I made some vampire stakes because of all those god damn dirty hobo vampires that live on my block. The bigger stake is made of oak and was a pain in the ass to sharpen and carve a cross into and the other one is pine which was super easy to sharpen and carve. I made the stakes stronger with FIRE! Just blasting some FIRE on it to heat seal the wood. I believe it’s called heat sealing… I also made the pointy ends stronger with vaseline, FIRE and rubbing a super smooth rock on it. Then I stained them, wrapped twine around them, used FIRE to clean up the twine, soaked the twine with epoxy and gave them a shinny gloss finish so that stinky vampire blood and other mysterious flesh from when they explode or whatever just slides right off. I also rubbed oil and acrylic paint into the cross and twine to make it look weathered and cooler.