Bali keris?

[ganjawulung]

Originally Posted by Ascalon

Bought this keris recently, but what is it exactly?
The hilt is painted.
Total length: 57cm
Regards
Emmanuel

The form of luks, IMO is well executed. Excellent. I like the form of luks of this keris -- many luks but not looks clumsy... But not the greneng part. From the form of the gandhik -- sirah cecak with kind of 'kruwingan' (a bit hollow) and also the form of sekar kacang part -- IMO this is not Maduran, but Balinese style.

In javanese, keris with many luks (more than 13 luks) is called as "kalawija" -- unordinary but still within pakem. Please compare with this Mataram style "kalawija" with 29 luks (Emmanuel's keris is with 27 luks) with dhapur of "Kalabendu"... Overall length of the blade is 36 cm without peksi, or 41 cm with peksi.

I apologize to you all to deal with this "show and tell" game. This is IMO one of the best way to make visually comparison in appreciating this keris world, if we don't have the real keris in our hand. Or is it useless?

Pls see Erik's thread too on his balinese 'kalawija'
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=8855
and this old thread on 'kalawija'
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...light=kalawija

GANJAWULUNG

[Gustav]

Ganjawulung,

The immense knowledge of people like you is the great and most welcome possibility for me to learn about keris and history. Thank you very much.

[Rick]

Originally Posted by ganjawulung

I apologize to you all to deal with this "show and tell" game. This is IMO one of the best way to make visually comparison in appreciating this keris world, if we don't have the real keris in our hand. Or is it useless? GANJAWULUNG

It would seem to me that this is really the only way to go about it in our cyber-world .

A picture, a thousand words, and all that ........