Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
10th September 2024, 02:48 AM
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Keris and other Malay Weapons by Gerald B. Gardner
I’m so happy and felt privileged to get this 1936 first publication book ( reprinted in 2009) by Gerald Gardner on Keris and other Malay Weapons. This a rare piece and I’m loving it. This book was...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
3rd September 2024, 12:44 PM
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Replies: 15
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
3rd September 2024, 03:25 AM
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Replies: 15
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
2nd September 2024, 09:50 PM
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Replies: 15
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My Second Keris from eBay
This one is longer and it has a beautiful warangka. The blade looks like it’s gorge from steel and has some coating on it. Alimony looks like varnish. Hopefully it’s not some kind of poison like...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
2nd September 2024, 09:04 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 22,208
One the side with a clrearer Lam Alif and the...
One the side with a clrearer Lam Alif and the tree trunk, I can see the pamor seems to be continuous and turns into island shape at the tip of the blade. Whilst on the other side it looks like an...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
2nd September 2024, 08:54 PM
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Replies: 15
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After cleaning
Thank you Maisey. I did a bid of search on what you said below. Interesting indeed. On one side the pamor looks like a Lam Alif at a base of a large tree trunk. Perharps it’s just my imagination.
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
2nd September 2024, 03:33 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 22,208
Thank you for the feedback everyone. Let me...
Thank you for the feedback everyone. Let me attempt to clean the blade first then IÂ’ll repost the picture for our discussion. I just received it yesterday and I only used WD40 to take out some rust...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
1st September 2024, 01:39 AM
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Replies: 15
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Need advice on this keris I got from eBay
I’m trying to understand the pamor. Looks pretty interesting. Almost like a coiling snake but can’t really tell. Appreciate your thoughts. Btw, good to be back to this group after awhile.
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Forum: Keris Swap Forum
2nd January 2012, 04:29 AM
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
31st December 2011, 03:08 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 30,071
Great thanks David/AG for the excellent...
Great thanks David/AG for the excellent rationalization on empu and description of tangguh. In all honesty I don't understand the term empu. I thought it's a name given to a keris maker. From both of...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
30th December 2011, 10:24 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 30,071
Marco,
If it is a trick, then this act...
Marco,
If it is a trick, then this act should also be possible for any other forms of dagger like weapons. It would be interesting to make this comparison.
David,
I know...it's amazing ins't...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
30th December 2011, 11:27 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 30,071
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
29th December 2011, 11:37 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 30,071
Pamor & Tanguh
Ivoke,
Thank you so much for spending time in explaining the Javanese/Balinese folklore of keris interpretation. I valued that a lot. There are various literatures on the interpretation of...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
28th December 2011, 02:21 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 30,071
Hello Rick, Yes, I own this keris.I bought it...
Hello Rick, Yes, I own this keris.I bought it from a keris collector in Bali whose name I cannot mention here. He has huge collections and have exhibit his keris at Vredeburg - Yogyakarta in 2005. ...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
27th December 2011, 12:31 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 30,071
Need Help to Identify Pamor and Tangguh
Dear friends and colleagues,
I have recently taken a keris from Bali at [name edited] collection. He told me that this keris is from old 17th century Madura steel and aged is over 200 years. I was...
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