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5th January 2007, 04:43 PM

Flavio

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Ian

Flavio:

I believe that is a striped wood called banati, which is used quite often for pommels on barung, kris, kampilan, etc. It's a very desirable and expensive wood among moro communities.

Ian.

Yes, i see now that the top piece of the pommel is a piece of ivory (is right?

) glued to the banati part, sorry

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