Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post

Green · 28th April 2015, 04:02 AM

Hi all;

I'm Malaysian but like the great majority of us we are quite ignorant about our own heritage particularly about Keris. I'm beginning to take an interest and have 6 keris in my collection now but very much a novice when it comes to finer details and knowledge about this fascinating weapon.

This forum helps me a lot in understanding aspects of keris but I see that it is more Indonesian centric, which is absolutely fine by me.

I'm planning to go and visit 'panday besi' in Kelantan , Malaysia next week and I don't want to look too ignorant

so I hope some of you can explain something about the following:-

1) the styles of blades associated with Malaysian keris that they referred to as a) Maleulla, b)pandai saras c) tok chu d) charita? e) others?. Some of these may also be Indonesian style but Im not sure.

2) Any tips to identify old and new blades?

Thank you very much and looking forward to your help.

28th April 2015, 04:02 AM	#1
Green Member Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Malaysia Posts: 307	Keris blade styles Hi all; I'm Malaysian but like the great majority of us we are quite ignorant about our own heritage particularly about Keris. I'm beginning to take an interest and have 6 keris in my collection now but very much a novice when it comes to finer details and knowledge about this fascinating weapon. This forum helps me a lot in understanding aspects of keris but I see that it is more Indonesian centric, which is absolutely fine by me. I'm planning to go and visit 'panday besi' in Kelantan , Malaysia next week and I don't want to look too ignorant so I hope some of you can explain something about the following:- 1) the styles of blades associated with Malaysian keris that they referred to as a) Maleulla, b)pandai saras c) tok chu d) charita? e) others?. Some of these may also be Indonesian style but Im not sure. 2) Any tips to identify old and new blades? Thank you very much and looking forward to your help.