Thick knife frome Bali/Lombok

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Originally Posted by RobT

The hilt/ferrule arrangement looks similar to a knife of mine which I had always thought was some form of Indonesian wedong. The ferrule is silver plated steel. The blade is about 7.625 in (19.3675 cm).

Hello Rob,

I've seen several knives, "bolos", working knives from Bali/Lombok, some we have discussed before here: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ht=wedung+bali
But I am not convinced that we can name them all with a special term, I'll try to research in future on this matter. See for example my one in the first picture.

There is no "some" form of a Javanese wedong/wedung, a wedung is a ceremonial court knife and follows a given pattern, see sec. pic. attached.

Best regards,
Detlef