On the good ones I'd expect the whole wood base of the scabbard to be covered in silver.
In this case, it may have been gold to match the hilt. The gold or silver might well have been plain if typical of the genre.
I don't think it would have been just wood.
If the hilt is wood than I think it's likely to be from somewhere other than Lombok, where they really do seem to like their hilts to be buffalo horn.
Of course, I have seen the occasional sword a with wood hilt from Lombok, but not these klewangs. They're generally horn.
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