One too many slivers of wood peeled off the tapered shaft meant it was suddenly loose and I had to trim the entire taper down another 1/4 inch all around, essentially starting over. I made the mistake of tapering an ash shaft for my hewing spear while talking to a friend. Learn to fight with: Longsword, Sword & Buckler, Dussack, Messer, Spear. Some advice: When you taper down the shaft once you get close to a fit GO SLOW and check the fit OFTEN. If you mount a blade of messer type in a sword type hilt, you get a Falchion. I'd just drive something small, pointy and metal into the shaft through a rivet hole is what I'd do. But look around for some examples if you want to do it. No historical evidence either way on that one AFAIK, just personally I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't drill a hole and put in the rivet. Wood has grain, and grain might (probably will) warp the rivet/nail as it is driven through and who knows where the point will end up on the other side. The point is this: if you've got two holes you probably don't try and drive the rivet/nail into through the shaft and aim (and hope) for it to pop out the hole on the other side.
One hole? Two holes? Yes and yes, and possibly some without holes, but I'm not basing that off any historical finds I know of, just that it is a real possibility- and I trust Timo about that. It does not seem uncommon to find one with a rivet (in the general old sense of the word- really a nail or big pin) still attached to the socket. We've got a lot of artifactual spears from the Franks, Vikings and others.
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