Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
18th September 2024, 12:35 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
16th September 2024, 11:20 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
14th September 2024, 10:33 PM
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The dress is certainly Jogja, I'm away from my...
The dress is certainly Jogja, I'm away from my references at the moment so I cannot give the wanda of the hilt.
The wood in the wrongko is definitely not burl teak (jati gembol). I cannot ID it...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
12th September 2024, 02:11 AM
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In the Javanese world view more is better.
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In the Javanese world view more is better.
For instance, religion, indigenous Javanese religious belief systems involve animism and ancestor worship, but then other religions came along ---...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
11th September 2024, 10:29 PM
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Dhapur is Brojol.
The pamor is Dwi Warna,...
Dhapur is Brojol.
The pamor is Dwi Warna, ie, "two colours", understood as two types. One blade face is Bendho Sagodo , the other blade face is Udan Mas. There are several variations of these...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
11th September 2024, 08:19 AM
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Here is a link:-
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Here is a link:-
http://www.vikingsword.com/ethsword/maisey/index.html
It needs a re-write, there are a few things where my knowledge has advanced a bit since it was published. I'll do a...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
10th September 2024, 10:39 PM
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My Gardner is a 1973 reprint.
It has been...
My Gardner is a 1973 reprint.
It has been popular for a long time.
Personally, I reckon its worth a read, there little interesting snippets in it like:-
"--- the lawi ayam is small hooked...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
7th September 2024, 10:41 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
4th September 2024, 02:11 PM
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Yes, form is correct, but sometimes they will...
Yes, form is correct, but sometimes they will have a gonjo, sometimes the gonjo might be iras, ie, just marked on the blade, not fitted separately.
The ones with no gonjo have sometimes had a...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
3rd September 2024, 09:37 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
3rd September 2024, 12:38 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
2nd September 2024, 11:38 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
2nd September 2024, 09:49 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
2nd September 2024, 08:35 AM
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This is what I wrote:---
"--- I believe that...
This is what I wrote:---
"--- I believe that we are looking at an East Javanese keris, or possibly Madurese. I had that thought that it might be current era, but I am now not so sure.
To form...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
2nd September 2024, 07:46 AM
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I once asked a very good friend of mine who was...
I once asked a very good friend of mine who was Javanese and a devout Muslim if he could explain Lam Alif to me. He told me that to even get a beginning of understanding I would need to spend seven...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
1st September 2024, 01:24 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
1st September 2024, 01:11 PM
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There are a number of ways that the gonjo of a...
There are a number of ways that the gonjo of a keris is kept in place, one of those ways is to cut a tiny keyway into the gonjo hole, and drive a pin home into that keyway to hold the gonjo in place....
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
30th August 2024, 09:44 PM
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Once upon a time it might have been possible to...
Once upon a time it might have been possible to obtain old and good keris at reasonable prices in Holland and also in adjacent countries. I have not seen any evidence of this in a very long time, and...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
29th August 2024, 03:58 AM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
28th August 2024, 10:58 PM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
28th August 2024, 06:31 AM
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Hugh, I was buying keris from Indonesia long...
Hugh, I was buying keris from Indonesia long before the keris revival of the 1970's began. It began in Central Jawa and the Boys From Madura did not join the modern market until the early 1980's.
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
28th August 2024, 03:29 AM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
27th August 2024, 10:23 PM
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Not that I can think of.
There are some...
Not that I can think of.
There are some features that might be seen more often in one classification (tangguh) of a keris than in others, and in some cases a tangguh can be related to a time...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th August 2024, 09:40 PM
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