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Originally Posted by guwaya
The newly made blades nowadays - mostly by Madurese people - are most often polished.
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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.
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Originally Posted by guwaya
In my eyes the lots of "Lombok keris" on the market now is a dealers' concept same to the lots of Sumbawa keris.
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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?