Silver Long Nose Visayan Taribon
 

Greetings folks! I bought this taribon from Royston (thank you so much). I restored it with a new top half of the missing nose (out of silver), and I made a new ear to replace the missing ear. Also I took the nickel plating taken off the blade and etched it. Finally I made a new scabbard (made out of paduk wood - a cousin in the same family with narra, but not endangered) and wrapped it in black rattan.

I also have to give credit to Nacho and Migueldiaz (Maraming Salamat!) for their sharing with me their museum examples and field research.

Enjoy! :D

Here are the before pictures:

Stunning craftsmanship my friend!
Steve

nice one, jose! one day... one day...

Beautiful taribon and outstanding work Jose. When you get tired of this looking at you all the time just let me know and I will be very happy to give it a new home.:D By the way, where is that envy smilie when you need one.

Robert

Nice one Battara.
Are the discs Spanish coins?

Thank you folks. Pleased as punch - never thought I would be able to own one. :D

Kino - the coins I were able to read are US occupation of the PI, both early and WWII, so I used such coins to match in making the missing ear.

BTW - I must also thank my friend and talented professional jeweler Tim Holbert: he made the base of the upper part of the nose (I carved out the inside so he could have something to go on, then I soldered the beads onto it.)

Awesome! I'll own one of these Taribon swords one of these days.

Just gotta add, most of these Visayan swords with the added metal plates reminds me a lot of Mechagodzilla. HAHA Nice Mechagodzilla sword. hehe :D

http://i2.listal.com/image/917382/60...screenshot.jpg

More secret language.... :-)
Could you please explain what is Taribon?

Ariel, Check out this thread it has loads of great information. :D http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ight=long+nose

Robert

Perfect restoration!! congratulations, I want to have your hands!!! :D
best regards
carlos

Hello Jose,

congratulations to your new friend! Like usual great work you have done by this! :)
Taribons are the most beautiful swords types I know and I hope that one day I can own one byself!

Best regards,

Detlef

Hi Battara
it far from my usual track ;)
but I love and appreciate when edged weapons lovers ,
restored with great skill and love, weapons that require
and do not excuse to let them .. "as they have found" ... ;)

thanks for the enjoyment

à +

Dom

Nose Job
 

Nice nose job. I doubt if one of Holywood's finest cosmetic surgeons could do as well :D

Roy

Incredibly well done, Jose! As always your restoration work is quite respectful of the piece.

I love the new scabbard, too. Before reading, I was about to comment on how I thought the scabbard was of recent philippine make, as they make this exact scabbard in Aklan nowadays. I honestly couldn't tell the difference!

Battara, nice! And it even has the moro-monggo.

Dear all - by the way and just to nitpick a little, it's called "taribong" with a "g" :) Thanks.

Jose, you have done a great job, as usual!

Michael

Thank you all folks. It has been almost a year in the making.

Also want to thank you Lorenz for the correction - bad memory (ah.....what was I typing again.........?) :o