Product Description
“Tool for shaving-off” inTagalog is “panabas” or “pantabas”. Traditionally used as an agricultural tool by the 19th century Moro tribes of Mindanao, the Panabas is a single-edged sword and is shaped like a long-handled Kukri. Its overall length could range from 2-4 feet. It is efficient at cutting in half; in fact it had a place in the battlefields against invaders. The Panabas can be used either as a single-handed or double-handed implement.
Paul Southren – :
From the Newsletter update of Paul Southren’s Swordbuyersguide.com January 17, 2017
“…Only one more review from the trip to go, and it will be a total change of pace and genre – the BCI (Blade Culture International) ‘Panabas’ – a Filipino blade that proved amazingly durable and frighteningly effective..
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