Mate, Oz is truly the west----west of Fiji, west of Hawaii, west of all the Americas---even west of Africa .You can't go any further west than the Land of Oz.
The Surakarta makers blades I put up in the site are not for sale. I only put them up for info, so that students of the keris can see what has been produced in the current era by this school. I did not put up everything I have, just sufficient for an example.
Skint is a normal condition with all collectors. Doesn't matter whether its paper weights, Lamborghinis, or keris. No collector ever prizes money above things, which means we're nearly all of us broke, nearly all the time.
take it easy,
alan.
PS--not an empu.
Pauzan doesn't like to called an empu because of his religious beliefs; I don't like to be called an empu because I'm not. Call me a pandai keris, or a keris maker.Not an empu. Empu Suparman Supowijaya was an empu---I'm not.---alan.
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