Hi every body

[Singo Barong]

Dear Moderator,

Thank you very much for allow me join this group.
hello every one, my name ridho (i love singo barong style, thats why i used it as my nick name :) ).
i knew keris incidentally, went i went travel to Nusa Tenggara Barat province,
some one offer me to "mahar" the majapahit keris (luk 7).this is my first keris and i loved it some much. an the learning process continue, especially when i met dana (wos wutah) and his uncle "romo" who have nice and rare keris, they made me understand how remarkable they are.
i have new keris, the owner said it was keris bethok tangguh majapahit, but i am not sure, because the dhapur singo barong luk 3, as far as know bethok is simple and straight keris. is it really bethok from majapahit :confused: ?.
so pleaseee every one help me with this matter :):):).


thank you, and nice to know you all.
ridho "Singo Barong"

[Rick]

Hi Ridho, welcome to the warung . :)
Close up pictures of the keris will be helpful .

[ferrylaki]

Welcome to the forum Ridho.
Let me introduce my self, my name is Ferry
from Jakarta Indonesia.

Could you profide close up pictures for us?

[Singo Barong]

Dear All,

first i like nto say thank you to rick and fery for your comment.
i have resized the pic, attached is the oiginal version.
could you zoom it? i hope you can see the the detail and recogniced the dhapur, ang other feature?.
ok guys i wait for your comments, thank you very much.


regards
ridho

[Newsteel]

Welcome Singo Barong,

This is one 'strange' keris. Looks to me a keris naga luk 3. You can see the naga figurine at the gandik. Safely you can call this keris naga (?). It has a thick and a short blade. Also having a metuk and 2 deep sogokan. These features can be found on a jalak buda keris.

Sorry, but I would not comment on the tangguh as I have my doubts. The hilt also not appropriate as the one used there (squatting human figurine) is meant for pedang Batak.

[PenangsangII]

I agree with Newsteel, very strange indeed. I guess the warangan is very thick (judging from the pics), so be careful with the blade.

The dapor has very close resemblance to what we, Malaysians call Naga kikik, or is it keris bima?

[Alam Shah]

Greetings all,
I agree with Newsteel on the hilt type.
As for figurine at the gandik, it looks more like Naga Siluman to me since the naga's body blends with the blade... as far as I can see from the reflective photos. :)

The blade looks fairly new to me. This is just my intrepetation, based on these pictures. I may be wrong. ;)

PenangsangII, I believe that Naga Kikik, resembles a 'dog-like'(wolf) figurine at the gandik area.

[PenangsangII]

Damn.....I still got it wrong :) ....Pak AlamShah, with so many naga dhapors, its very hard for me to tell the difference. Thanks for your correction.

[Singo Barong]

Dear All,

Thank you very much for your comments, i really appreciated that.

regards
ridho