Interesting keris making video

Pusaka · 31st July 2014, 02:31 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3jZm1sPMDc

Above is the most interesting keris making video I have watched for a number of reasons.

Firstly it shows you some of the ceremony involved, offerings, full moon etc

Secondly most keris making vids I have seen show folding steel/nickel from factory whilst this vid shows them making the keris from raw materials taken from the ground.

Thirdly a technique is shown that I had never seen before in which the palmor material is put into a steel tube and both ends hammered down.

Fourthly and most interesting to me was the metals put into those tubes to make the pamor, meteorite and what looks like a gold chain are two things I picked out.

Using a tube solves many problems with using a material that does not readily forge easily in my mind.

31st July 2014, 02:31 AM	#1
Pusaka Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 341	Interesting keris making video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3jZm1sPMDc Above is the most interesting keris making video I have watched for a number of reasons. Firstly it shows you some of the ceremony involved, offerings, full moon etc Secondly most keris making vids I have seen show folding steel/nickel from factory whilst this vid shows them making the keris from raw materials taken from the ground. Thirdly a technique is shown that I had never seen before in which the palmor material is put into a steel tube and both ends hammered down. Fourthly and most interesting to me was the metals put into those tubes to make the pamor, meteorite and what looks like a gold chain are two things I picked out. Using a tube solves many problems with using a material that does not readily forge easily in my mind.