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Jussi M. · 11th September 2010, 09:55 AM

Greetings all,

we see a repeating theme happening again and again here. That is the repetitive questioning that revolves around the do and do not´s of keris maintenance and restoration. Sometimes the provided answers are this, sometimes that, and sometimes something entirely different depending who are the persons active on the forum at the time these questions are asked and answered to. The end results of this is that we have contradicting information scattered in tens if not hundreds of different threads all over the place.

For someone new it is thus very difficult to form a well-rounded and well-informed overall picture of this "forest" because of the myriad of "leaves" blocking the view. This problem is accentuated by the fact that this is an international forum which members have different cultural backgrounds, interests, motives and skill in the language we use to communicate here.

So...

We have a sticky in the classics that addresses one part of the keris restoration and maintenance (Repatinating Keris Blades). It is a good start.

What we need in my opinion is thus a new sticky labeled as "Keris maintenance and restoration info-bank". Under it we should have similar threads to the "Repatinating Keris Blades", each addressing one area of keris restoration and maintenance. If we can get all the different views and proposed methods, each under its thread in which the given theme is throughly addressed with clearly stated pros and cons regarding the different methods in an objective manner... That would be great.

It would make things a lot easier for those who are new to the keris and also for the more experienced ones who would save both time and energy not having to address the same themes over and over again. These threads would also, in time, provide a valuable insight not only onto the wide scope of practices that the keris is subjected to but also to the ideologies behind these said practices.

I propose a method of copy-paste to get this going if the idea is welcomed. If not, use the search

Thanks,

J.

11th September 2010, 09:55 AM	#1
Jussi M. Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 235	A sticky on proper methodology is needed Greetings all, we see a repeating theme happening again and again here. That is the repetitive questioning that revolves around the do and do not´s of keris maintenance and restoration. Sometimes the provided answers are this, sometimes that, and sometimes something entirely different depending who are the persons active on the forum at the time these questions are asked and answered to. The end results of this is that we have contradicting information scattered in tens if not hundreds of different threads all over the place. For someone new it is thus very difficult to form a well-rounded and well-informed overall picture of this "forest" because of the myriad of "leaves" blocking the view. This problem is accentuated by the fact that this is an international forum which members have different cultural backgrounds, interests, motives and skill in the language we use to communicate here. So... We have a sticky in the classics that addresses one part of the keris restoration and maintenance (Repatinating Keris Blades). It is a good start. What we need in my opinion is thus a new sticky labeled as "Keris maintenance and restoration info-bank". Under it we should have similar threads to the "Repatinating Keris Blades", each addressing one area of keris restoration and maintenance. If we can get all the different views and proposed methods, each under its thread in which the given theme is throughly addressed with clearly stated pros and cons regarding the different methods in an objective manner... That would be great. It would make things a lot easier for those who are new to the keris and also for the more experienced ones who would save both time and energy not having to address the same themes over and over again. These threads would also, in time, provide a valuable insight not only onto the wide scope of practices that the keris is subjected to but also to the ideologies behind these said practices. I propose a method of copy-paste to get this going if the idea is welcomed. If not, use the search Thanks, J.