Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
6th January 2009, 03:30 AM
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Thank you, Rick,
This 'shell hilt' is also...
Thank you, Rick,
This 'shell hilt' is also heavier than ordinary stone or agate. And you are right, it is harder to carve. I put other fotos, which I took on daylight...
GANJAWULUNG
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
5th January 2009, 06:05 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 17,561
TRIDACNA Keris Hilt?
Dear All,
Would you please inform me, is this the kind of "tridacna hilt"? How can you identify whether this is "tridacna" or not? What is the specialty of this kind of hilt? (Who wears this kind...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
3rd January 2009, 02:04 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 25,327
Thanks Alan, especially for the precise word of...
Thanks Alan, especially for the precise word of "smoke and mirror". Yes, Javanese people usually are living very much with such smoke and mirror of the past... Until today.
But I respect very much...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
2nd January 2009, 05:54 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 25,327
Dear Michael, every traditional Javanese who...
Dear Michael, every traditional Javanese who likes wayang, is usually familiar with this popular figure -- Gendheng Permoni, a very popular nickname of Bathari Durga in Jawa. And this "Gendheng...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
2nd January 2009, 01:27 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 25,327
Another pics on "permoni" or "durga hilts". The...
Another pics on "permoni" or "durga hilts". The brown one, I found it in Banyumas area -- about 100 or more kilometers South of Cirebon (western part of Central Java), and the black one I got it from...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
1st January 2009, 02:03 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 25,327
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
1st January 2009, 01:18 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 25,327
I don't know, Michael. But at least I saw two...
I don't know, Michael. But at least I saw two more hilts such like this in the Pesta Rakyat Cirebon last week. They called such hilts as "gendheng permoni hilts". (I myself got two hilts such like...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
31st December 2008, 12:00 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 25,327
DURGA Hilt?
Dear All,
I took this photo at an exhibition, Pesta Rakyat Cirebon (Folk Festival of Cirebon) at Jalan Siliwangi, Cirebon last week. An interesting combination -- "durga" hilt (?) combined on an old...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
30th December 2008, 11:42 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 31,509
I am not sure, BluErf, whether this kind of...
I am not sure, BluErf, whether this kind of warangka form was originally from Tegal or not. Because, some of old Cirebon and Banten collections also found with this kind of style.
I don't think...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
30th December 2008, 11:35 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 16,966
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
21st December 2008, 06:14 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 31,509
SELUT, CIREBON KERIS AND KEBO KANTONG
Dear Tunggul Ametung, BlueErf and All,
Most kerises with Cirebon sheaths, hilts and seluts I found, existed without mendhak. But some of them, I found with very simple mendhak, and almost no...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
2nd September 2008, 05:03 AM
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Replies: 55
Views: 45,716
Other examples
These are other examples of Java Demam hilts. Three variations of size, normal, medium and small size... Not in a good condition
Ganjawulung
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
1st September 2008, 05:49 AM
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Replies: 55
Views: 45,716
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
1st September 2008, 04:56 AM
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Replies: 55
Views: 45,716
Dear Newsteel, (and Michael too...),
Actually,...
Dear Newsteel, (and Michael too...),
Actually, Hindhu-Islamic Cirebon -- which the past kingdom was older than Islamic Banten in the extreme west of Java and the Islamic Demak in the northern part...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
31st August 2008, 05:45 AM
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Replies: 55
Views: 45,716
CIREBON Hilts
Just for a little comparison to Michael's and Marco's hilts. These are Cirebon hilts -- with Jawa Demam style. Cirebon located in the northern-west coast of Central Jawa -- this old Islamic kingdom...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
30th August 2008, 05:05 AM
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Replies: 71
Views: 83,224
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
30th August 2008, 04:18 AM
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Replies: 71
Views: 83,224
Dear Marco,
You need not to buy or waste money...
Dear Marco,
You need not to buy or waste money to get "empu" title. Because "empu" is not a "formal title" as "doctor" or "phd". Not at all. Some one will be called "empu" by other people because he...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
27th August 2008, 04:05 PM
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Replies: 71
Views: 83,224
NAGA to be
This is another "kelengan to be" Rick. A new design of Naga dhapur, by Ki Sukamdi. Not yet finished, and even not yet formed. Still a "kodokan". Usually, Ki Sukamdi draws with 1:1 scale in a piece of...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
27th August 2008, 03:24 AM
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Replies: 71
Views: 83,224
Me too, Rick. I like "kelengan" (keleng = all...
Me too, Rick. I like "kelengan" (keleng = all black) kerises either. The first one is made by a young Maduran, Sulhan before 2006 (I got it in 2006, during exhibition in Bentara Budaya). The other is...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
26th August 2008, 08:55 PM
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Replies: 71
Views: 83,224
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
26th August 2008, 08:52 PM
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Replies: 71
Views: 83,224
Another KERIS GUEST
Another special keris guest, Mr "Big" Suhaimi from Singapore, with (first and third from left) our keris friends from Malaysia. The far right, is KRT (Kanjeng Raden Tumenggung) Hartonodiningrat --...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
26th August 2008, 08:37 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 5,830
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
26th August 2008, 05:21 PM
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Replies: 71
Views: 83,224
New CENGKRONG
Back to younger style of kerises, here is a new design of a keris with dhapur of "Cengkrong with luk", created by Ki Sukamdi -- solonese keris maker. Not yet stained with warangan. It is just "fresh...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
26th August 2008, 05:00 PM
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Replies: 71
Views: 83,224
KRISDISK Author
The Danish "Kriskdisk" author, Karsten Sejr Jensen (and wife) also came to Jakarta, only a couple days before the keris Exhibition. You may see their picture, when they visited Mr Haryono Guritno --...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
26th August 2008, 04:31 PM
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Replies: 71
Views: 83,224
JAKARTA'S Keris Guests
Dear All,
During the "new era" (kamardikan) keris exhibition in Bentara Budaya, Jakarta on August 2008, we have some special keris guests, Mrs & Mr Bronwen and Garrett Solyom (as you may see in...
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