Philippine Punal

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ferguson

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Found this sweet little punal on Ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6579133721&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MEWN:IT&rd=1

As you can see, it was in terrible shape. Tip broken, edge had been ground on a grinder. But it looked like it had promise. I don't really like to take older pieces to the belt grinder, but this one required it. Reshaped the tip to what I've seen on other pieces, and cleaned up the edges to get rid of the grinder marks. Turned out ok I think. After etching, it had a really nice pattern. One thing that I couldn't show in the pictures, is that the steel in the center of the blade kind of sparkles when you turn the blade in the light. I haven't seen this before. Kind of crystalline looking. Neat but strange effect.

Blade lenght is 5 1/2"
Overall length is 9 1/8"
Blade thickness at center ridge is .215"

Thanks for looking.

Steve Ferguson
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Wonderful, Steve.

There would have been nothing wrong with this thread over in HI forum proper. I guess we keep trying to figure which goes where.

Old Steel hints of the times when it was used. I like old rifles. I like looking at the metal in a Mauser reciever and wondering what the long arm saw when it was young. Your knife is like that.


munk
 
Probably so friend Munk, but I like to confine my posts in the HI forum to HI products. It's probably wrong, but I feel like posting about other knives somehow takes away from Yangdu and the kamis. Silly maybe, but then I'm a silly guy.:D

Steve
 
I have a pattern welded blade with meteor iron in it and the nickle in it sparkles when the light hits it the right way. Maybe nickle?
 
Mr Ferguson...Take a bow!
For -
The fine restoration of a sweet blade.
The photographic capturing of the character we seek in all blades.
And for sharing.


Brent

Can't take my eyes off it - must be in love!
 
a lot of filipino/malaysian blades were made from pattern welded or laminated steel, the keris/kris were deliberately etched with lime juice & arsenic to darken the blade & bring out the patterning, including the sparkly nickel inclusions. some of the filipino tribes would 'whiten' their weapons as a sign they were going to war, and a lot of the old flip blades were 'whitened' to sell to the yankees who had not yet learned to appreciate an etched & patterned blade. finding these jewels on ebay is still the cheapest way into 'damascus' steel swords and knives...
 
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