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Here's mine, 1/4 1095 and 11 inches long. It's a beefy thing
The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 ea (shipped within CONUS). Now open to the forums as a whole. If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges. If there are customs issues? On you.
My latest acquisition is a Barung Semenanjung (i.e. Peninsular Malaysia Barung).
It's not a Barung Sabah (i.e. Barung Bidak Bajau or Sabah Barung or East Malaysia Barung).
And it's not a Barung Moro (i.e. Moro Barung or Southern Philippines Barong).
16 3/8" OAL, 11 1/8" blade, 5 1/4" handle, 2 3/8" width at the widest, ~ 3/16" thick at the thickest and ~ 1/12" thick at the tang with inverse distal tapered profile.
It was applied to a triple quench heat treatment process.
And since it's a field grade Barung so it was purposely made to have a hammer and coarse grind finish.
It's O'Katz Handmade from a piece of antiquated Solihull Land Rover 5160 (pre India and Brazil production) leaf spring steel.
Handle is made from a local Sepetir wood (i.e. Pseudosindora palustris).
The Peninsular Barung passed the brass rod test and a Cengal wood chopping test.
The first one also passed the nail cutting test and the tip drop on the concrete floor test.
I didn't do that to this second one because I consider it as rather abusive!
mohd
Beautiful knife Parfums!
Here is one I made recently 1075 steel with 9.5" blade and hamon spalted maple for the scales.
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This is one of my favorite knives I ever seen
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