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Originally Posted by RobT
The hilt/ferrule arrangement looks similar to a knife of mine which I had always thought was some form of Indonesian wedong. The ferrule is silver plated steel. The blade is about 7.625 in (19.3675 cm).
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Hello Rob,
I've seen several knives, "bolos", working knives from Bali/Lombok, some we have discussed before here:
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ht=wedung+bali
But I am not convinced that we can name them all with a special term, I'll try to research in future on this matter. See for example my one in the first picture.
There is no "some" form of a Javanese wedong/wedung, a wedung is a ceremonial court knife and follows a given pattern, see sec. pic. attached.
Best regards,
Detlef