17th August 2009, 04:50 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Germany, Dortmund
Posts: 9,164
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Originally Posted by Greybeard
Thank you, Detlef. In this case I can leave the tridacna hilt on my keris (a very nice old 13-luk Mataram Senopaten blade, by the way) without risking corrosion of the pesi. Actually, I intended to replace the tridacna hilt with a common wooden planar hilt and put the tridacna hilt on display ...
Best regards,
Heinz
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Like it sounds this will be better, a Jawa Deman hilt isn't good for a javanese blade. Better for a Sumatra blade.
Regards,
Detlef
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