Balinese Keris for comments
 

Hello,

From the same seller than the Tuban Kebo Lager Keris in balinese dress and pendok.

The blade is old ( but how much ? ) with Marak dapur but the dress is very rough in light wood painted to imitate timoho wood.
I think the wrongko dates from the 50s-60s.
The handle has been glued, that's why I haven't yet been able to change the Javanese mendak for one from bali.

Another interesting blade with some age. Though the greneng seem Balinese the other ricikan seem unusual to me, so perhaps this blade, like your other Bali dressed blade, has a different origin.
Different pakem are known to have subtle differences, but according this diagram i don't think this is Dhapur Marak. There is no odo-odo for one thing and Marak seems to have a single sogokan, which your blade does not. Also, if this is a Balinese blade i am not sure Javanese dhapur apply.
I am curious to see how others classify this keris.

Indeed I do not think that the Javanese classification can apply but I have no document on the Balinese Dapur.

I forgot to take into account the ada ada on the other hand my blade has no Sogokan as in the representation below.
I looked too fast. :(

I could be wrong, but i believe that mendak is an old East Jawa/Madura one. Could be a clue to the blade origin given the deep inward slant of the gandik. But again, others will probably have a better idea on this.
What is the length of this blade?

Yes the mendak is from East Jawa/Madura, by chance is not glued.

Blade length : 41,5cm

I'd be inclined to accept this blade as Bali, or Lombok, I don't think I could fit it into Jawa classification. It is not any sort of major work, just a simple "every man's" blade. We don't really expect major identifying indicators in low level work.

Mendak is Madura/East Jawa.


The hilt should come off pretty easy with a bit of heat & patience, this process has been covered several times here in the past.

It would probably restore reasonably well.