Cleaning and polishing my bali-keris
On july, 19th 2008 Semar posted a nice picture of his balikeris with Parasvati-hilt. In the replies various colors were mentioned of the
ivory: caramel and dark brown. Some months ago I've bought this bali patrem-keris and would very much like to know the following:
1 - on internet I found the following definition: QUOTE It is called patrem if the length of the keris, measured from the 'Ganja’ until the
point of the Keris, is as long as the length of one span of adult human footstep UNQUOTE. If this is the standard, which foot are we talking
about: my size 11 or anyone else's size? Can't find an inch- or cm-definition.
2 - Which person/god/demon is my hilt representing?
3 - Can't determine whether the hilt is ivory ore bone because of its color (and yes I did the needle test) and like to remove the brownish
color if that can be done at all.
4 - Like to clean/polish the pendok as well. Tried various methods (cloths, silverpolish as well as lemonjuice) but except for a very light
improvement it doesn't get me anywhere.
All your expertise will be very much appreciated, THANKS
Njo
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