Arsenic or realgar for Keris etching?

A. G. Maisey · 16th August 2009, 02:50 PM

Yes, in the photos this blade looks too dark.

But it may not be.

We do not know what the true colour of the material is:- we can all only work within the limits of the material.

It is not possible to make a Tuban blade look like a Surakarta blade.

Maybe what we see here is the correct colour for this blade.

Look at the examples I have posted:- there is a lot of variation in colour, and this is only a small sample, in reality, blade colours can vary a lot more than this.

Because of the limits of the material we need to be able to classify a blade according to tangguh so that we can recognise when the blade colour is correct.

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16th August 2009, 02:50 PM	#34
A. G. Maisey Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 7,015	Yes, in the photos this blade looks too dark. But it may not be. We do not know what the true colour of the material is:- we can all only work within the limits of the material. It is not possible to make a Tuban blade look like a Surakarta blade. Maybe what we see here is the correct colour for this blade. Look at the examples I have posted:- there is a lot of variation in colour, and this is only a small sample, in reality, blade colours can vary a lot more than this. Because of the limits of the material we need to be able to classify a blade according to tangguh so that we can recognise when the blade colour is correct.