Detlef, when we are dealing with low quality, village type dress we can find almost anything in the way dress is put together. Village people would often make dress themselves, or buy bits and pieces from a market, new, used, and assemble it themselves. Fit of gandar to atasan did not/does not need to be good because the thing is a dress item, and the joint cannot be seen when it is put in place in the setagen ( the sash around the waist where the scabbard is worn)
David R. clearly likes rather rustic things, he ID's himself as an "ethnic" collector, which in my experience means people like the stuff that still smells of cooking smoke. If I'm right about David R.'s preferences, then he's best to restore this scabbard as is, but if he wants to upgrade it to something that the vast majority of keris collectors prefer he should simply buy a new pendok and forget what's underneath it.
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