I'll be heading back to Sarawak once I finish university (this summer), to visit family and work for a while - so I'll take orders for parangs! It's generally easier to go to a cutlers/random-crap-shop and buy the cheap ones their - then rehandle it, as they're generally plastic. On another note, you normally carry a smaller, razor sharp knife in a small sheath strapped to your parang sheath - which deals with everything else you can't do with a parang.