Parang By Daniel Boll

[Bryan Bondurant]

Daniel is a good friend and member of the forum with a very bad internet connection. He recently sent me these pictures and asked me if I could post them for him. Mostly he is a perfectionist at the grinder but he likes to forge knives for himself. This is his second Parang, the bold type is his own words regarding the design and what it is. I too have come to the same conclusion as he about the usefulness of the design compared to bolos, machetes, and the kukri but both of us tend to chop into bamboo and snakes, for both of these the Parang seems the most advantageous design.

 

 

Daniels Own Words,

 

.........heres my new parang. In earlier days i prefered a kukhri, but that changed. a parang is much more an allround tool than a kukhri, and nearly the same power of impact (even, at least i think, a little bit more).

 

 

Its a beautiful piece of stag, that i bought at the hunting show. blade length is 30 cm and the handle 14 cm. steel is 55 Si 7.some kind of spring steel.

 

 

Converted to inches its 11.8 on the blade and 5.5 on the handle giving it a overall length of 17.3 inches. The piece of 25mm round bar is gift he sent me from Germany, 100V1(1.2833) 1% carbon, 0.10% vanadium,

 

 

 

Daniel Jeremiah Boll

http://www.messerboll.com/

[blacklionforge]

byran omg bro HUGE PICS!!!!!! but well worth the wait....lovely blade your friend has crafted thanks so much for sharing it with us... btw man from the heart of darkness??/ i thought you where in thailand,not the congo!!! just joking man....long live king leopold!!! NOT!!!

[Mat Maresch]

Well Bryan, thanks for showing

This is a hell of a chopper, I am absolutely sure. And the stag is really nice!

I do love Daniels knives, they are one-of-a-kind, all of them.

 

 

The steel is W2 by the way ( I know cause I sent it ).

[Chuck C]

thats cool bet it will cut anything in front of it

[Ben Potter]

Nice work. I always like SE Asian blades.

[Bryan Bondurant]

I had to dig around but finally found these pictures of Daniels first Parang and the Python sheath he made for it. The picture of the Bladesmith is Daniel at his very simple forge made out of what the locals use for a barbecue grill and a hair dryer. It just goes to show you that beautiful work can be produced with simple tools, he is a very talented knife maker. I hope someday he gets his internet running good enough to start showing off some of his work here as he is making knives all day everyday, its the only thing he does as far as I know.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[MJDForge]

Those are very cool knives. I hesitate to call them that, really. Those are nice blades, though.