Mandau with twist core

[Maurice]

Originally Posted by VVV

This weekend I found a mandau with twist core together with two keris.
Do you think it's a reshaped captured blade or is it a one of a kind?

Michael

What a great attractive mandau!
Congratulations on this one Michael.
Never have seen something like it.
English North Borneo area?

I have the feeling the blade had been restyled and got narrower to get it fix in the handle a long, long time ago....(red oval).
I also believe to see some old sanding/polishing marks in the lowest twistcore row at that area of the "restyled" shoulder.(yellow oval).

But just a guess!
I really like it!

Kind Regards,
Maurice