My Grandfathers Keris

[A. G. Maisey]

Look carefully at the details, the jenggot is obvious, the remnant rondha nunut is quite eroded, these things might have been added after the blade had been completed. Just little things, but if it strays from the pakem, that puts it diluar pakem, however, I must emphasize that I'm only talking Surakarta Pakem, it might very well qualify for a different name if in accordance with some other pakem.

The Surakarta is these days taken as the gold standard, but if we go through that pakem very carefully & compare with present day more or less generally held beliefs, there are a number of places where we cannot find agreement with the Surakarta Pakem.