Yes Michael, my post did move away from the theme.
The only reason I made that post was to show exactly what is used to harvest rice.
In every place I have ever visited in Indonesia, farmers use tools to harvest rice, and those tools look pretty much like what farmers in Europe, America and Australia used to use before harvesting became mechanised.
They do not use nicely forged and finished blades mounted in elegant scabbards with finely carved horn hilts, to harvest rice.
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