Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th November 2005, 12:47 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
14th November 2005, 08:11 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th November 2005, 08:12 PM
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Just realised that if you made meteorite steel...
Just realised that if you made meteorite steel from two different types of meteorite, one with a high nickel content and one with a lower nickel content you could forge them together and still have a...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th November 2005, 06:03 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th November 2005, 05:05 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th November 2005, 04:43 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th November 2005, 04:29 PM
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Sounds very interesting but the idea of a...
Sounds very interesting but the idea of a meteorite blade with nothing added to it but a pinch of carbon appeals to me more :D
Lightning steel...hmm..you are talking about a steel lightning rod...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th November 2005, 04:09 PM
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Since a sword blade is long it would make more...
Since a sword blade is long it would make more sense to make it from steel because being a long blade it will flex more then a short keris blade and thus have more chance of breaking if it was Iron....
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th November 2005, 03:53 PM
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The ultimate meteorite Keris!
There is one thing I would love to try with regards to keris. Have you ever tried to make a keris from just Meteorite steel. Now remember the difference between steel and Iron, I know it is common to...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th November 2005, 02:30 PM
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Ok I think I now understand the problem. Old...
Ok I think I now understand the problem. Old keris are made with Iron with or without pamor but new keris are made with steel with or without pamor. The difference between Iron and steel is that...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th November 2005, 09:31 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th November 2005, 09:23 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th November 2005, 08:55 PM
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Personally anything 100 years old or less is...
Personally anything 100 years old or less is modern but I know this will be different for each person.
Can someone please explain what Pamor Sanak, Pamor Luwu and Keleng are.
Also I remember...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th November 2005, 05:18 PM
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Why is the Iron black?? if you look at a modern...
Why is the Iron black?? if you look at a modern keris like the one I seen on this forum (bellow) it is silver as we would expect since it is steel but my old keris is black like the one in your photo...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th November 2005, 05:11 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th November 2005, 12:37 PM
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Old keris Iron Vs modern keris
I have noticed that old keris blades are sharper then modern keris made with modern steel. They also hold an edge far longer then modern steel keris. I have also noticed that they are less prone to...
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