Panabas Bading

[Battara]

Here is a "before" picture.

[Robert]

Jose, Thank you for the photo showing how the copper and silver banding was constructed as well as the before photo. Now another question, are the copper bands solid, seamed or overlapped and either folded or nailed? When looking how the wood is a much larger diameter on the end were the tang is inserted into the hilt, it makes me wonder how they would have been put into position if they are solid.

Best,
Robert

[Sajen]

Hello Jose,

great looking panabas after your like usual good work. Have the same question like Robert.

Best regards,
Detlef

[Battara]

The bands are hard soldered but that section is smaller than the section without bands, so I imagine that the tang is long and the it was pressure fit into the banded section with pitch.

One exception - the first band next to the blade has a copper rivet through that band and the blade, keeping it tight.

I also made a lot of copper nails to replace missing ones.

[xasterix]

Apologies for necro-ing this thread, Jose. Just curious if your Maranao contacts back then called this particular panabas as "bading." In Tagalog, bading means "girly gay." Not that I have anything against them, I'm just curious if it has the same meaning in whatever language your Maranao contacts used, and why this panabas would qualify as such. Thanks!

[drac2k]

Wonderful panabas! I haven't seen one with copper bands before; We have seen Philippine copper and brass blades used for their magical properties and I was wondering if there was a connection or were these just used as materials of convenience?

[Rafngard]

Originally Posted by xasterix

Apologies for necro-ing this thread, Jose. Just curious if your Maranao contacts back then called this particular panabas as "bading." In Tagalog, bading means "girly gay." Not that I have anything against them, I'm just curious if it has the same meaning in whatever language your Maranao contacts used, and why this panabas would qualify as such. Thanks!

A friend of mine is Cebuano, but speaks some Meranao and lives in Davao. She tells me that "bading" can mean the same as it does in Tagalog, but can also mean a few other things, including a type of cloth, or a type of blade, depending on context. If a blade is "baading," with a long "A" then that means that it's been poisoned.

My friend knows a local blade smith that she was going to be visiting anyway in the near future, and she'll see if her friend has any more info.

Thanks,
Leif

[xasterix]

Originally Posted by Rafngard

A friend of mine is Cebuano, but speaks some Meranao and lives in Davao. She tells me that "bading" can mean the same as it does in Tagalog, but can also mean a few other things, including a type of cloth, or a type of blade, depending on context. If a blade is "baading," with a long "A" then that means that it's been poisoned.

My friend knows a local blade smith that she was going to be visiting anyway in the near future, and she'll see if her friend has any more info.

Thanks,
Leif

That's really interesting! Thanks for that info bit Leif. I wouldn't want to be hit with a panabas, a poisoned one seems even worse!