Cold Steel Moro Barong

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Anybody use the Cold Steel Moro Barong for general camp use? I might be considering it. Looks like one Bad-Mofo! ;)

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Specifications:
Weight: 30.1 oz.
Blade Thickness: 1/4"
Blade Length: 18"
Handle: 4 3/4" long.
Steel: 1055 Carbon
Overall Length: 25"
Scabbard: Rosewood

I know it's advertised as a sword (weapon) but at 1/4" thikness seem plenty durable enough to be used to chop wood and it looks like it might work?
 
What the heck, you can always melt it down and build your own Yugo and drive home. You could use it for pole vaulting streams and lean it against a tree to sleep under :D
 
It's a bit bigger and heavier than anything I would care to use myself, but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work. I think it would be a bit heavy for any prolonged machete type work, but it seems that it would be fine for clearing a camp sight. If you do give it a try, let us know how it does with chopping or whatever other tasks you try it on.
 
CS has a much cheaper model that they just came out with. Cheaper for a beater. And, I don't like the looks of the pictured pinned-in handle; looks like if you really start chopping with that thing, the handle will come off. The only thing is, the new ones have a thin blade...3mm, which is around 1/8", unless I did the calculus wrong.
http://www.coldsteel.com/97ba12s.html
 
Having handled a real, native-made barong, I could say that it's design is really optimized as a weapon (the difference would probably be that it's not 1/4" thick like that CS).

Just going by pictures here too but I'm also under the impression that I could only tackle relatively lighter camp chores as excessive heavy chopping might stress the tang and pins. It seems a tad too long to wield too and what of the balance?

For a more handy and similar bladeshape, I'm TERRIBLY lusting after this Bark River, preferably in Blaze Orange G10 or Red Canvass micarta -

http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/795690/tp/1/
 
You guys have said everything that I was pretty much thinkin'. It's interesting enough though, but I am myself an axe person. :D

Looks like it would be darn fun to use. :cool:
 
i thought barongs in general were tools for farmers in the phillipines that got pressed into weapons status?

many old models that i have seen have a pinned handle like that one.
 
witchhunter said:
i thought barongs in general were tools for farmers in the phillipines that got pressed into weapons status?

many old models that i have seen have a pinned handle like that one.
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I think that's because they didn't have the technology to make them any other way.
 
pinned handles are fine. barongs were mostly weapons IIRC, not really tools. they were mostly used in Mindanao (Phillippines) and Sabah (Malaysia) by the Moro peoples.
 
Try a Blackjack Panga. I have been swinging mine for about a year without any issues and it is still sharp. Also comes in a great leather sheath for around $70.00
 
witchhunter said:
i thought barongs in general were tools for farmers in the phillipines that got pressed into weapons status?
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Well, generally speaking (I'm not much of an academic/historian) a lot of "weapons" design evolutions were.

However, from what I understand, this blade leaned more to be as a dedicated weapon and was favored by the Moro tribes of the South (i.e. - Tausugs). Here's a link for more info -

http://home.earthlink.net/~federicomalibago/moroweapons.html
 
spyken said:
pinned handles are fine. barongs were mostly weapons IIRC, not really tools. they were mostly used in Mindanao (Phillippines) and Sabah (Malaysia) by the Moro peoples.
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Which would you rather have? If your survival depended on it?
 
babakanoosh45 said:
Try a Blackjack Panga. I have been swinging mine for about a year without any issues and it is still sharp. Also comes in a great leather sheath for around $70.00
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:thumbup: I just looked at picture of it. Yeah, man, that handle ain't going nowhere!
 
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