Alan, it was my fault in using the language, excuse me please. I mentioned not Gandhik but the part of Gonjo immediately under the Gandhik. The flow of Gandhik seems interrupted to me, there is this step between Gandhik and Gonjo.
It seems to me, there is just to much material left on Gonjo at this place, and I am thinking about a possibility, if there was not an intention to carve these small notches, which are there on many similar Balinese keris. For this there would be a need for more material left.
These notches are interesting me a lot. They are visible on many high quality Javanese blades from old european collections (17. cent.) and seem to disappear somewhere around 1700 (?) in Java. Yet they continued to appear on Bali/Lombok keris, some Madura and East Java keris (?), and (very interesting) as characteristic feature on Keris Pandai Saras from Peninsula.
They are looking like an idea coming from architecture to me, a bit like basement segmentation on Javanese Candi.
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