touching up a blade with gun blue pen

[milandro]

I am very much aware of the way people over there look at these things and , in fact , you may remember my quote in another thread

Originally Posted by milandro

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I understand that a western blacksmith would chuck the blade BUT an Indonesian empuh probably, beside not throwing away some work done, he probably thinks that the process is only partly in his hands and that he is rather the instruments of a superior being that through him creates the blade and maks it inhabited by a spirit and gives the blade its properties....
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[A. G. Maisey]

Milandro, there is usually a wide gap between what a craftsman might think, and what the general public might think.

In the case of the crafts associated with the keris, this gap seems to me to be inordinately wide.

[David]

Originally Posted by milandro

I am very much aware of the way people over there look at these things and , in fact , you may remember my quote in another thread

Nope, i'm afraid i don't remember that quote from another thread, but i am glad you are aware of this.

[David]

This keris has gone back up for sale so i am closing this thread for the time being.