New forged keris for review

[Gustav]

And here for comparison the original Keris, auctioned earlier this year.

[Anthony G.]

Originally Posted by Gustav

And here for comparison the original Keris, auctioned earlier this year.

This is awesome piece, majo era keris?

[A. G. Maisey]

and what a difference we have, the original is something pretty nice, just the difference in detail & proportion destroys the copy.

[Anthony G.]

Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey

and what a difference we have, the original is something pretty nice, just the difference in detail & proportion destroys the copy.

very true. I supposed the base of the bilah is kind of too 'wide'.

[David]

Well, i'm jumping on the "ugly" train here as well. As stated, the pamor is pretty brilliant, but the rest of this keris is just not attractive.
Another thing that i find disturbing is the way the pamor simply runs right over the ganan figure on the gandik rather than working with the contours of the carved figure there. This figure also seems stiff and cartoonish compared to the original model. The greneng seems to not understand how ron dha should be shaped.

[A. G. Maisey]

maybe the angle of the photograph has contributed a lot to this perception of ugliness, I feel that if this photo had been taken with the camera positioned 90 degrees at mid-blade, & with a small F-stop we might be seeing something different here.

[Anthony G.]

What Alan remarked is true indeed and I have asked for more photo to be given.