Aahaaa...the SIDES of the blades you say! It seems so strange now; Never once when reading it have I imagined that the description was along that axis. It makes so much more sense now. Thanks for explaining that David!
Then this is a
parang indeed!
As I tried to ask before, albeit poorly frased was, if the term
parang ilang isn't reserved for specimens with the small knife included, the term ilang referring to the small knife itself?
I'll work on the pictures, but I can't promise anything at the moment as I'm in between addresses and all boxed up. I just snapped the above crude ones at work right when it showed up, but I'll look into some better ones asap.
All the best, - Thor