ODD PHILIPPINE, TOOL/KNIFE

[migueldiaz]

hi vandoo!

below are three pics of common phil. utility curvy blades. the one photographed by itself is the rice stalk cutter variety, and in the visayas it's called a garab. in luzon it's called a karit.

the handle of garabs would normally be the plain vanilla type, as shown.

the pic of of the blade on the waist of a person is called a sanggot (pronounced sung-GOHT). it's used by palm wine farmers (and said wine is locally called tuba).

the last blade, the one with the red-shirted farmer, is a visayan utility bolo called a lagaraw (pronounced log-a-RAO, and the last syllable rhymes with cow).

the hilt on that one would be the typical scroll-looking-pommeled visayan binangon.

your blade looks more like a garab/ karit, or a sanggot, as we can see.

hope this helps.