Hi everybody.
I've been lurking on this forum for quite some time now, but now I actually have something to say.
I picked up this knife earlier today, because it has an indonesian feel.
I was wondering what these knives actually are called, since I've seen a couple of suggestions.
According to
http://old.blades.free.fr/daggers/siraui/siraui.htm, it is a siraui, but on p. 126 of Van Zonneveld's book, a different style of knife is called a siraui.
Just to make it all more complicated, that style of knife ends up being called a korambit in this thread:
http://www.vikingsword.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000968.html.
So... does anybody know what the name of these knives is? I don't think they qualify as korambits, since the cutting edge in on the outside of the blade. That leaves the two types of siraui, but are they just very different from eachother, or is one of them not a siraui?