Another Moro-Kamp.
 

I just received this beauty.

It has a very nice old glossy patin, and it still has all the original pegs in the handle were the hair was attached in the early days.

Also the blade has very nice laminations but probably re-shaped at the tip (not recently done in my eyes), it has a "cool" lamination on it :cool: . It is also hardened from the cutting edge to the middle of the blade.

Any comments would be welcome!

Regards,
Maurice

A lovely looking sword Maurice.
I agree the 'handled' patina on the woodwork is particularly attractive.
Congratualtions
Gene

That's beautiful. Love the laminations in the blade.
Steve

more pics of blade lamination!
 

Thanks Gene!

Steve, here two more pics of the lamination. However in some way I am not able getting better pictures of the blade lamination.


Maurice

nice laminations :)

Agreed on the beautiful lamenations! I've an old Sulu kris with much the same lamination although the lamination has separated at the tip. I'd once heard that you could calculate the age of an old nickel/iron mix cause they tended to separate after 200 years. Can't remember where I heard it and no idea if there is any truth to that?

I am very interested to have a look at the old Sulu krisblade you have. Is it possible to post a photo of it?

Good to see you posting again, Dan .
I want pics also ........ :D :D

wh:eek:a! nice to see ya back, dan! how's everything with you? been to p.i. recently???

Sulu kris
 

I thought I had shown this one before but cannot find the pictures or the post so here is what it looks like today. The scabbard was partially re wrapped with grass in Jolo, Sulu and the top of the scabbard was also shellacked. we soaked the blades we picked up there in coconut vinegar inside a hollowed out bamboo section which really made the lamination POP OUT!

And for you other two reprobates. Yes I left Cotabato in late June 2008 (funny how things blew up after my group left - maybe I should have stayed) didn't pick up a single item there :( But made some great friends. After a house maintenance trip to Thailand ended up in the Federated Island Nation of Hawaii (is it REALLY part of the US- I don't think so!) May as well have not even left Okinawa cause the neighborhood I live in - all Japanese. Imagine my shock at hearing perfect English coming from an Asian face after 25 years in Asia :D Bro even the houses and gardens are the same! More later on a different thread.

Lovely blade laminations!

Back to the original kampilan thread. I wonder if the usual method of attaching hair to the kampilan handle was wood? Or other substances?

Thank you for posting the photographs... The lamination of your kris indeed looks like the lamination on the upper half of the kampilan blade.



In the handle of the kampilan it looks like wooden pegs. It has the same coulour and patin as the handle itself...