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Most welcome, my pleasure
You live in Texas and grew up in Duri, Sumatra. Does it related to oil company?
Hope you remember the durian, at the moment is durian season.
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Into the deep of Bornean Jungle
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Hope you remember the durian, at the moment is durian season.
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I did not go out, just wandering around camp.
Helping on data, plant identification and verification..
Have a little walk around camp up to the helipad.
Mushrooms around camp
Edible
Just for fun, burnt log
A bunch of dipterocarp resin, not the best one. The best one come from Shorea javanica, the sap produced by this species is clear.
We called it Damar Kaca (literally translate; Crystal/glass Resin). For this picture, people called as damar batu (stone resin since it has dark earth color). Natural product for paint industry, we the biggest exporter. My research for my master was on the role of plantation for primates conservation, one of the plantation that i surveyed is traditional plantation of Lampungese (people from Lampung Province, Sumatra). Along the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, there is a belt of dipterocarp plantation, on that year about 50,000 hectares. A forest-like plantation. Hundreds of tree species, almost all of wild animal occur on that kind of plantation, rhino, tiger, elephant, Sumatran serow (a wild goat endemic of Sumatra) etc. The local love to primates since the primates able to control the production of sap. Dipterocarp has mass flowering season which is not every year, it is between 3-5 year. When the dipterocarp has flower, the sap will only produced in small quantity, a reducing. By the existence of the primates which eat the flower, the sap production will relatively stable.
If we run out of alcohol/fuel for our stove we use the resin as a tinder. It's work really well. Just burn it inside of pile of wood (sometime wet wood), it help to burning the wood nicely.
More pics later....
Helping on data, plant identification and verification..
Have a little walk around camp up to the helipad.
Mushrooms around camp
Edible
Just for fun, burnt log
A bunch of dipterocarp resin, not the best one. The best one come from Shorea javanica, the sap produced by this species is clear.
We called it Damar Kaca (literally translate; Crystal/glass Resin). For this picture, people called as damar batu (stone resin since it has dark earth color). Natural product for paint industry, we the biggest exporter. My research for my master was on the role of plantation for primates conservation, one of the plantation that i surveyed is traditional plantation of Lampungese (people from Lampung Province, Sumatra). Along the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, there is a belt of dipterocarp plantation, on that year about 50,000 hectares. A forest-like plantation. Hundreds of tree species, almost all of wild animal occur on that kind of plantation, rhino, tiger, elephant, Sumatran serow (a wild goat endemic of Sumatra) etc. The local love to primates since the primates able to control the production of sap. Dipterocarp has mass flowering season which is not every year, it is between 3-5 year. When the dipterocarp has flower, the sap will only produced in small quantity, a reducing. By the existence of the primates which eat the flower, the sap production will relatively stable.
If we run out of alcohol/fuel for our stove we use the resin as a tinder. It's work really well. Just burn it inside of pile of wood (sometime wet wood), it help to burning the wood nicely.
More pics later....
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I love posts like this! :thumbup:
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I did not go out, just wandering around camp.
Helping on data, plant identification and verification..
Have a little walk around camp up to the helipad.
Mushrooms around camp
Edible
Just for fun, burnt log
A bunch of dipterocarp resin, not the best one. The best one come from Shorea javanica, the sap produced by this species is clear.
We called it Damar Kaca (literally translate; Crystal/glass Resin). For this picture, people called as damar batu (stone resin since it has dark earth color). Natural product for paint industry, we the biggest exporter. My research for my master was on the role of plantation for primates conservation, one of the plantation that i surveyed is traditional plantation of Lampungese (people from Lampung Province, Sumatra). Along the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, there is a belt of dipterocarp plantation, on that year about 50,000 hectares. A forest-like plantation. Hundreds of tree species, almost all of wild animal occur on that kind of plantation, rhino, tiger, elephant, Sumatran serow (a wild goat endemic of Sumatra) etc. The local love to primates since the primates able to control the production of sap. Dipterocarp has mass flowering season which is not every year, it is between 3-5 year. When the dipterocarp has flower, the sap will only produced in small quantity, a reducing. By the existence of the primates which eat the flower, the sap production will relatively stable.
If we run out of alcohol/fuel for our stove we use the resin as a tinder. It's work really well. Just burn it inside of pile of wood (sometime wet wood), it help to burning the wood nicely.
More pics later....
The third mushroom picture is incredible looking. Do you know the name?
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Unfortunately i am not able to identify it. It is, i guess young form/early stage of its
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One of my very good friend gave a golok, for free and asked me to have a quick review.
So, i brought it to the forest. I walked alone before have breakfast.
i did some comparison with my other golok.
