Friday, November 7, 2008

New trainer toys

Finished some new trainers recently.









Another Barung for Mike Blackgrave's students (2 actually)




This is a surprise for Mike. A trainer based on blade blanks he sent to Mushtaq. This one has teak handles and feels REALLY good in the hand. This is off a Yuli Romo design




Had this one in the works for a long time, finally completed the zebra wood handles. The design is Mushtaq's





A Barong to be given as prizes at the Pacific Island tourney a few weeks ago. It looked like at the last minute we were going to have to give out IOU's and I didn't really want to do that so I spent every available minute for 4 days working on trainers.

Cole's one off fantasy design using leftover scraps. Somehow morphed into a pretty darn good Kuku Macan.

The assassin Barong. Gave this one away at the tournament too. I really liked this one. Small enough to fit up the sleeve ala this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN4UNKNsjjc

The handle was alot of work so I started the other barungs for time's sake.







5 comments:

  1. I thought Bill Bednarick was providing the prizes.................

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  2. Yeah, that was the plan. I don't really know what happened in the end.

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  3. Nice toys!

    That's thirteen waves on the keris, right?

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  4. The lads love the blades Steve..looking forward to more...salaams

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