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Originally Posted by kai
Yours is not carved ... rattan is from climbing palms
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Thank you for pointing this out; upon close examination of this shaft I can see that you are correct and that this is a natural formation.
Interestingly, I realized that I had two
budiaks with this soft of a shaft. Both use the wire reinforcement and both have suffered some splitting of the rattan around the tang of the blade.