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Originally Posted by Battara
Bill, beautiful piece. The blade is definitely a datu piece with all of the silver. The grip I do question, although it is possibley that it is original with all of the fittings sold off. Thank you for sharing. I'll bet the baka-baka was okired silver as well. Oh yeah, one other note, the hilt is on backwards.
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Oops about the hilt. Just stuck it on for the pictures. Will reverse it. Was in a hurry.
BTW the light makes it look like silver, but the inlays are all a golden color.
The baca-baca that came with it is steel and has been here since the hilt was installed. Either the original owner fell on hard times and rehilted it a very long time ago, or he put all his money into getting the blade like he wanted it.
I like to think it was the last. As I understand it, these datu level pieces were very tailored to the customer from a smorgasboard of parts that then would be crafted into the finished piece.
Sometimes a customer could only afford some super high quality pieces. If it were up to me, I'd put my bucks in the blade.