Curious Iranun kampilan feature

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Originally Posted by kino

Interesting, similar to a mortise and tenon construction.
The “teeth” is dark wood, same type as the crosspiece? I like the contrasting colors.
Did you do the rattan wrap around the crossguard?
Great looking sword. Congrats.

I took a look at mine but none have the dentures.

I have this, don’t know why it was constructed in this manner.
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However I this manong from the Visayas that needs some of its teeth replaced.
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Thanks for the compliment sir! Your swords are amazing as usual. The cleared-out part where the hair holes should be is interesting; I suspect that was cleared out to give way to another attachment. Tenegre looks great and lifelike; if I'm not mistaken, that's the monkey pommel variant.

Almost forgot about the wood: the denture wood seems to be similar material to the guard; some kind of softwood, while the hilt+pommel material is bunti/banati.