Unknown pamor

[A. G. Maisey]

I have a friend who is one of the current era's great pattern welders.

He is a modest, and rather retiring man, but he would possibly deny this, however, his body of work speaks for itself.

He is , I think, a member of this Forum, but he prefers not to post to it.

A few days ago he sent me some sketches that set forth his ideas on the way in which this pamor might have been made. These sketches do not, of course, answer Jean's question in respect of name, and if indeed my friend is correct about the way the pattern was constructed, then I think we can say that this was not an attempt at any known pamor, but is a new pattern, the name known only to the maker.

As I have said, this man is a great pattern welder. On a scale of one to ten I rate my knowledge level in this area as about 3 or 4, and I rate his knowledge level as about 8 or 9. He is vastly more knowledgeable in pattern welding than I am. Even though he is not really tuned into keris and has almost no knowledge at all of the way the smiths in Jawa and Madura work, we must take notice of his opinion because although the details of his theoretical construction might be wrong, it is very probable that his broad concept is correct.

The sketches I am publishing here were prepared by him for his students, and he has graciously agreed to their publication here.