Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
30th August 2009, 03:55 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 24,027
hulu Tajong?
Hi Bluerf,
Folowing your information I turn to "Spirit of Wood" to try to identify the below shown Hulu. In spite of the many pictures and nice drawings, (what a marvelous book) I am not able to...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
28th August 2009, 07:33 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 36,986
Hi Bluerf,
I think the keris with toli-toli...
Hi Bluerf,
I think the keris with toli-toli that you have shown is the same as the one below or a very close cousin.
The one below is announced as coming from Riau-lingga Sumatera. Presently in the...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
21st August 2009, 09:52 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 34,028
A great job
Lemmy,
You are really doing a great job. Not only smithing but carving. I am very,very impressed. One question: in your last photos you show us the ganja, neatly adjusted to the blade but on the...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
17th August 2009, 09:15 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 16,678
A mess ? NO an orderly disorder
Oh Alan,
What a balm on my heart to see that I am not the only one finding my way in my disorder !
What is important for me, is the result and not my miserable mess !
Thank you for sharing !...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
13th August 2009, 09:25 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 8,653
Great kris
Superb blade. I remember seeing one similar in KL in 1997 but could not afford it.
Is it possible to see its sarung and hulu ?
Thank you for sharing it.
Michel
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
22nd December 2008, 11:11 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 37,096
Humor and keris
Thanks Alan,
I love humour, but as you know English is not my mother tongue and I recognize that sometime I do not understand the jokes that are made, in particular when using local slang. (US,...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
22nd December 2008, 10:26 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 37,096
Can we disagree on a dream ?
Thank you David,
To have taken so much time and effort to explain the rules of this little game.
Now, if one cannot abide to the rules, one should not play at all !
So I should not have played !...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
18th December 2008, 11:17 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 37,096
Dream Kris
Well David and Alan,
I understand your point of view, but do not share it.
You remind us :the question is what keris would you create from scratch. This can never be your dream keris because ,...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
16th December 2008, 10:49 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 37,096
Dream Kris
I am lucky ! my dream keris exist :
A kris Nagakresna,XIX century, Surakarta.
Page 161 of court art of Indonesia
A beauty !
Michel
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th December 2008, 08:52 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 8,657
Old file utilisation
Thank you Lew,
I can conclude that the blade of the Gile was really forged and not obtained by stock removal. This means also that it must have been forged with several files that have been heat...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th December 2008, 11:46 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 7,896
A Shan Thai dha
Thank you Andrew and Mark.
XX century probably ?
I am hesitating if I should do anything on the blade or the sheath or just leave it as it is.
Thanks for your opinion.
Regards
Michel
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th December 2008, 11:37 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 8,657
A gile
Thank you Lew,
You are certainly right, I found your gile after a search with the name "gile" that was given by Andrew. I am just surprise by the file idea but I cannot explain the scratched network...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th December 2008, 06:54 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 8,657
A gile
Thanks to both Bill and Andrew. after a search a "gile" certainly. From a file ?
The original file would have been very wide and thick !
No other explanation for this grid on the blade ?
Thanks
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th December 2008, 10:46 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 7,896
A thai Dha ?
Can any Dha lover analyse the attached pictures and give an opinion?
I am totally incompetent in the Dha world, but think that this dha is from thailand,
blade is : 57 cm,
grip 31.cm,
blade...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th December 2008, 10:36 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 8,657
Origin ?
A strange weapon.
Blade is not brass, as it looks on the photo, but iron (steel ?)
Shape is curious; coming from East Africa ? ou South east Asia ?
Grip in wood with a shape that could also come...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
28th May 2008, 07:23 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 11,262
Hi Lemmy,
you really did a nice job. The...
Hi Lemmy,
you really did a nice job. The pendok, even with a thicker gage, is a challenge.
I just do not see how you managed to curl the pendok without letting any traces of your work. I took my...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
27th May 2008, 10:04 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 11,262
Well done Lemmy,
Congratulations!
I...
Well done Lemmy,
Congratulations!
I understand You made the pendok as well. You really covered quite a bit of ground. with very different technics.
Bravo
Michel
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th May 2008, 07:01 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 5,025
Origin ?
Any African weapon specialist on board ?
Greetings.
Where from ?
Overall length is 60cm
Blade only 33 cm
Blade is obviously not functional : too thin (2mm) for thrusting and inadequate for...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th April 2008, 10:18 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 5,840
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th April 2008, 03:21 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 5,840
spam
Hi Andrew,
How do I delete the spam from Lollergirl in my private message ?
Can you help ?
Thanks
Michel
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
8th April 2008, 11:03 PM
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Replies: 75
Views: 71,120
Tip of the scabbard
Hi Henk,
Thank you for the compliment. The tip is made of vegetable ivory as they call it. In fact it is tagua nut. A nut coming from a palm tree growing in South America. Extremely hard nuts, very...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
8th April 2008, 11:40 AM
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Replies: 75
Views: 71,120
Hi Alan,
Thank you for your kind words.
Yes,...
Hi Alan,
Thank you for your kind words.
Yes, sulfur and salt do not stain properly a blade, the mixture prepared as you explained, using only sulfur and rice water, seems to eat away the weaker...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
7th April 2008, 04:14 PM
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Replies: 75
Views: 71,120
Kris making.. a long and difficult process !
A long time ago, I started to forge a kris. I made several error in my forging and ended with a very small blade. To avoid wasting all my efforts, I decided to transform this heat welded blade in a...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
24th February 2008, 06:07 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 16,937
Appologies
I am sorry and I apologize for my impolite behavior.
I came in this thread like an elephant placing my hilt without explaining why I thought it was an information in complement to Alan hilt.
I did...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
23rd February 2008, 04:08 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 16,937
What do you think about this hilt ?
An other kris hilt outside of the traditional pattern !
Is that lady praying ? Is it a Christian nun ?
She wears a veil as long as herself but has her face uncovered.
Strange mixture of concepts,...
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