Wooden hilt cup and composite wood hilt

[David]

Originally Posted by adamb

I've just noticed that the wooden hilt of another of my old Bugis keris has two patches of different-looking material (shaded areas in this schematic illustration) in more or less the same places as the other one I posted above, with lacquer over both the patches and the original wood - but this time, the repair work, if that is what it is, seems to have been much less expertly done.

Has anyone else seen this with Bugis keris hilts before?

I'm pretty sure what you see on this second hilt is just a variation in the colour of the wood.