Ok boys and girls. It looks some things have changed.
First the good news: upon further clean up I have discovered remnants of a
second silver baca-baca clamp on the back of the blade.
Now the bad news: that means I'll now have to take the hilt off again and make a brand new silver baca-baca, attempting to match the other one.
Also the remains of a silver strap on the present baca-baca - not sure if it went up into the hilt or up the sides of the hilt like in the Datu Piang's picture.
It seems to be getting closer and closer to looking exactly like the one in the picture.
