Wax (?) on the pendok

[Gustav]

Alan, the upper end of Jogja Slorok should be more curved, as should be the end of Pendok on the backside. We can adjust the backside of such Pendok, but not the end of a Slorok with elaborated pattern and pronounced border at the Atasan without making a new border part for that adjustment there (which nevertheless wouldn' fit the overall pattern). I doubt that was the case here.

[kino]

Rick - could a special event be court related?

Gustav & Alan - thank you for your input.

[Sajen]

Hello Albert,

Here you can see how a kemalo pendok looks like.

Regards,
Detlef

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by kino

Rick - could a special event be court related?

See here: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showpo...8&postcount=15

[kino]

Thank you for showing the image of the kemalo Pendok, also for the added information.

They apply the lacquer thick and heavy on the Pendok, looking at the remnants of my example.

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by kino

They apply the lacquer thick and heavy on the Pendok, looking at the remnants of my example.

Yes, and I guess that the problem is often climate change, I've seen several pendoks where the kemalo is cracked or completely gone.

Regards,
Detlef

[A. G. Maisey]

Gustav, some are curved at the top, some are not. Some Jogja pendok are made for court dress some are not. There is a lot of variation in pendoks & other dress and this is particularly true where where dress has been made to order, or made outside a major hub. Just because something does not follow a pattern such as we are used to seeing, that does not mean it misses a classification entirely.

What I said in my previous post was that it looked like Jogja. The thing that would make it Jogja or not is not the curve at the top of the pendok, it is the overall form, & whether or not that form fits the Jogja style. Lots of different pendoks from lots of different areas have a curved top, but the Jogja style pendok has a more narrow buntut that Solo or Banyumas.

Incidentally, if we wanted to turn a Jogja pendok with a curved top into a pendok with a flat top, that is a pretty easy thing to do, we just square it off & give it a new lis. No big deal. Stuff like this are sometimes done.

[Gustav]

Well, I also wrote, it doesn't look like typical Jogja. By the way, the other Keris posted here by Sajen has a similar Pendok combined with a Solo Atasan.

[Gustav]

Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey

Lots of different pendoks from lots of different areas have a curved top, but the Jogja style pendok has a more narrow buntut that Solo or Banyumas.

Note the difference in overall profile, and the way in which the Jogja style pendok narrows towards the buntut (literally "tail", "rear end"), something that is difficult to see in a photo is that the buntut of a Jogja pendok is much more rounded than a Solo pendok buntut.

The Buntut of Sunggingan Wrongko actually is perhaps even slightly more rounded then Kino's one.