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The beautiful parang gift from Danny Since my trip to Sarawak, I have fallen in love with parangs from Sarawak. Old school it may be but these blades of the Orang Ulu are amazingly functional and tried tested. I have a few parang Ilang but recent pieces given to me as gifts by Danny Voon [...] A parang handle making project This is a small parang ‘gift’ project for a friend. I will have to make the wooden handle for it, as well as a sheath. The blade was purchased from the Bidor parang maker some time back. A standard blade sold everywhere. I decided to do this project for two [...] I guess the Parang makers have gone upscale in terms of operations I have always heard about the Bidor Parang. One local jungle survival instructor I know swears by the Parangs from Bidor. So, on an early morning drive back to Kuala Lumpur from Kedah, I decided to take a detour off the main highway, [...] This particular hard ware shop in Temerloh is probably one shop I wouldn’t mind visiting again. Aside from having all the stuff you’d ever expect for a hardware shop, Kedai Nam Kee is well stocked with parangs of all shapes and sizes plus other little things that would make it an ideal one stop center [...] A month back, my friend John visited the interior of Sarawak in the region of Baram and came back with him several ‘souvenirs’ to share with. He was kind enough to give me a bag of Baram rice. Baram rice is well known as a fragrant rice, farmed organically. The other item John brought back was [...] |
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