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Old 27th January 2010, 04:15 AM   #1
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The newly made blades nowadays - mostly by Madurese people - are most often polished.
This is true, but from my experience they don't do it correctly and it is usually pretty easy to tell the difference.
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In my eyes the lots of "Lombok keris" on the market now is a dealers' concept same to the lots of Sumbawa keris.
I can understand your feeling on this, but i have seen enough keris blades that are obviously related to the Bali "family" of keris that just don't fit into the Bali "pakem" that i feel it is more than likely that there are indeed keris of Lombok origin that have their own small differences.
I certainly agree that the manner of dress can never assure the origin of a blade.
Are you suggesting that there was never any keris forging centers in Lombok or that those centers if they did exist were only in Balinese communities existing in Lombok?
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Old 27th January 2010, 04:46 AM   #2
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This is true, but from my experience they don't do it correctly and it is usually pretty easy to tell the difference.

I can understand your feeling on this, but i have seen enough keris blades that are obviously related to the Bali "family" of keris that just don't fit into the Bali "pakem" that i feel it is more than likely that there are indeed keris of Lombok origin that have their own small differences.
I certainly agree that the manner of dress can never assure the origin of a blade.
Are you suggesting that there was never any keris forging centers in Lombok or that those centers if they did exist were only in Balinese communities existing in Lombok?


"This is true, but from my experience they don't do it correctly and it is usually pretty easy to tell the difference."


I agree with you as it is also with many newly made ones from Balinese people as they are working with a flex now to make the greneng and do the polishing.


"Are you suggesting that there was never any keris forging centers in Lombok or that those centers if they did exist were only in Balinese communities existing in Lombok?"


This is my assumption mostly based on the arabic derivation of the Sasak, but I have no proof for it - just an assumption. For any further going explanations I would be thankful.
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