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[kai]

Hello Albert,

A shandigan barong with sharpened backedge, pira with genuine, antique scabbard, rare tabas, and other magnificient blades - great score!

Strange break on this piece. Tang broke and is still residing in the hilt.

Seems like it snapped fairly recently - possibly during some transport. Apparently, the tang had already an old crack through more than 2 thirds of its diameter: Sorrily, not much force needed to break it off completely...

Anyone have any experience in having the a tang reweld. My concern would be, adding extra material to the tang and not being able to fit it thru the hole of the ganja.

The battle-tested Moro method would call for serious stock removal from the blade as well as gangya - I don't think this is really called for with such a great twist core blade. Rewelding tangs is fairly regularly done with Indonesian keris: If you're willing to temporarely remove the gangya, I believe this shouldn't pose a serious problem for an experienced bladesmith to replace the tang and refile its shape so that the gangya can be snugly reattached again. This should hold perfectly well but won't be stable enough for real use, I guess.

Regards,
Kai