The aesthetic beauty of a patterned blade

[Gavin Nugent]

Originally Posted by RSWORD

Thanks for sharing some examples Gavin. I particularly like the Bugis blade with the fine horse tooth Hamon in addition to the central pattern. Superb!

Thanks Rick.

I do see how the Malay people and other Keris collectors refer to the pamor as shark teeth as the repeated pattern layering back to the centre looks like rows of shark teeth, where as the Chinese Horse tooth patterns seen to often lack this depth of rows.

Gavin