My new moro kris
 

I just adquire this beautiful kris, the pictures are from seller, the next week I will clean handle, I wish enjoy pictures.
Any comment are wellcome.
Thanks in advance
Carlos

Pretty. What does the blade's tip look like?

Carlos, can you post a picture of the whole sword when you have time. Also, what do you plan to do with the broken pommel? The crest is completely missing and I imagine that it would be a very difficult (if not impossible) repair given that the pommel is ivory. Perhaps a replacement in wood?

Yes, of course, here are the new pictures...
About pommel, I don,t know if I will repair in the future.

New pictures

Beautiful kris, certainly, I think, of a certain age and despite that the ganja doesn't appear to be separate.

Of course the gangya is separate.

A good blade. I have a cousin of it, or perhaps maybe even brother.

I cannot see any seem of separation

Beautiful blade Carlos and the hilt has come up well with cleaning. Congratulations.


Milandro, the separate gangya is perhaps best seen in Carlos' last picture of his first post.

Look here for the separation line.

I wouldn't use wood but perhaps faux ivory for repair. Also needs some blade polishing.

Nice honest junggayan kris. I love the fact that the unwoven rings are swassa.

I remember that Ron (Spunjer) has a rather similar junggayan kris some years back (i actually set up the deal with the sell for him) that also had the tail missing from the ivory junggayan which he had a wonderful restoration done on, but i believe he actually had the tail replaced with and newly carved old piece of ivory. Ron, if you are still lurking here perhaps you could throw up a few pics.
José, i am curious how you can be so sure that the rings are suassa just from the photos. Has Carlos had the metal tested?

The hue tells me either swassa or swassa plated. Not copper, but a 9k gold. I've handled lots of swassa and even once made swassa looking just like this.

The braided silver wire is obvious in color, but I think that the contrasting rings are swassa; they just don't look like brass. :shrug:








Good to see Shrug back again. :cool:

I'm not saying they are not suasa, i just question anyone's ability to be sure based solely on a photo. colour temperature of available light can always fool camera sensors and give incorrect hues in any photograph.