My body has traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved

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:

Guro Buzz said...

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

steve-vh said...

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

Steve Perry said...

Nice toys!

That's thirteen waves on the keris, right?

steve-vh said...

Yes it is!

Mike 'Bwana' Blackgrave said...

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