Thick knife frome Bali/Lombok

[David]

Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey

The big Bali knife is perhaps best described as a "perupak", but I think most Balinese people would simply call it a "tiuk", ie, a "knife", or maybe a "tiuk gedhe", a "big knife", perhaps even a "golok" ("golok" does exist in Balinese).

Hi Alan. I've been calling the knife i posted a "Balinese Golok" since that was how you described it when i acquired it from you. My question is, how is size an issue when applying these names? As you may recall, my example is rather massive, even though i don't believe my photos really show that very well without a reference point for scale. When i look back at Athanase's photos i believe the impression they left on me was that his knife was much larger than it actually is. But now that i am paying attention to the tape measure (with i assume is in cm) it appears Athanase's knife is only about 19cm. At first i thought it looked much larger. Mine in almost 30cm in length and 8cm in width. So i might have been more likely to call his knife "tiuk" given the size difference. But would that be valid reasoning when naming the knife?