New Made keris, dhapur Mundarang

[ferrylaki]

Originally Posted by ganjawulung

Dear Ferry,
I did give you my comment already. And it has already 'trespassing the old pakem' of perkerisan by -- (1) never say not-good thing to someone's keris, although not yet (2) 'ninthing' (tinging, knocking the blade in order to hear the tinging sound of the blade)...

Anyway, someday I hope we'll meet somewhere. Don't forget to bring your kerises...


Mmmm, no comment on this. I don't even bother what dhapur it is. What I know is, that this "lar gangsir" keris is really a masterpiece I've seen, and that the keris was not made by a mediocre villageois Empu, nor recent Surakartan Empu. I've handled it in my hand once...

Like appreciating paintings. Appreciation cannot merely come through bundles of old books. Sometimes, you must look carefully and thoroughly the masterpieces. Some other (royal) masterpieces in the past are astonishing too. (Lucky, Gusti Poeger had permitted to look at a tiny them, in Sasana Poesaka, a year before karaton was on fire couple years ago). Some of the masterpieces are "di luar pakem". .

One of the astonishing masterpiece I've seen was, a beautiful 'keleng' (pamorless) keris with PB style, with relief of 'goddess in kemben' (kneeling goddes in traditional dress) with only minimal touch of gold kinatah... I don't even know what dhapur it should be. Nyi Lara Kidoel? Just beautiful. This keris now is in a bank locker in Jakarta....

GANJAWULUNG

Pak Ganjawulung,
I'd like to meet you in person some day. but most of my kerises are in Solo now. seem like my dearest mother just love them alot. I'm now trying to motivate my family to love keris. I've read your article about empu Subandi from karanganyar. in the article you wrote aboout young people showing high interest in keris making, and one of them is my young brother. my brother's name is Argo. I encouraged him to study keris about a year ago. but the aprentice is temporarily stoped, he is now just simply try to make a living first. I do hope some day he'll continue his keris making practice. He once ask me to meka a besalen for him. based on 6 month keris study, and I rejected his idea.

Pak Ganja, thank you for remind me how importand to respect others keris. some times I just too excited and forget this manner.'never say-not good' and the ' nanthing' manner.
I are a very lucky person pak Ganja. You've seen wonderful kerises. I'd loke to hae a similar experience some day. I'm looking forward to see you pak Ganja.