The intersection of the handle and blade including a section of the end of the reeree have been finished with fringed lengths of ira. Both have been bound off with a coil of the nimwaerere (cordage of human hair and coconut sennit fibres). The same style of cordage has been used to lash and secure the noko (coconut midrib) and wii ni bakoa (sharks teeth) to the edges of the blade. Small circular perforations have been drilled through the centre of each wii ni bakoa for threading the nimwaerere. Wii ni bakoa has been continuously inlayed along the noko towards the pointed end of the reeree.