My new Keris

[William.m]

Hello everybody,

I have just came back york with a new keris and Japanese nco sword that I bought in one of the many antique shops.

While I am very pleased with my new keris it seems that somebody has put a pin through the handle in order to secure the blade. It is very annoying as it seems that the handle is on the wrong way around. So my question is firstly can you have keris with the handle alignment like mine and also were the handles and tang pinned together traditionally ?

Also I showed my first keris on this website a while ago and it was mentioned that the handle was very large. However it looks like the blade is also very large when I compare it to my new keris. The blade looks lighter than what it really is because I used a flash. Enjoy!