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Scarf welding is not particularly uncommon on Malay sundang, but this is my first experience with it on a Moro kriss. The forte seems to be from steel more comparable to 'pamor' steel, but you can easily see where that stops and the more imaginative pattern weld begins.
The copper-wrapped hilt is unique as well. Last edited by CharlesS; 17th April 2022 at 04:33 PM. Reason: pictures omitted |
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It's always interesting to see these sort of details. I wonder if this was a matter of using up material that was on hand, or a repair-recycle of a broken blade.
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I'd like to see the other side of the blade near the tang/grip. The delamination in the middle looks like a smith that got too fancy stacking and forge welding & didn't want to start over and waste more time on it, rather than a scarf. A scarf near the tang between a less hard & more resilient tang piece, and a hardener blade would not be uncommon or deleterious in a new blade or a repaired blade whose tang had snapped for being too hard. Is that copper or suasa alloy? Looks rather untarnished for copper.
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Only testing will tell for sure.
However, by the hue of the metal, I'm actually leaning toward copper. |
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More pics...definitely polished copper and the scarf weld.
You may have already noticed a considerable number of forging flaws in the pattern weld. |
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