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8th May 2012, 05:32 AM
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Thanks for the pics. There's a "Bucao" street in Iriga City, Albay province in the Bicol region, which province is known for producing traditional Bicol blades. And Bucao is a family name.
Iriga City by the way is a place to go to, if one is looking for newly made traditional Bicol blades. |
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8th May 2012, 05:48 AM
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And bocao also happened to be a Bicol term for a knife or tool, per the entry below in Marcos de Lisboa's 1754 Bicol-Spanish dictionary.
Perhaps our Spanish-speaking friends can translate the entire definition under bocao? 
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8th May 2012, 06:08 PM
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9th May 2012, 01:08 AM
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From Malcolm Mintz's Bicol-English dictionary (thanks to Nonoy Tan):
bukaw [pronounced BOO-cow] - referring to a knife or other tool or implement which is in the process of being forged or an earthenware pot which is in the process of being worked; MA-, -ON or MAG-, PAG--ON to be in the process of working on a knife, took, pot [MDL, i.e., Marcos de Lisboa] |
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9th May 2012, 03:06 AM
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A work in progress; steel or clay ?
Something is missing . 
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9th May 2012, 05:36 AM
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Hence the "Bucao" engraved on the blade must be referring to the owner's family name... |
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9th May 2012, 06:40 AM
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Seeing as it can refer to a knife, tool, other implement or pot being worked (possibly at a certain stage) could it just be a term for heat treated ??
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14th May 2012, 03:33 AM
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This Bicol blade is from Vandoo's collection.
The engraved "duggan" text on the blade can mean two things once again - either the family name of the former owner, or the name of a process in making the blade. On the latter, we see this definition of duggan or dugang from the Bicol-English dictionary by Mintz: dugang - 'to cool and harden (metal after it has been cast) [MDL]'. 'MDL' refers to Marcos de Lisboa's 1754 Bicol-Spanish dictionary. |
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