And Yet Another Bolo

[migueldiaz]

Robert, thanks for the comments.

Your new sword looks like it's chisel-ground (thus, Visayan as we all know). I have a sword with a similar blade profile, which is also Visayan (pic is below).

As for the hilt, there's a Visayan blade (Samar to be exact) in Krieger's catalogue with a similar form:

"Plate 13 -- Hand weapons for cutting, piercing, and stabbing: Knives and daggers. No. 1. Dagger; triangular sectioned, curved, and pointed blade; single cutting edge; carved wood handle. Quinapundar, Samar Island."

As an aside, triangular sectioned means that it's the dreaded tres cantos (three corners), as we call it locally. Is it true that such blade cross-section was banned by the Geneva Convention, as it's very hard to sew up the wound created? Heard this from an expert Pawn Stars got, in one episode

As for the "young lady", she said that her sundang has been with her for the last 50 to 60 years or so. That's also one thing I noticed in the area -- the sundang they got when they were in their teens and twenties continue to be the ones they use up to now.

Thus through years of grinding, the blades' present width compared with the scabbard width has a huge disparity by this time (see pic).

[Sajen]

Hello Robert,

two interesting new aquisitions for your ever growing collection and thank you that you part them with us. Never will get bored to see your Bolos.

Regards,

Detlef