imagine it would act more like (P or S) or S/B. If you double-weapon a spear, you're not really stabbing with it so much as slashing with the bladed portion. A double-weapon spear would have to have a longer head on it to allow this, but it's doable. That said, if mixing stab+slash works for the Urgosh, I see no reason that Stab+Whack wouldn't work for a double spear (which would simplify it to P/B). I am struggling to see how stab+slash works for Urgosh, though, so there's that... It was my thought that Urgosh was supposed to simply be an axe that could be braced using the pointy bit on the bottom, but I guess not.