Enquiry on keris motifs

Gustav · 21st April 2018, 06:27 AM

Alan - a question. In your paper you write about the first Luk:

"Similarly, the first wave counted is not a wave in the blade either; it is a slight undulation that
occurs on only one side of the blade. When the maker of the blade is forging it to shape he bends the
forging away from and then back towards the wadidang side of the blade to create the first true wave in
the blade:- a blade wave has two sides to it, a negative (concave) side, and a positive (convex) side. The
current convention used in counting blade waves ignores this fact and counts a slight undulation above
the gandhik as the first wave, and the straight section of blade at its point as the final wave."

As I understand it, it says, the first real bending occurs on the second Luk, on Wadidang side. So the first Luk would be shaped by carving?

Why the Adeg-like grain we see in this blade clearly bends away and then back to Gandhik side of the blade (between the blue lines in my picture), so the very first commonly counted Luk appears to be done by bending?

21st April 2018, 06:27 AM	#13
Gustav Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,273	Alan - a question. In your paper you write about the first Luk: "Similarly, the first wave counted is not a wave in the blade either; it is a slight undulation that occurs on only one side of the blade. When the maker of the blade is forging it to shape he bends the forging away from and then back towards the wadidang side of the blade to create the first true wave in the blade:- a blade wave has two sides to it, a negative (concave) side, and a positive (convex) side. The current convention used in counting blade waves ignores this fact and counts a slight undulation above the gandhik as the first wave, and the straight section of blade at its point as the final wave." As I understand it, it says, the first real bending occurs on the second Luk, on Wadidang side. So the first Luk would be shaped by carving? Why the Adeg-like grain we see in this blade clearly bends away and then back to Gandhik side of the blade (between the blue lines in my picture), so the very first commonly counted Luk appears to be done by bending?