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14th August 2023, 01:06 PM | #1 |
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14th August 2023, 02:05 PM | #2 |
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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. |
14th August 2023, 10:48 PM | #3 |
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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.
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15th August 2023, 01:10 AM | #4 |
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What Alan remarked is true indeed and I have asked for more photo to be given.
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17th August 2023, 04:20 AM | #5 |
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I'm with Alan. I love the pamor but not too crazy about the dapor.
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17th August 2023, 10:15 AM | #6 |
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I'm OK with the dhapur, what turns me off is the execution, when the photo was taken from a bad angle that misrepresented proportion, and that compounded the less than good effect, but now that has been fixed the overall impression is really not so bad.
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17th August 2023, 02:19 PM | #7 |
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Are these the same blades? Very close.
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