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21st December 2023, 01:45 PM
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Location: Germany, Dortmund
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The blade looks good after your cleaning. And the uwer (mendak is the Javanese term) looks very nice, I guess that it is from silver.
But like others have said, I would look to give the blade a better handle and an other scabbard, I think the tip from Milandro is a good one.  Regards, Detlef |
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21st December 2023, 01:49 PM
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Location: Germany, Dortmund
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It's a nice blade!
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21st December 2023, 03:04 PM
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Location: Netherlands
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looks like a nice blade
I personally wouldn't touch it with abrasives and would ask a person to use Warangan to clean it further with traditional methods |
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21st December 2023, 03:44 PM
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Location: Nova Scotia
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You could take exacting measurements and trace the blade from all angles on paper and hopefully find someone in Bali to make you a new sarung if you are really keen on changing out this dress. You would undoubtedly need to do final adjustments if you did, so i would ask that they send it to you before attaching the gander. As for warangan, you might have some difficulty finding someone who can do a good Balinese warangan job. This keris still seems to retain some of it's old Balinese stain. I might choose to simply preserve it as is considering this. As for abrasives, i wouldn't worry too much about doing any damage with 1000 git paper or 0000 steel wool. Looking at the cleaned up blade i would say that it is of a fairly decent quality. Competent, but not what could be considered high end. In other words, i wouldn't spend more money than the blade is worth redressing it. |
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21st December 2023, 06:08 PM
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Thank's a lot gentlemen for all your messages and infomations
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