My new Palembang kris

[Jean]

Originally Posted by milandro

Thanks @Jean I am not yet convinced that I will buy another hilt and may decide to keep the things as they came to me.

Yeah, in your place I would just try to replace the selut (difficult to find outside Indonesia) or better fit the hilt inside it (inserting a wooden rod into the pesi hole, filling the void space between the hilt and selut with wood putty, and carefully removing the rod when the putty is almost dry). I did it successfully several times.