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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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jagabuwana
![]() That's a lovely piece! I hope I'm not derailing where you intended your post to go David, but a couple of questions question to all: - what is the name of the binding or thread wrap that covers the... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 55
Views: 4,360
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jagabuwana
![]() Should there be any representatives of Kasultanan Ngayogyakarta among us, I look forward to dawn rapier duel in the Warung Kopi parking lot. :D |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 55
Views: 4,360
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jagabuwana
![]() I've not heard of this dhapur but if it does what it describes on the label, maybe it should be renamed to sering goyang. |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,134
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jagabuwana
![]() Thank you everyone Jean - thanks for sharing that. Now I am curious as to whether this would work without the salt and/or the starchy water. Alan - yes that was my experience too. The staining... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,134
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jagabuwana
![]() This post is to show the results of staining using a sulphur, salt and rice water slurry on a keris lurus Bugis. I had attempted this in 2018, the year I acquired it, though I abandoned mission... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 35
Views: 2,009
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jagabuwana
![]() With regards to the meaning of the eyelets and just about anything else to do with features, knowledge and beliefs on Sundanese bladed objects, something to consider is that they were not as... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 6
Views: 995
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jagabuwana
![]() Yeah I see your point. I can certainly think of some other fields where invented terminology doesn't help anyone to get closer to understanding the subject at hand. Corporatese, anyone? |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 6
Views: 995
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jagabuwana
![]() Thank you, Alan. I looked with a bit more detail to the other kerises in the listing. There are no photos taken at an angle where I could determine the shape of the sirah cecak. Although with the... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 6
Views: 995
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jagabuwana
![]() I've seen some listings online which describe the ganja as being "mbatok mengkureb". I've not seen these words to describe a ganja before. What are the characteristics of a ganja mbatok mengkureb? |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 55
Views: 4,360
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jagabuwana
![]() Welcome maximummason! With regards to David's suggestion about cleaning and staining, you may find these threads useful:... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,483
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jagabuwana
![]() The one in Sajen's link is I believe a Surakarta dress. If you are to keep the current hulu, which is Jogja, I think it would look best paired with a Jogja wrongko. But that's very much a personal... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,483
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jagabuwana
![]() Happy New Year to you too, Shayde. Nice find with this blade. If you intend to clean it, I'd really like to see the result afterwards. Do you intend on getting a Jogja wrongko to match? |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Views: 1,285
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 56
Views: 12,805
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jagabuwana
![]() I didn't intend to debate or disprove you, but to add more information and perspective that I found interesting and satisfying, with the hope that others might too. |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 56
Views: 12,805
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jagabuwana
![]() Nuhun, Amuk Murugul. I do agree that to understand something, the language must also be understood. So I'm inclined to go further. The reason I asked the question about the connection between Sunda... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Views: 7,775
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 7
Views: 4,991
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jagabuwana
![]() I can't imagine the keris being so significant to Fidel that he would have reenacted it. I doubt its veracity still , but at least the keris is the same. I'm inclined to lean towards Bali too,... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 7
Views: 4,991
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jagabuwana
![]() Sometime in 1960, Sukarno went to Havana and met with Fidel Castro. It seems that he presented him with a keris as a gift. Given Sukarno's sympathy towards anti-colonial, anti-imperialist causes and... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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jagabuwana
![]() How interesting. I enjoyed that alot, thanks for sharing. I've always known lodeh to contain kemiri (candlenut). Gives it that nice slight but pleasing bitter nuttiness. Okay quick - someone ask a... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 4
Views: 3,455
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jagabuwana
![]() Pamor uler lulut came to mind for me. I'll await for more learned folk here to weigh in :) |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 6
Views: 3,283
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jagabuwana
![]() in the case of pamor tangkis, is the execution a matter of making two pattern-welded laminations, and then welding the two laminations together? |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 29
Views: 10,782
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jagabuwana
![]() That's stunning, Paul. I learned a lot in this thread. Had I not known any better I would have thought I was looking at some kind of keris dhapur sepang. |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 18
Views: 4,791
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jagabuwana
![]() Yes I like that mendak as well and am interested to know the material used. The dhapur Mangkurat Mangkunagara is indeed found in the dhapur keris Keraton Surakarta manuscript. |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 16
Views: 3,661
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