information about this prabot, please

[sjors]

Having spots all over your blade, did you use chemical liquid to work (clean) on it? What kind of chemicals, please?

Dear Ganjawulung,
In real there are no spots like that on the picture, I think it's some kind of reflextion of the oil I used.
I didn't use any chemical liquid, just vinegar after derusting it for some time in a electrolithic way because of the heavy rust ( it doesn't "eat" material, just rust), the same way I do with Archeological findings (another hobby of mine).
I included a "before and after"picture.

[ganjawulung]

Originally Posted by sjors

I didn't use any chemical liquid, just vinegar after derusting it for some time in a electrolithic way because of the heavy rust ( it doesn't "eat" material, just rust), the same way I do with Archeological findings (another hobby of mine).

Good work, Sjors. Thanks to the different nature I am living, usually I clean such rusty blade in a very easy way. Just sink the blade with "coconut water" overnight or two -- not too long, then just brush it softly with very soft "tooth brush" and lime-juice mixed with a bit cream soap. Did you clean the hilt in the same way as the blade. I mean with vinegar too? (hilt in the later pics, is cleaner than the first)

[sjors]

Dear Ganjawulung,

Next time I'm sure I wil try your way of cleaning.
I didn't clean the hilt with vinegar, I just used water and some mild soap but it was (like its dress) so dirty, you wouldn't believe it...(in real it's a little bit darker than at the picture but I left it that way so you could have a better look at the keris itself)
At the same time I bought this keris I bought another Solo keris, 11 luk, from the same person, and it was also that dirty, I wonder what happend to those kerisses.
The problem is that, due our history, there are a lot of kerisses in the Netherlands but also a lot are in a bad shape, so I like to buy a pile of rust to reform it to something like a "normal" keris, it gives me the feeling I've saved something.

[sjors]

And during cleaning I found out that he mendak was silver in stead of copper

[ganjawulung]

Originally Posted by sjors

Next time I'm sure I wil try your way of cleaning.

Many ways of cleaning such rusty blade. "Coconut water" is only one among tens of ways of cleaning keris blade. But one must be careful too, because coconut water is quite corrosive, although in many occasion you may look people (in Indonesia) drinking coconut water like drinking coca cola... Just please, don't sink your keris blade too long in coconut water. (And after more than two days, usually the coconut water gets stinky and more corrosive...)