Personally i find discussion on this particular forum about the origins of the kastane hilt not only a great waste of time, but completely off topic for this forum.
Again, somewhat nicely carved, but completely non-traditional art carvings that have nothing to do with Balinese keris culture. If this is what you like to collect Alexish, so be it. But i personally do not see any further discussion of these hilts at all pertinent to what we do here on the Keris Warung Kopi forum.
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