As I remarked in my earlier post, I personally cannot divorce the recognition of artificial aging from appraisal of the blade as a whole. In other words I need to look at form, material, method of manufacture, craftsmanship, the indicators that allow classification of a blade in accordance with tangguh, overall condition, and lastly I might pay a little attention to the blade surface.
If one wishes to identify falsely aged blades with relative certainty, one needs first to learn how to appraise and classify a keris. One cannot just look at a blade surface and based on the erosion pattern of the metal declare that the blade is, or is not, artificially aged.
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