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Old 14th August 2014, 02:54 AM   #7
Gavin Nugent
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Thanks Emanuel.

I do find this area of Kris, Sundang and Keris very interesting.

I am not smith but there are some very tricky methods used to obtain some very beautiful and amazing Gonjo that are often overlooked...some no matter how hard I look, I cannot fathom how they were made, equally so for the blades.

With regards to the initial image presented, visually, to me, this appears to be a good insight in to twistcore manufacture well before final forging, a thick non flattened twistcore cross section. Ric may be able to chime in here too.

Lets see what comes out of the Twistie collectors collections.

Last edited by SwordsAntiqueWeapons; 14th August 2014 at 08:56 AM. Reason: Second thoughts on the alignment of the Twistcore Gonjo
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