This one has a leather sheath. The handle is made of wood with a metal crossguard. Again single-edged and very sharp. The edge is on the straight side of the blade.
Total length : 60 cm
Handle : 15 cm
Thickness of blade near the handle : 1 cm
A leather sheathed Phil. bolo points to a Luzon origin. And then in the pics in the very first post, I thought I saw a peened tang. Thus once again, peened-tang blades are characteristic of Luzon bolos.
9th December 2009, 12:31 AM
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