A rather nice Barung
 

Hi all!!!!

It's passed a lot of time from my latest post with some new stuff... Hope to have time to post soon some of my new pieces!
Anyway here we go! A rather nice barung, or barong if you prefer :D (thank you Gustav!!)
I made the rattan bindings with the tutor of this old, but always helpful post of Mr Yarom

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...Binding+Rattan

Than I have etched the blade and a nice lamination pop up. The rest is normal routin (silver cleaning, wood claening, etc...)
Hope you like it

Flavio ;)

Very nice barung and perfect restore job! :)

Regards,

Detlef

Thank you, Detlef :)

Lovely piece and nice rattan work. Congrats!

Nicely restoration!

Michael

Thank you guys! :) It was a quite simple restoration project, indeed :rolleyes:
Now I have a question: do you think that the barung and the scabbard are contemporary? Seems to me that the scabbard is older respect the barung.... :shrug:

Nice piece and nice work - no I think the scabbard is late 19thc or turn of the century.

Hello Flavio,

I wouldn't be surprised if both were contemporary. If one of them happens to be younger my vote would be the scabbard.


Congrats, that's a new pattern for me! I've seen randomly-placed blotches but this one is different and most likely intentional. Neat!

Regards,
Kai

I had it in my hands and my opinion is, both scabbard and blade are antique.

Hello Gustav,

Yes, think so, too.

I implied Flavio's comment to mean that blade and scabbard were contemporary to each other (not contemporary as in modern); sorry for the glitch.

Regards,
Kai

excellent work on the rattan bands, Flavio! also, the blade itself looks shandigan (minus the swollen edge)... is it relatively light (overall weight)?

Thank you all for your comments! I was thinking that the scabbard was late 19th century and the barung a little bit recent, but I'm not an expert at all, and this was just an idea that comes in my head. I'm in love this barung, I love it and I tried to restore the best I can :p What all you say, guys, just let me happier and more..... I can't post just some pics and say "Hey, look at this piece! Look at this excellent job I've done!" :p I want to read from you some other comments since it's a while that I can't partecipate to the forum and truth is that.... I miss you guys ;)
Anyway, thank you so much for your comments!

Spunjer, I'll let you know the overall weight :) but it's not so light....

Well I think you did a great job on the etching and on the rattan! :)

I'm in total agreement with everyone else on this, you have done a wonderful job on the etching and rattan work. Congratulations on this great addition to your collection.

Best,
Robert

I was thinking that those are places where the core is showing . :shrug:

Thank you all guys :)