Philippine Punal ?

tom hyle · 26th November 2005, 04:58 PM

Looks very nice; certainly better than it was; seemingly a "real" piece with use scars; nice to see it returned to proper status.
I don't see a temper line. Moros sometimes temper along (mostly on se swords) or across (as on kris sundang) if you follow. but I don't see what's up here. theoretically within the line the core steel would all be similarly hard, but another perspective (particularly with old hand made swords that have a thick spine; gunongs are often thin; which would alleviate much of this concern) is that the very core may not acheive proper heat exchange to fully harden (IMHO purposefully sometimes), and so on such blades, a native SE Asian will often regrind a broken point so that it goes to one edge, rather than central. I don't know if I'm clear enougjh, but I'm out of time, and this blade may be thin enough to obviate the concern...............just rambling.
Nice dagger. Nice job. Thanks for helping a blade.

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26th November 2005, 04:58 PM	#4
tom hyle Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Houston, TX, USA Posts: 1,254	Looks very nice; certainly better than it was; seemingly a "real" piece with use scars; nice to see it returned to proper status. I don't see a temper line. Moros sometimes temper along (mostly on se swords) or across (as on kris sundang) if you follow. but I don't see what's up here. theoretically within the line the core steel would all be similarly hard, but another perspective (particularly with old hand made swords that have a thick spine; gunongs are often thin; which would alleviate much of this concern) is that the very core may not acheive proper heat exchange to fully harden (IMHO purposefully sometimes), and so on such blades, a native SE Asian will often regrind a broken point so that it goes to one edge, rather than central. I don't know if I'm clear enougjh, but I'm out of time, and this blade may be thin enough to obviate the concern...............just rambling. Nice dagger. Nice job. Thanks for helping a blade.