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[Sajen]

Congrats for this nice 13 luk keris. Try to polish the wood with car polish, I have received this tip one day from Alan G. Maisey. After this use a good wood oil or antique wax.

Regards,

Detlef

[dbhmgb]

Originally Posted by Sajen

Congrats for this nice 13 luk keris. Try to polish the wood with car polish, I have received this tip one day from Alan G. Maisey. After this use a good wood oil or antique wax.

Regards,

Detlef

Thank you on many levels, Detlef! Pretty soon this will be a fine example - the pictures make it look pretty bad, but it is merely cosmetics.

[dbhmgb]

Well, here is this keris as of today...

[David]

Dan, the hilt is facing in the wrong direction in these latest photos. Spin it around 180º.
Nice job on the clean-up so far...

[Greybeard]

Hi Dan. Great results! Great blade -- I just love this type of luk! Congratulations on this fine piece!

[Sajen]

Hello Dan,

very nice clean up so far, the wood of the wrongko look very nice, what you use for cleaning? The new hilt you attach is wrong, the original one is matching, why you change it? The sheath type is branggah from Yogya so should use a Yogya hilt.

Regards,

Detlef

[Rick]

I agree with Detlef .
The hilt should be Jogja style .
Otherwise, nice ....

[David]

Originally Posted by Sajen

The new hilt you attach is wrong, the original one is matching, why you change it? The sheath type is branggah from Yogya so use a Yogya hilt.

Detlef is right. I was focussing on the clean-up and didn't notice this was a different hilt. This is a Surakarta style hilt and doesn't go with the rest of this ensemble. I would think that the hilt that came with this keris should clean up as well as the sheath did.