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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 31st July 2025, 01:46 PM
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Posted By A. G. Maisey
This high relief contrast is not sought, it...

This high relief contrast is not sought, it happens unintentionally.

In the past hair was sometimes used to provide a pressure fit for the hilt. There are number of beliefs as to why, nothing is...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 31st July 2025, 02:20 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 356
Posted By A. G. Maisey
If a blade comes out of the cleaning bath with a...

If a blade comes out of the cleaning bath with a rough texture you clean it off with an abrasive, in Bali they mostly use wet sand followed by limestone powder, in Solo I think most people use wet...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 31st July 2025, 12:52 AM
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Views: 356
Posted By A. G. Maisey
A lot of people would call this pamor "Singkir" &...

A lot of people would call this pamor "Singkir" & immediately place it as Madura.

I am not able to be certain if working from photos, but I believe that in the hand I would not place this as...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 30th July 2025, 02:29 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 266
Posted By A. G. Maisey
Jeff, this keris never had a pendok, it had...

Jeff, this keris never had a pendok, it had veneer(Bali:-penabeng) glued to the front of the gandar (Bali:- penyejer). This veneer might have been a single strip of figured veneer, or it might have...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 25th July 2025, 09:50 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 10,604
Posted By A. G. Maisey
Thanks for those pics Adam, yes, the various...

Thanks for those pics Adam, yes, the various materials used are now quite clear, and you're dead right, it would have been a lot of work, but if one is a skilled worker in wood, such a job would not...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 25th July 2025, 03:04 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 4,476
Posted By A. G. Maisey
It might be a little bit difficult to get the...

It might be a little bit difficult to get the heat exactly where you want it with a gas stove, Sid. In Jawa I use a candle --- I use a candle in Oz too, if i run out of gas.

A candle flame is...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 25th July 2025, 12:17 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 10,604
Posted By A. G. Maisey
Adam, what I believe I can see at the bottom end...

Adam, what I believe I can see at the bottom end of that hilt is a fairly common repair for a cracked hilt, the hilt hole is enlarged, the hilt is compressed to close the cracks, the insert is put in...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 24th July 2025, 11:18 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 4,476
Posted By A. G. Maisey
Sid, if that hilt has been put on with Araldite...

Sid, if that hilt has been put on with Araldite or something similar it needs to get above 80C (176F) before it loses bond strength.

Gentle heat will do nothing at all.

I usually use a...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 23rd July 2025, 11:15 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 4,476
Posted By A. G. Maisey
I'm not so sure that this pamor is wos wutah ---...

I'm not so sure that this pamor is wos wutah --- or, as they refer to it in Bali "wusing wutah". There are a number of variations within the wos wutah classification, & this particular pamor that...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 23rd July 2025, 10:15 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 7,313
Posted By A. G. Maisey
When the keris gallery was opened it was all...

When the keris gallery was opened it was all about current keris art, current era keris & current era dress.

However, a couple of years ago a new gallery was opened, on the same floor as the first...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 22nd July 2025, 12:21 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 7,313
Posted By A. G. Maisey
Perhaps the person who named the "Parts of a...

Perhaps the person who named the "Parts of a Keris Blade" might consider a crash course in basic keris understandings?
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 21st July 2025, 03:03 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 7,313
Posted By A. G. Maisey
The previous display arrangement was much better...

The previous display arrangement was much better than the present one, there were many more keris presented in a correct viewing position, instead of laying down, this crazy idea of laying them down...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 13th July 2025, 01:29 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 10,604
Posted By A. G. Maisey
Adam, anything is possible. In so far as...

Adam, anything is possible.

In so far as societies where many, or perhaps most, of the population subscribe to the concept that we could perhaps refer to as the "magical world view", it can be...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 10th July 2025, 02:15 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 10,604
Posted By A. G. Maisey
I've seen exactly the same as your example Rob,...

I've seen exactly the same as your example Rob, but on a Bali keris, not Bugis, & I've seen that same selut style in horn as well as ebony.

The form of this wooden one echos the usual metal...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 9th July 2025, 11:28 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 10,604
Posted By A. G. Maisey
I've seen that form in metal Gustav, one of the...

I've seen that form in metal Gustav, one of the ones that I have seen, originally had a little cup & the turned stem had the same form as your wooden one, but that little cup had a big piece missing....
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 9th July 2025, 05:03 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 10,604
Posted By A. G. Maisey
Adam, I did not suggest that this was a repair of...

Adam, I did not suggest that this was a repair of damage caused by the over drilling of a tang hole, I am merely relating what I have seen in the past.

Something I have never seen is a hilt that...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 9th July 2025, 01:50 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 10,604
Posted By A. G. Maisey
Thanks Adam. Yes, I can see all the little...

Thanks Adam.

Yes, I can see all the little patches, I can also see a spot of some sort of filling agent. That fill is most likely to be a fill where somebody has drilled the tang hole too deep &...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 8th July 2025, 05:23 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 10,604
Posted By A. G. Maisey
Adam, I doubt that the hilt cup is original. ...

Adam, I doubt that the hilt cup is original.

I cannot see a glue joint, where is it?
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 3rd July 2025, 04:33 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 3,327
Posted By A. G. Maisey
Gustav, you have very nicely given a perfect...

Gustav, you have very nicely given a perfect example of something that I believe most of us understand:- it is very difficult, sometimes impossible to provide supportable comment on an object in the...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 2nd July 2025, 04:28 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 3,327
Posted By A. G. Maisey
Gustav, please see my post #12, this is what I...

Gustav, please see my post #12, this is what I wrote relevant to the kekandikan form:-

"Gustav, I do not know a Javanese wrongko form that has the same or similar form to a Balinese kekandikan.
...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 1st July 2025, 02:57 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 3,327
Posted By A. G. Maisey
Gustav, I would greatly appreciate it if you...

Gustav, I would greatly appreciate it if you would very carefully read my previous posts again. It would be rewarding if you would try to clearly understand what I have written, you might find that I...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 1st July 2025, 09:51 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 3,327
Posted By A. G. Maisey
Gustav, I do not know a Javanese wrongko form...

Gustav, I do not know a Javanese wrongko form that has the same or similar form to a Balinese kekandikan.

This is not to say that such a Javanese wrongko form has never existed, it is to say that...
Forum: Swap Forum 1st July 2025, 04:39 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 7,988
Posted By A. G. Maisey
Keris List 88

Catalogue 88 has now completed and has been removed from my site.
Forum: Keris Swap Forum 1st July 2025, 04:38 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 17,523
Posted By A. G. Maisey
Keris List 88

Catalogue 88 has now completed and has been removed from my site.
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 1st July 2025, 12:49 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 3,327
Posted By A. G. Maisey
Balinese keris hilts that have a selut-like...

Balinese keris hilts that have a selut-like fitting or a cup that encloses the lower end of the hilt are not uncommon, what is uncommon, to the point of not being known by a couple of very...
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