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Originally Posted by Newsteel
I doubt if that little dot of hole could hold enough cotton to clean the blood from the blade and cover the opening from the pierce as said. 
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Well, the hole runs deep into the hilt and cotton is both flexible and compressible/expandable so i think you could probable store enough cotton for the job in there. That doesn't support Lew's story as much as it doesn't deny it. This is still a hilt form that i have not seen for a panjang before, but i am sure that there is much that many of us have not seen before.

Is there some reason why your "very good source" can't be identified Lew?