METEORIC PATREM MKII

[lemmythesmith]

Hi Michel, I made the pendok in two pieces-the join is made in the same plane as the edge of the blade. I made a former to bend the brass over which you can clamp the metal to with “G” clamps and then tap it into shape. You can use a hardwood mallet to do this, very few hammermarks. The pendok bottom can be tapped to shape over the ball pein of a small hammer. The trick to working brass/copper is to keep the metal as soft as possible by annealing (heat to red hot and quench in water) the two pieces were then filed and sanded so that there was little or no daylight visible when put together, tied with wire, fluxed and soldered with silver solder.
Welding the multiple pieces of iron together was done in several stages, the gun barrels were filled with other irons and flattened and welded, other pieces were made into “tubes” and again filled and welded. The same thing was done with the meteorites, using the Campo Del Cielo as the tube (it’s the cheapest!!) Alternate six iron with five meteoric bars and away you go!!
The ganga widens away from the gandik, the line I engraved forms a right angle with the pesi.
Both wrongko and ukiran are buffalo horn, wrongko is in one piece but was cut out of the horn along it’s length so there are a few lighter colours on the ends from the young horn in the middle. I’ll pm you a link to the website, the horn is very reasonable and it’s nice to work-don’t get it too hot ‘cos it burns!! (and stinks)
Hi Alan-I made the pendok in question before I learnt of the method of soldering it together at the front! Might be a little easier-only one joint instead of two and less chance of any movement whilst soldering. Tuban was the tangguhh I was attempting to imitate with the gongo style, so maybe I got close if it’s recognisable as Tuban!

[Rick]

Really, really nice work Lemmy .
I'm honored to have seen it .

[A. G. Maisey]

Tuban gonjos have a rather rounded sirah cecak, and the sides of the gonjo after the pesi run straight, without a curve (sebit ron), the buntut urang gives the impression of having been cut off short, so it does really come to a sharp point. This is looking down onto the top of the gonjo.

A Tuban Mataram gonjo is wider at the wadidang---the curved part of the blade opposite the gandik---than at the gandik end, giving an impression of declining towards the point. This is what your gonjo looks like in the image I can see. It might be different if the pic was taken at precisely 90 degrees.

The body of a Tuban blade is rather ovoid.

Your blade looks a bit Tubanish, but the blumbangan is too long for Tuban.

In any case, from what I can see in the pics, its a real good job, especially for somebody who has never been taught the rules of laying out a blade. Real good.

[Jussi M.]

I must bump this thread as this keris is so beautiful!

I really like the sorsoran area and the overall look

Best,

J

[lemmythesmith]

Hi Jussi, just remembered I had taken some "in-work" photos of this patrem-usually I get caught up in the making and forget. Hope these are of interest!