Traditional furnace (Parang) of the Bidayuh in Semban, Sarawak

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This is a demonstration by the Bidayuh villagers of Semban (Sarawak) on the use of their traditional furnace. Though most of the blades they use today are bought from the nearby city, they still do re-tempering, shaping and small tool forging using this furnace.

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[wescobts]

Excellant video

[bandel4]

@wescobts Thank you!

[echanchuk]

Oh my God.... the enchanting "sampe Leto" music at the background really bring back the old memories. Used to see this kind of furnace during my childhood time, when accompanied my late father to visit the blacksmith to make a parang or two. The only difference is that the 'piston' of the orang ulu 'posan' was fitted to a spring like pole to ease the movement of the piston.

[bandel4]

@echanchuk Glad that you enjoyed the music. Any chance you have pictures that you can share with us?

[bcafotw]

Very interesting and informative !!! thank you for sharing,...JC

[bandel4]

@bcafotw thanks JC!

[hananokuni2580]

And those of us in modern civilization believe we have it all! They way these guys set up their forge makes me green with envy (><) Goes to show you that it doesn't take much (tooling) at all to get good results.

[echanchuk]

@bandel4 too bad that these kind of tools are hard to find nowadays. If I come across one, i would share the picture. I guess the Penans had the same tool too.