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Originally Posted by P.Abrera
Coming out of observe-and-absorb mode as I wouldn't mind discussing the pattern and technique with those who do make keris. 
It's a form of feather pattern?
If I were to approximate the pamor it would be welding up a couple of hundred layers of straight laminate, square it up, hot cut almost all the way through with a thick wedge-shaped hot cutter to "smear" the pattern then weld up the cut again. Maybe inset a thin straight laminate core in the split before welding up, drawing-out and forging to shape? The pattern converges at the tip but is not as "organized" as from the base up until the last few inches of the point. |
I think it falls in the general Pamor type Bulu Ayam - chicken feather, with styles like Ron Genduru, Ron Pakis etc.. I like the hot cut with smear effect idea. A skilled "smearer" might manage that. But it seems the layering is very even through the length of each layer: wouldn't a hammering compact the area by the cut, at the same time as it smears? Now, I'm thinking you're cutting the bar of 200 layers in the length from top to tip in order to get the right bend towards the tip along the cut. But then you have to shape the pattern of the layers so that the edges, which throughout the keris point forward, bend back towards the tip in order to improve penetration. How about
: you do your 200 layer bar, but you use individual packs of 3 layers folded in 2 so you have a 6 layer sandwitch with U side. You stack say 40 of them one after the other and you work out the shape of the chevron. You make 2 of them and you assemble them on both sides of a 3 layer bar with the layers perpendicular to the sides. Is it possible to make that? Could it be strong? It seems an akward contruction