I am not trying to give a lecture, just my impression on this blade and how i handle a golok usually.
How people usually grip a golok for working, the handle is not comfortable
It is feel really good if we handle it like this, but you can't easily work with this kind of grip.
So, why?
Picture taken in my office and my home, see the notch
The notch, after few hit, create light blister, pic taken in the forest
This golok came out very sharp, i am not a hairy man, but has enough hair to proof that this golok is sharp
Log on the ground is a dipterocarp tree, inner/core quite hard
Try few hits
See an ironwood log, years on the ground
No chipping no rolling
Few hair cut
I think the mystery steel executed very well, most Indonesian have no ideas of the steel composition. They do the treatment base on the color of steel when forged and sparks produced
I hope that it able to cut the rattan in one hit, but unfortunately no, Am i going weaker? Or the grind?
Most of Indonesian golok full flat or semi convex, but this golok is convex.
Also, the curve on the end of the handle is not really comfortable
Compared to this
I think i have to do something for the handle to make it comfortable, i am satisfied with the HT of the blade.
More picture later..
So, i brought it to the forest. I walked alone before have breakfast.
i did some comparison with my other golok.
I am not trying to give a lecture, just my impression on this blade and how i handle a golok usually.
How people usually grip a golok for working, the handle is not comfortable
It is feel really good if we handle it like this, but you can't easily work with this kind of grip.
So, why?
Picture taken in my office and my home, see the notch
The notch, after few hit, create light blister, pic taken in the forest
This golok came out very sharp, i am not a hairy man, but has enough hair to proof that this golok is sharp
Log on the ground is a dipterocarp tree, inner/core quite hard
Try few hits
See an ironwood log, years on the ground
No chipping no rolling
Few hair cut
I think the mystery steel executed very well, most Indonesian have no ideas of the steel composition. They do the treatment base on the color of steel when forged and sparks produced
I hope that it able to cut the rattan in one hit, but unfortunately no, Am i going weaker? Or the grind?
Most of Indonesian golok full flat or semi convex, but this golok is convex.
Also, the curve on the end of the handle is not really comfortable
Compared to this
I think i have to do something for the handle to make it comfortable, i am satisfied with the HT of the blade.
More picture later..
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I am really sorry for belated reply, was away from internet for a while.
Unfortunately, i am not vacation.
Have no complete pictures of it.
Couple pics
Hting is good, but kinda a scandi grind bowie on purpose of the etching on the blade. I am totally not fan of etched blade or ornamented blade, it is belong to my friend. He asked me to test it.
Balance is not good too bulky, handle not really ergonomic.
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Pics taken in the same day when i did the review on golok
An insect
Dipterocarp resin
Mother of Earth always loves us, she put the sign everywhere
Rattan
The torn, see the structure, 3-5 spikes in each place.
If you go to the forest with your local guide and he shorter than you, just be careful to your hat, forehead, eyes and ears.
The locals will only cut it at their maximum reach.
The moths
Mantis
More pictures later
Happy New Year, all the best for 2013
An insect
Dipterocarp resin
Mother of Earth always loves us, she put the sign everywhere
Rattan
The torn, see the structure, 3-5 spikes in each place.
If you go to the forest with your local guide and he shorter than you, just be careful to your hat, forehead, eyes and ears.
The locals will only cut it at their maximum reach.
The moths
Mantis
More pictures later
Happy New Year, all the best for 2013
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One of my very good friend gave a golok, for free and asked me to have a quick review.
So, i brought it to the forest. I walked alone before have breakfast.
i did some comparison with my other golok.
I am not trying to give a lecture, just my impression on this blade and how i handle a golok usually.
How people usually grip a golok for working, the handle is not comfortable
It is feel really good if we handle it like this, but you can't easily work with this kind of grip.
So, why?
Picture taken in my office and my home, see the notch
The notch, after few hit, create light blister, pic taken in the forest
This golok came out very sharp, i am not a hairy man, but has enough hair to proof that this golok is sharp
Log on the ground is a dipterocarp tree, inner/core quite hard
Try few hits
See an ironwood log, years on the ground
No chipping no rolling
Few hair cut
I think the mystery steel executed very well, most Indonesian have no ideas of the steel composition. They do the treatment base on the color of steel when forged and sparks produced
I hope that it able to cut the rattan in one hit, but unfortunately no, Am i going weaker? Or the grind?
Most of Indonesian golok full flat or semi convex, but this golok is convex.
Also, the curve on the end of the handle is not really comfortable
Compared to this
I think i have to do something for the handle to make it comfortable, i am satisfied with the HT of the blade.
More picture later..
WOW. I'm working with Condor on that style etching right now. That is the first I've seen on a golok besides one that I've drawn up. really cool!