Korean weapons?

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Just thought I would share this.

I friend i haven't seen in awhile came by today and had some things his grandfather had brought back from Korea during the war.

I'm thinking these were probably made for and sold to tourists but who knows.

The first one seems to be some sort of machete.



The next piece is the scariest thing I have ever seen, no idea what it is called.
 
The Negritos are the Aboriginals of the Philippines, and during WWII helped a lot of US pilots that were shot down. They were given the right to live on Clark AFB, and when i was passing thru there in the mid 80's they had a stand on base that you could buy all sorts of knives and bolos like you have there. I bought a pretty decent khukri there, and when the Movie "Cobra" came out and the bad guy had that knife with the weird knuckle guard with spikes, it showed at the movie theater at Clark. Two weeks later you could buy the reproduction of that knife at the Negrito knife stand. Supposedly the knives were made from car and truck springs. The second blade also looks like something from the Philippines. John
 
John A. Larsen said:
The Negritos are the Aboriginals of the Philippines, and during WWII helped a lot of US pilots that were shot down. They were given the right to live on Clark AFB, and when i was passing thru there in the mid 80's they had a stand on base that you could buy all sorts of knives and bolos like you have there. I bought a pretty decent khukri there, and when the Movie "Cobra" came out and the bad guy had that knife with the weird knuckle guard with spikes, it showed at the movie theater at Clark. Two weeks later you could buy the reproduction of that knife at the Negrito knife stand. Supposedly the knives were made from car and truck springs. The second blade also looks like something from the Philippines. John
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Very cool.

The finish on these is a little rough, but considering their age they must have been fairly well made.
 
You might want to google "Igorot Spears" another tribe in the Mountains in the Philippines, I think on Luzon. They had a lot of barbed spears, might be something they used. Is it a "Knife" type manufacture , hard to tell from the photo. John
 
I don't think it's flexible but there is no place to grabe it that isn't sharp. And that was the sheath/scabbard it was with. It looks like a stick when its put away.
 
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