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Originally Posted by BluErf
In normal-sized kerises, kapit construction could have been used to re-use the remnants of an old blade (or to repair it). In the cases of these keris panjang, I'm not quite sure really... Maybe has something to do with the length of the blade such that it is easier to add the sor-soran area as a separate chunk of metal. I really don't know.
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Anyway, I am very thankful that you post your both panjang since this are the first other examples I see and I never know before that this is sometimes the case.
Regards,
Detlef