Proper Bali Grip?

[David]

Originally Posted by Rick

IMHO I think what these handles represent is the transition from the keris as weapon to the keris as status symbol.

With the fancier hilts i would tend to agree Rick, but it is just as difficult to use this grip with the simpler planar style hilts and the "hair" wrapped ones. Neither of these seem to hold the same status quality of, say, the jeweled Bayu hilts or other elaborately carved hilts. Yet they are still too big to use this grip and some of them (the ones i have at least) seem VERY weapon-ready.