Dapur question ?

[A. G. Maisey]

I'm afraid that I'm a bit lost here.

I cannot understand what you mean by "interrupted pamor" Jean.

When the forging for the keris was made, there would have been pamor from one end to the other.

When the sogokan were cut, they would have been cut through the pamor.

If the core was not quite centered --- which is very frequently the case --- the sogokan could be cut to the same depth and pamor could occur in one, and not in the other. The only way to avoid this is by using the "crossed V" method of construction, but this is usually only found in very high quality keris.One would not expect to find it in a keris of this quality.

This blade has suffered from much erosion, due to age, because of this, some layers of pamor have been lost.

If I look at this blade I see pretty much what I would expect to see in a blade that is in this deteriorated condition. Old blades very seldom look like new blades, especially when they have remained in country of origin for a lengthy period.