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Old 18th November 2013, 02:40 PM   #6
blue lander
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Thank you for the information. I'm going to try to take a more detailed picture. Is there any way to tell roughly how old this golok is? The blade has a very rough texture and feels more like it's made out of sandstone than metal. If you run your finger nail down the blade you can actually feel the laminations. It also sparkles sometimes if it catches the light just right.

In my completely amateur and uninformed opinion, the cutting edge looks more to me like a sabre. I have a modern Zelsa golok which has a much thicker grind in comparison even though they're about the same thickness at the spine.

Can we learn anything from looking at the distal taper? It tapers down the first 1/4th or so of the blade, but then stays the same width until the very tip.
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