My new moro kris

[milandro]

Beautiful kris, certainly, I think, of a certain age and despite that the ganja doesn't appear to be separate.

[Gustav]

Of course the gangya is separate.

A good blade. I have a cousin of it, or perhaps maybe even brother.

[milandro]

I cannot see any seem of separation

[Ian]

Beautiful blade Carlos and the hilt has come up well with cleaning. Congratulations.


Milandro, the separate gangya is perhaps best seen in Carlos' last picture of his first post.

[David]

Originally Posted by milandro

I cannot see any seem of separation

Look here for the separation line.

[Battara]

I wouldn't use wood but perhaps faux ivory for repair. Also needs some blade polishing.

Nice honest junggayan kris. I love the fact that the unwoven rings are swassa.

[David]

Originally Posted by Battara

I wouldn't use wood but perhaps faux ivory for repair. Also needs some blade polishing.

Nice honest junggayan kris. I love the fact that the unwoven rings are swassa.

I remember that Ron (Spunjer) has a rather similar junggayan kris some years back (i actually set up the deal with the sell for him) that also had the tail missing from the ivory junggayan which he had a wonderful restoration done on, but i believe he actually had the tail replaced with and newly carved old piece of ivory. Ron, if you are still lurking here perhaps you could throw up a few pics.
José, i am curious how you can be so sure that the rings are suassa just from the photos. Has Carlos had the metal tested?

[Battara]

The hue tells me either swassa or swassa plated. Not copper, but a 9k gold. I've handled lots of swassa and even once made swassa looking just like this.