Copper Bladed Gunong

[Robert]

Actually it looks Moro with a Luzon hilt.

I was thinking the same thing. If the hilt on my example was replaced with one like Steve has on his they (other than his blade has one more luk than mine) would look the exactly same. Same result if mine had a hilt like Steve's. As for the age of Steve's piece, I think both the blade and hilt are older and were married to produce the knife as it is now seen. The scabbard does not have as much taper from throat to toe as mine, but I have seen this on completely traditional gunongs as well. I have a small gunong in my collection http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ghlight=gunong where the blade looks like one from a talibong.

Best,
Robert