Barong Junggayan Restoration Process

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Greetings!

As per request by the owner of this barong (who wishes to remain anonymous), this post will be of the process of my restoration efforts for this barong.

When I received this barong, I found that the dark pommel was made of horn, but with some ivory and later cheap and poorly worked bone pieces. You will also notice that one side of the underside of the pommel is a later dark wood replacement (without ivory or bone).

The "nose" of the pommel was partially carved on one side but unfinished on the other.

On the top of the pommel was a section made of 2 poorly carved pieces of bone.

On the hilt, one silver band was missing and the other was missing a part and broken, with an ugly attempt of lead soft soldering. The bottom of the punto was dented.

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Part of the process was to get some pre-ban ivory "bark" for the middle of the top and replacement ivory plugs. I had to make a new boring tool to cut out the ivory dots:

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Here is the horn pommel with out the later poorly carved bone replacements, and without the later wood replacement section:

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So I cut the ivory and fit it for the top of the pommel.

I also got a piece of horn, cut it to fit, and then drilled holes and placed the plugs within them.

Here are the pictures:

(Later I also cut and placed the ivory triangles to fit. I then polished the horn and ivory.)

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Now for the bands:

I had to remake one from scratch too match the others.

The second band was partially salvageable, so I remade the broken and lead soldered section (you can't hard solder with lead - it eats through the silver). I then hard soldered the new section to the old section, and then stamped and chased that section to match the rest of the band.

(I also added a small rounded extra band between the pommel and the hilt.)

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After I then pierced the nose and finished carving it, I polished everything, and here it is: