My first kris :)

[David]

Originally Posted by migueldiaz

Is the number of waves in an authentic kris supposedly odd and not even, or perhaps that is not necessarily the case?

Because in Herbert Krieger's (1926) description of krisses found in the now-Smithsonian Institute, per Krieger's textual description of five krisses, in fact three out of five have even-numbered waves.

Krieger probably did not count correctly or did not take into account blade erosion that would make the kris appear to have one less wave.
As far as i know kris and keris always have an odd wave count.