Traditional or no?

[DITCH]

The balisong.
I wonder if any here would consider this a traditional knife.
Given that that the puukko is sort of the national/traditional knife of Finland, would the balisong also qualify as the national/traditional knife of the Phillipines?

Jus' wonderin'.

 

[Blues]

The balisong may be considered traditional in the Philippines but for the purposes of discussion in this forum it would not be.

Fortunately, we have a forum dedicated to balisongs here.

(While there may be some traditional balisongs that might be of interest, Gus and I would be hard pressed to filter out numerous threads on such knives and move them to the proper discussion forums and it's not a task we need or want to take on.)