Is it a good keris ?

[Marius66]

Thank you very much for your response
and I am really sorry for rushing you,
I thought there were many moderators for manage the site access.
it's just frustrating to wait several hours.
I live now in Germany.
Thank you very much for all the precious informations !!!
Best regards

[Rick]

Patience is a virtue, Marius.
Both of your moderators in the Warung live on the East Coast of America.

[Marius66]

Well
I sent a complete message for apologise 12h ago
Muzzled again 😅

[David]

Originally Posted by Marius66

Thank you very much for your response
and I am really sorry for rushing you,
I thought there were many moderators for manage the site access.
it's just frustrating to wait several hours.
I live now in Germany.
Thank you very much for all the precious informations !!!
Best regards

Marius, there are just 2 moderators for the Keris Forum, Rick and myself.
As Rick has pointed out, we both live in eastern North American, so our time zones are 5 to 6 hours apart. Besides that we are just two people who have full lives to lead outside the completely volunteer position of forum moderator. So i am afraid if you can't be patient your frustrations will only worsen. Still i know that both Rick and i check the moderation queue at least once a day and often more than that. My suggestion is to stay calm, keep posting, be patient and try not to annoy the moderators and in short order you will probably be graduated beyond your current moderated status and will be able to post directly.

[David]

As has been already pointed out, this is a fairly decent Balinese keris blade, but it is housed in dress that is aimed directly at Western tourism. You can count yourself fortunate that such a decent blade is in this dress, because usually they are occupied by old and worn out poor quality keris or even worse, the dreaded stock removal garbage with the fake batik pamor.
As Alan mentioned, while it would be nice to give this keris proper dress, as no self-respecting Balinese man wear such an ensemble in public, the could be difficult from you position living in Germany. And as also pointed out, some people do find this tourist dress to be somewhat collectable and this is a very classic representation of that this form. Yes, it is true that your hilt is carved better than many of these tourist models are, but it is still clearly in that category. If this were mine i would wash/scrub the blade well in soapy water, dry it completely and then oil it well. I would also use some wood oil on the dress and call it a day. i would image that you probably got a decent deal on this because of the style of dress.

[milandro]

As others have said, I see this king of sarong and this kind of hilt very often . They are carved for the tourist market

As other have said too, at least you were very lucky to get what appears to be a nice , old, blade. I see all too often blades that are simply cut out pieces of iron with a some painted motief with only the suggestion of a pamor.

Your blade is forged and if properly treated will reveal some sort of pamor obtained in the forge and not with paint.

As for redressing it , I have had some succes with a German dealer on Bali, he can find a sarong maker who can fashion a dress and a hilt for this kris.

It is not easy but you neet to take accurate and extensive pictures of the kris with measurements, then , after some time, he will ship you the sarong. The hilt is not a problem.


I have done this twice and the second time I was for a Bali Kris. The fitting was a little too tight but with the help of a local dealer(who is also a woodworker) with few minutes of work with a Dremel , the fitting is now perfect



see how it came out here


http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=29008

[Marius66]

Really nice !!
Thank you Milandro !!!

[Sajen]

Hello Marius,

When you plan to give the blade a new scabbard I would use for this blade one of the two shown examples.

BTW, sometimes you have to wait much longer than a few hours for a comment!

Regards,
Detlef

[Marius66]

Here are some other photos I took of the keris,
I cleaned the blade a little with 1000 grain with WD40 (surely there's something better to do?) the Mendak, I think that's its name, doesn't look bad I think ??
What do you think ?