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14th January 2011, 06:15 PM
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real patina you can't clean ? AAHummm?  may I give an example ? our national museum "Bronbeek" where I once visited the depots where the curator showed me a big part of the collection that was cleaned once where very old swords has turned in completely new looking stuff without patina because of the "cleaning" activety of former curators. It suprised me a little that members give advise to "clean" while they haven't seen the keris yet.... don't unterstand me wrong, dirt is dirt and as David mentioned oil cleaning is ok, but be very carefull with other stuff like the mentioned 0000 steelwool. first look,than think, ( than sleep a night) than think again, that act. untouched kerisses are getting so enourmous scarce..... Arjan Last edited by mandaukudi; 14th January 2011 at 06:30 PM. |
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