I am very much aware of the way people over there look at these things and , in fact , you may remember my quote in another thread
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Originally Posted by milandro
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I understand that a western blacksmith would chuck the blade BUT an Indonesian empuh probably, beside not throwing away some work done, he probably thinks that the process is only partly in his hands and that he is rather the instruments of a superior being that through him creates the blade and maks it inhabited by a spirit and gives the blade its properties....
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