Solor stick sword for sharing & comment

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Sajen

To create a hamon is not easy and I am nearly sure that this blade wasn't forged by a local blacksmith from Solor.

I had the same feeling about my example.
I wonder where they were sourced from if not of local manufacture?

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by Rick

I had the same feeling about my example.
I wonder where they were sourced from if not of local manufacture?

A.G. Zonneveld write at the in up mentioned page about the stick swords from Flores which have a different blade shape : "Almost always these blades are imported from south-east Sulawesi, mostly from the Rumbia region, where swords of this type are called toa." But this blades are laminated so far I know.
Maybe Chinese blacksmithes?

Regards,
Detlef