Origin of blade???

[khalifah muda]

Got this blade as it is. The blade is about 15 inches long & pesi is 6cm / 2.36inches. Care for your inputs & discussion.

[A. G. Maisey]

Blade cross-section is characteristic of Bugis style blades.

No idea of geographic point of origin.

[BluErf]

The 2 times I saw keris blades with 'awkward' luk, especially the last luk (displaced a bit too much to the right), was with 2 pattani keris blades. However, the hexagonal cross-section are also quite telling of a Bugis influence. But we hardly see 'true-blue' bugis blades with waves as pronounced as this. By true-blue, I'm referring to blades produced by the Bugis people, and not produced by people in areas under Bugis influence. So this could be a peninsula blade, I reckon.

[khalifah muda]

Thanks for the input Alan & Kai Wee, I did felt it has a strong bugis influence too. But the exact origin i thought it might be on the Sumatran side, Minang? Or it could be Riau too? Will update the pics on the cleansed blade soon.

The 2 times I saw keris blades with 'awkward' luk, especially the last luk (displaced a bit too much to the right), was with 2 pattani keris blades. However, the hexagonal cross-section are also quite telling of a Bugis influence. But we hardly see 'true-blue' bugis blades with waves as pronounced as this. By true-blue, I'm referring to blades produced by the Bugis people, and not produced by people in areas under Bugis influence. So this could be a peninsula blade, I reckon.

[khalifah muda]

Some pics showing the cleansed blade.

[khalifah muda]

Some more pics.