All Philll's fault...

Wow! That is looking like it is in need of a yard full of branches and trees to chop up and chop down. Awesome job on one of my (and apparently a lot of other people's) favorite non-khukuri blades. I enjoyed seeing it go from blade like chunk of steel to ready to hack down a telephone pole almost as much as I enjoy owning a plethora of it's sharp relatives. :D The problem with talent is you make it look too easy. I start to think heck I could do that... when I know from experience I can't LOL.
 
Very nice! One of you guys should make a Duku Chandong style Parang (also known as Ray Mears style). In my opinion those are the most useful kind of Parang. Only half of the "blade" is actually a blade, the lower half is totally square and meant to be used as a grip. This "extended choil", for lack of a better term, is long enough to fit your entire hand. When you hold a Parang by the wood hilt it's a weight-forward chopper, but when you hold it by the extended choil, the weight of the blade and the hilt balance each other out. So you're left with a 6 inch balanced blade you can do fine carving work with. Natives who use this kind of Parang use it for every kind of task both large and small.

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That's a way cool idea right there. Love the concept.

Yet another want/need to add to my list.
 
Man I love that damascus knife at the top. I'm a sucker for damascus and stag. Love the shape. And that's a beauty of a Parang too. Looks super.
 
Do you have a picture of the carving knives? I've never seen one. In the videos you see on YouTube of the native jungle folk over there, they seem to be using their parangs for every task.
 
blue lander said:
Very nice! One of you guys should make a Duku Chandong style Parang (also known as Ray Mears style). In my opinion those are the most useful kind of Parang. Only half of the "blade" is actually a blade, the lower half is totally square and meant to be used as a grip. This "extended choil", for lack of a better term, is long enough to fit your entire hand. When you hold a Parang by the wood hilt it's a weight-forward chopper, but when you hold it by the extended choil, the weight of the blade and the hilt balance each other out. So you're left with a 6 inch balanced blade you can do fine carving work with. Natives who use this kind of Parang use it for every kind of task both large and small.

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This one is set up the same way-maybe 4" of unedged choil, but still tapered enough to use to split. I thought they were all like that, so my old one's the same way.
I dressed out a deer with my ruck parang (13oz or so, 13"ish blade)-this was a deeply stupid experience, and I won't do it again, but it did work...
 
Hmmm....Deeply Stupid Experience....I think you've just struck on the title of my autobiography. Kind of rolls off the tongue like possum slobber don't it.
 
blue lander said:
Do you have a picture of the carving knives? I've never seen one. In the videos you see on YouTube of the native jungle folk over there, they seem to be using their parangs for every task.
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The carving knife is meant to be a utility or to compliment the versatile parang (Big knife matters). Pisau Raut as we call it here.
Personal collection of Nadir, the boss of Outdoor Dynamics Malaysia. Yes the same dude from myparang.com and responsible for promoting the Bidor parangs worldwide.

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Nice! I see a fire piston! Love them! I have made many of fire pistons. They are effortless once you get the technique right but its hard to make a good one! My favorite way to make fire. So outdoor dynamics = Bidor? i didnt know that. Thanks Jay!
 
I spent quite a bit of time trying to make a fire piston also. I never did perfect it. It was almost a personal challenge.

So far I have to chalk it up to a multitude of failures. I may try again one of these days.
 
Ive noticed most people try to make them way too big. I use 1/4" shaft and drill the hole sideways instead of in the end. Its easier to load that way and tinder dont fall out as easy. I do have it mastered now even in very humid conditions. It was a personal goal as well for me. Ive got the bow drill down as well making my own cordage with agave leaves or cedar bark. Agave is better but cedar trees are a dream for many reasons when it comes to firemaking. All my pistons were lost in the fire but i am collecting stuff for another.
 
ODM is not Bidor. They helped to make Bidor well-known for Parang. Bidor is actually a name of a town in Perak state of Malaysia.
 
I've seen that one with the long handle and short blade before, I think it was on a video of a guy carving a parang scabbard. I think sepuh crafts sells them sometimes.
 
Guessing you mean the one to the very left Blue with the swept shape blade? not the one that is the small blade that goes in the side of the scabbard of the middle parang? I always wondered about those small knives that go on the parang sheath. I mean they look more like an arrow than a knife with that narrow blade and the really long handle for the length of blade. Just always wondered why they evolved that particular way.
 
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