[Mickey the Finn]

Nice ukiran. I'd run the risk of being pleased with myself if I was able to produce a mendak like that. And I can't find fault with the warangka.
Too many times I've had the disconcerting experience of the wilah becoming jammed in the warangka. This most often results in a prolonged struggle, trying to ascertain the precise "sticking point", tapping here and there, various undignified contortions, sweating, fretting about peeling pamor, muttered obscenities, cursing, and when everything comes to naught: blasphemies shouted from the very back of my throat. Now, unless the keris easily and effortlessly seats itself all the way in, I prefer to have the wilah sit a bit proud. I dunno if that's analogous to trying to wear pants too small in the waist... No...obviously, it's like trying to wear a kain panjang without enough width. I've yet to resort to the bench vise with jaw liners.