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Sharing my very first antique gunong. The blade is restored. Maybe someone can identify the wood?
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Hi H0ll0wman:
Very nice gunong. It's unusual to see so much lamination in a gunong blade, probably because they are seldom etched. The wood is high quality banati (bunti) with good grain definition. It's used a lot on barung and kris hilts also. The wood has a fine grain that carves and polishes well. A notable feature of polished banati is that it usually shows chatoyance or a "cat's eye" effect. I believe I can see evidence of that in your pictures. |
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A beautiful gunong. Congratulations on you acquisition. I would agree with Ian's comments and would add that the fittings look silver and this piece would really snap if you polished it up. Silver fittings are meant to be seen clean and polished.
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Very nice gunong indeed!
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Wow! 🤩🤩🤩
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I noticed when I acquired this gunong the fittings on the scabbard were color yellow/gold. When I polished it, it is now color silver. I am not sure if this is the original color or I erased the gold/yellow plating when I polished it.
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Correction. Blade length is 7 inches without the hilt.
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I would say that your example likely has a copper-silver alloy, such as coin silver (silver 90%, copper 10%), which was fairly common on gunong. |
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Really nice gunong you have here, early 20th century would be my age guess. Now the silver looks how it should do! ![]() Regards, Detlef |
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![]() ![]() And be careful, they are addicting, see here: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ghlight=gunong Regards, Detlef |
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You have a fine gunong. The banati wood is as nice as I have seen. The laminations in the blade are unusually “active “. It is 100 times better than my first gunong. Congratulations!
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Have fun, Leif |
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