Try this one for a change: all the way from Baguio, a badass hunter of indeterminate superhero league or whatsoever affiliation. Possibly he has a tribe, because in the store there are groups of them, but each of them could be operating solo.
This little hunter here is made of ironwood. If you'll notice, he's got the string of the bow all taut with minimal effort, the string even magically stretching without him touching it yet.
Anyway, this sculptural error can be forgiven as Edge was able to get Mr. Hunter for just a little over 500 Pesos. In Baguio, they sell the black wooden sculptures (which cost less because the wood is lighter), and the expensive brown ones made of ironwood. We saw a pair that costs PhP 3,500--but Edge is not really a fan of men with giant schlongs and giant-breasted women.
If you know how to haggle, you can really drive the price down, which is what we did to get this guy who otherwise would have probably cost PhP 800 to 900 elsewhere.
Incidentally, the salesladies will tell you it's expensive because ironwood, being ironwood, is hard to carve. As it turns out, ironwood is an umbrella term for woods all over the world that are, well... hard. In the Philippines, kamagong and mangkono are considered ironwood, the latter being the hardest variety in the country.
At Mines View Park (where we didn't find Mr. Hunter) I found a nice pair of arnis sticks made of kamagong, their weight very, very nice on my hands. Just PhP 200. But since I'm no longer in college and it's too late to take P.E. classes in arnis, and since I don't know, too, where I'm going to use them, I simply said Pass.
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