No doubt about it the pike [spike] part could be fixed to the wooden staff with a ferrule, or a metal ferrule [ring] could be applied to the staff to prevent splitting the timber if the spike were to be forced into the end of it.   We used to drill holes in timber with a red hot poker, due to the lack of an auger, when we were children.

----hold the floor??   door not suit better.

"It"s fare ye weel ma pikestaff"

Were pikestaffs and quarterstaffs not two different weapons, the latter with no metal parts being more accessable to ordinary folk.