Lemmy, a pendok is made on a mandrel, these are usually of cast bronze and are collectibles in their own right.The brass or other material is formed around the mandrel and silver soldered either along one side, or in the middle at the front, where the joint will be hidden by the ornamentation. A small cap is silver soldered onto the tip. The craftsmen can get the surface quite smooth straight off the mandrel, but excess dents are smoothed out with a file and wet and dry paper. Silver pendoks begin as little grains of silver that is melted and cast into a pig, this is then beaten out by hand into a fan shaped sheet, the edges where the joint will be made are left a little thicker than the body of the sheet, a little thicker means, on average, no more than about ten strikes less with the hammer. It takes about 3 days to make the sheet before the pendok itself begins to be made. A trade quality brass pendok can be made and decorated in about a day.As quality rises, so does the time taken to make the pendok.
Michel, the line of separation between blade body and gonjo varies according to tangguh, in fact, Lemmy's line of separation is quite similar to the angle seen in a Javanese blade of Tuban Mataram classification.
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