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Old 17th July 2017, 02:30 PM   #15
David
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Originally Posted by Johan van Zyl
I don't recall that I have read anything yet about strongly curving versus weakly curving luks. Or I might just have missed it...
As Alan has pointed out, this is dependent upon the classification of the keris and while i would agree that this keris is well executed i would personally avoid using the terms "strong vs. weak" to describe this feature since that seems to imply a "good/bad" aspect to the feature being assessed. I might suggest "deep vs. shallow" or something like that since i would not say that deep luks are "better" than shallow luks or that the maker's skills are necessarily any better on this keris because of the deep luks than the skills of a smith who has created a shallow luk keris.
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