Small ivory hilted gunong restore project

[russel]

Great work on a lovely little Gunong. Have/will you polish and etch the blade?

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by russel

Great work on a lovely little Gunong. Have/will you polish and etch the blade?

Thank you Russel,

Jose write me that he has polished and etched the blade but that it don't show any lamination.

Regards,
Detlef

[Ian]

Originally Posted by Sajen

Thank you Russel,

Jose write me that he has polished and etched the blade but that it don't show any lamination.

Regards,
Detlef

Detlef:

I have not found lamination to be a common feature for gunong. None of the ones I presently own have laminated blades. They do occur but seem to be fairly uncommon.

Ian

[Robert]

Hello Detlef, As usual Jose has done his magic and brought this back from the neglect it had been subject to and given it a new life as the beautiful weapon that it was originally meant to be. The only reason that I can think of for the woven silver band to have been left behind is that the original ferrule possibly was made from swassa and the band just did not have enough value to be bothered with at the time. A beautiful piece, my congratulations to both the owner and restorer.

Best,
Robert

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by Robert

Hello Detlef, As usual Jose has done his magic and brought this back from the neglect it had been subject to and given it a new life as the beautiful weapon that it was originally meant to be. The only reason that I can think of for the woven silver band to have been left behind is that the original ferrule possibly was made from swassa and the band just did not have enough value to be bothered with at the time. A beautiful piece, my congratulations to both the owner and restorer.

Best,
Robert

Thank you Robert,

your thoughts about the woven silver band could be correct. Still a little bit strange that was let the silver cover over the scabbard and this band.

Regards,
Detlef

[CharlesS]

Another nice job Jose...and a lovely piece!

[Battara]

Originally Posted by Robert

The only reason that I can think of for the woven silver band to have been left behind is that the original ferrule possibly was made from swassa and the band just did not have enough value to be bothered with at the time.
Best,
Robert

I agree, a great point Robert. Notice that the silver on the scabbard is intact, so only the swassa would have been valuable enough I suppose, more so (even at 9k gold) than regular sterling or coin silver.

This is the reason I suggested to Sajen that the hilt bands may have been swassa over copper or brass, and so went with the closest to this - rose gold covered brass.

And once again, thank you Robert, Charles, and the rest of you wonderful folks.

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by Ian

Detlef:

I have not found lamination to be a common feature for gunong. None of the ones I presently own have laminated blades. They do occur but seem to be fairly uncommon.

Ian

Hello Ian,

would say that it is not uncommon to find blades without lamination. I have now nine gunong in my collection, with the one in question I have two without lamination, five with lamination, by two I don't know exactly because I still need to polish and etch the blades.

Regards,
Detlef