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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 11
Views: 910
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Mickey the Finn
![]() I may be peremptorily dismissing out of hand any keris with a pendok upon which a date is engraved/stamped/chiseled, but...I usually do the same with pendok showing any lambang keraton... There... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 5
Views: 610
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Mickey the Finn
![]() Rushing is not a thing I do. I have a keris, as well as a tombak which have remained inside their respective warangka and tutup since I acquired them several years ago. Neither one shows any obvious... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 5
Views: 610
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Mickey the Finn
![]() I'm glad you took the time to register here and ask for information. And there's a lot of valuable information available at this forum. Many others have simply assumed that if anything is loose, it... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 55
Views: 4,277
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Mickey the Finn
![]() I had been cosidering, while suffering from non-COVID related illness over the past 7 days, about making a post pertaining to D.I. Yogyakarta, Letjen Soedirman and other loosely connected topics, but... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 55
Views: 4,277
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Mickey the Finn
![]() I know. I think of you, very generally speaking, as a "Surakarta guy". I'm not saying that I think you can always be counted on to be the voice of Keraton Surakarta Hadiningrat at this forum. Some... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 55
Views: 4,277
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Mickey the Finn
![]() Alan, my "issue" is probably no more than a semantic one, a fussing over choice of words. And my choice of Bahasa Indonesia words will probably be found to be less than precise, and perhaps flat-out... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 55
Views: 4,277
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Mickey the Finn
![]() After some sober second thought, I've realized that I have no desire to argue with any member of this forum. I have no confidence in my ability to hold my own in a keris-related argument or debate... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 55
Views: 4,277
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Mickey the Finn
![]() I wasn't sure about the correct spelling of the name of the dhapur, so I Googled a couple of variants and went with the one which brought up the greater volume of results. This perhaps very concisely... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 1
Views: 391
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Mickey the Finn
![]() On the topic of online sources of keris information in Bahasa Indonesia, scribd.com appears to have a few interesting titles. Before I go ahead and buy myself a membership, does anyone else have... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,119
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Mickey the Finn
![]() jagabuwana, your photos show precisely the same results which I get when I take a Mora knife or industrial planer blade, wrap in plastic film, and then pour in enough lemon juice to wet the blade.... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 55
Views: 4,277
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Mickey the Finn
![]() Over the years, I've become wary of giving out any of my email addresses for the privelege of access to this or that website. Last autumn I let my guard down for access to academia.org; in... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 35
Views: 1,972
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Mickey the Finn
![]() There are some who believe that a simple majority [no matter how ill-informed, misinformed, disinformed, wilfully blind, hopelessly benighted, or flat-out wrong that simple majority may be] shall... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 71
Views: 20,211
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Mickey the Finn
![]() In the province of Canada in which I currently reside, the provincial government's Liquor Distribution Branch distributes alcohol and cannabis products, and sells them at Provincial government... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 5
Views: 888
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Mickey the Finn
![]() The title of the post got my attention. I've never seen anything like it (a combination of luk and lurus in a single blade), with the exception of dapur urubing dilah. What's the length and... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,459
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Mickey the Finn
![]() Psst... The previous owner had the hilt on backwards. I suspect that it's because people unfamiliar with keris see the greneng as having a function similar to what they think the function of "Spanish... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 71
Views: 20,211
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Mickey the Finn
![]() Please, do not drink any vodka, or any other alcoholic beverage. Alcohol is very insidious in it's influence and deleterious in it's effect. It is a poisonous substance. I was essentially agreeing... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,482
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Mickey the Finn
![]() Hello kai. I did view the closeups. To be honest, my first thought was, "It's hair from a pig". Much of the hair seen in the photos looks too long to be from a pig, although it's possible I'm... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 71
Views: 20,211
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Mickey the Finn
![]() I vividly recall the occasion when (with my parents as a preadolescent) I visited a place billed as an art gallery. In that place was displayed a pair/ set of mens drawers, affixed to a white canvas... |
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
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Replies: 0
Views: 537
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Mickey the Finn
![]() I've got a problem: I don't know where to get translations for terms such as Warsa, Môngsô, Sadwårå/Paringkêlan, Haståwårå/Padewan, Sångåwårå/Padangon, Saptåwårå/Pancasuda, Paarasan, dll. The... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,482
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Mickey the Finn
![]() The white hair, I'd say, is from a goat; seems to be the most likely suspect. Similar hair decorates a newly manufactured mandau I've got in the closet. I was thinking of replacing it (the goat hair)... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 15
Views: 1,992
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Mickey the Finn
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,451
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Mickey the Finn
![]() Thomas, If and/ or when it's convenient for you, could I ask you to post a closeup photo of the end/ tip of the "crosspiece" of the scabbard, from "head-on"? A similar photo of the "buntut"/ bottom... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 41
Views: 8,537
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Mickey the Finn
![]() Discussion about the identity of the gada/mace toting personage caught my attention. The material to follow is mostly from Wikipedia and Vedicfeed, and does not reflect my opinion about the identity... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,168
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Mickey the Finn
![]() This is a topic which may or may not have been addressed exhaustively in an archived post. Last Wednesday I was reminded once again of my own mortality when I received word of the death of an uncle.... |
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,060
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Mickey the Finn
![]() Error or not, I myself would not mind having a complete edition/copy of this booklet to study for myself, if only primarily to help in understanding Bahasa Indonesia. Even if it's not "hard... |
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