Burmese Dha & Javanese Badik

[kai]

Hello Mark,

I have never heard of this type of knife.

If you're seriously into Indonesian blades, you need to get Albert van Zonneveld's book.

From the link below better pictures can be seen.

Good catch - it's rare to get not fully appraised stuff from Artzi...

what whoud the normal dressing for the sekin be?

Not too different - how's the fit of the scabbard? (Could be more slender/graceful.)

The traditional sekin hilt looks more like those rencong hilts without L-shaped bend (i.e. hulu puntung) and, especially, the somewhat intermediate hulu dandan. Although the sekin blade does not have that forged stem-ring, I think there could be a relationship between these weapons. However, the rencong hilts are all curved towards the back of the blade whereas the sekin hilt (apparently representing a very stylised bird's head) curves towards the edge similar as with a sewar.

Regards,
Kai