Keris blade styles

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Detlef;

Many thanks Detlef for the links showing different shapes of pandai saras, carita and malela.

What I hope to understand clearly is how one can differentiate between the different blade styles and each style's characteristics and salient features.

The reason I ask is because some blades that I see named as Malela look (to my untrained eyes) very much the same as Charita or tok chu not much different to Pandai saras etc. and don't know which style is superior if any.

Someone mentioned (not in this forum) the original tok chu lacks the elephant trunk on the blade although I've seen examples of blades referred to as Tok Chu with the elephant trunk present.

And thanks Gustav for the suggestion. I'll go through the old posts bit by bit and learn from there.