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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 19th February 2020, 12:42 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 5,755
Posted By Mickey the Finn
Thank you, Messrs. G and Maisey! (broad, "hockey...

Thank you, Messrs. G and Maisey! (broad, "hockey player" grin, displaying absence of left maxillary incisor, the result of a freak accident involving a water heater, a slice of pizza, and screaming...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 19th February 2020, 11:55 AM
Replies: 43
Views: 48,424
Posted By Mickey the Finn
Re: Angkup

@ rasdan :This is quite interesting, and enlightening. Outside and inside calipers. I adjusted a couple to more secure positions upon the wood screws on which they hung on the wall at work just this...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 17th February 2020, 04:51 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 5,438
Posted By Mickey the Finn
Re: Tombak stuck in tutup.

The tombak will not come out. I've tried tapping the tutup whilst pulling on the landeyan, removing the landeyan and pulling on pesi whilst tapping less gently on the tutup, but it won't budge. The...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 17th February 2020, 04:32 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 5,755
Posted By Mickey the Finn
Re: Keris stuck in warangka.

The wilah will not come out. I've tried tapping the warangka whilst pulling on the ukiran, removing the ukiran and pulling on pesi whilst tapping less gently on the warangka, but it won't budge. At...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 27th January 2020, 10:46 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 13,030
Posted By Mickey the Finn
Re: Fire damaged ukiran?

It looks like it has perhaps suffered some sort of damage, perhaps by fire? I have a very similar one, which is definitely scorched and blackened at the end (opposite where the pesi goes in). I...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 27th January 2020, 10:20 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 12,867
Posted By Mickey the Finn
Re: This kid at work, and his new GMC truck.

There's a young man at my work, about 19 years old. He used to drive a Honda, a souped up little Civic or something. A friend of his told him that he (my co-worker) should buy a truck because he...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 27th January 2020, 05:25 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 42,264
Posted By Mickey the Finn
Re: Cleaning and restoration info.

Provided one thinks of it as a mindless automaton like a "toyol/tuyul", with essentially identical limitations to it's performance, the Search function in the Menu Bar above can be useful. Type in a...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 1st December 2019, 04:44 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 49,523
Posted By Mickey the Finn
Two afternoons ago, as I was curled up under my...

Two afternoons ago, as I was curled up under my blanket in a foetal position, I decided that if I ever took up the activity commonly referred to as "tagging", (not exactly the same as "graffiti", but...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 1st December 2019, 03:23 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 22,636
Posted By Mickey the Finn
"Bottle brushes", "tube brushes", "pipe brushes",...

"Bottle brushes", "tube brushes", "pipe brushes", "bore brushes" and "pipe fitting brushes" are available in assorted diameters, often sold as a set containing several brushes varying in diameter...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 1st December 2019, 12:46 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 8,660
Posted By Mickey the Finn
I've searched for the words "necromancy" and...

I've searched for the words "necromancy" and "resurrection" in the Keris Warung Kopi and did not find the results I thought I might, so I feel no misgivings about posting a reply to this post,...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 18th November 2019, 01:00 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 14,376
Posted By Mickey the Finn
Thank you, Mr. Maisey. This is a development...

Thank you, Mr. Maisey. This is a development which I had not anticipated.
I believe that I've made a number of false assumptions.
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 10th November 2019, 12:29 PM
Replies: 33
Views: 36,660
Posted By Mickey the Finn
"Keris [&] Daya Magic-Manfaat-Tuah-Misteri (Edisi...

"Keris [&] Daya Magic-Manfaat-Tuah-Misteri (Edisi Revisi)"
Ki Hudoyo Doyodipuro,Occ.
5th printing 2000
Publisher: Dahara Prize Semarang
Printer: Effhar Offset Semarang

My copy, around that...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 10th November 2019, 11:45 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 14,376
Posted By Mickey the Finn
Mr. Maisey, My former fiancée once became...

Mr. Maisey,
My former fiancée once became exasperated and upset with my inability to give a straight yes-or-no answer to, "[Prince] Charles will be the next king [of England], then"?
1) If, in...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 10th November 2019, 09:11 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 14,376
Posted By Mickey the Finn
Thank you, David. I have indeed seen, and am the...

Thank you, David. I have indeed seen, and am the current custodian of, a few Javanese and/or possibly Madurese figural ukiran which depict the digits of the hands in positions which might possibly...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 28th October 2019, 11:39 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 14,376
Posted By Mickey the Finn
Mudra and asana in/on keris hilts.

It's primarily (but not exclusively) Balinese hilts depicting a figure in asana which I'd like to gain some understanding of. "Mudras of India" by Carroll & Carroll (ISBN 978 1 84819 109 9) provides...
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