Thanks for the pics Falcon!
The bolo looks exactly like some of my larger ones, Water Buffalo Horn too! Yup I think that's quite close to the bolos I like so much. I looked at the JEST link. Very organized compared to our training group at Clark. It may be the same group of instructors or their descendants teaching the course. I remember thinking I would be very hungry and very uncomfortable during the four days of our training. Our instructors carried nothing but these bolos and a canteen. Our food was adequate and our shelters were quite comfortable and dry even in a rainforest downpour. All the cooking, fire building, shelter building, trap setting, game butchering etc were performed with the bolo and nothing else. One of the instructors would find a small rock and use his bolo as a percussion instrument for signaling over great distances. It made a very distinctive pinging sound that was easy to distinguish from natural jungle sounds.
You are lucky to have the bolo and the BUSSE. I would like to see a side by side comparison of the cutting ability of each knife.
Thanks,
Kix