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Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey
The big difference in working with damascus & working with pamor blades that have a laminated steel core, is that with the pamor blade you have only a comparatively thin layer of contrasting material and you need to forge out the entire blade to its intended length without deforming the pamor pattern, then when you are doing the cold work, you need to be extremely careful not to cut all the way through the pamor and expose the solid black of the core. If we use the construction method of an inserted edge, rather than an enclosed core we can avoid that core exposure problem, but I don't think Javanese makers have used the inserted edge since about 1700, & not all makers used it then.
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Hello，Alan. I think maybe that's what we mean. My friend hold the belief that this keris's pamor represent some old craftsmanship which should be from 17th-18th century.