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Old 31st July 2014, 01:31 AM   #1
Pusaka
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Default Interesting keris making video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3jZm1sPMDc

Above is the most interesting keris making video I have watched for a number of reasons.

Firstly it shows you some of the ceremony involved, offerings, full moon etc

Secondly most keris making vids I have seen show folding steel/nickel from factory whilst this vid shows them making the keris from raw materials taken from the ground.

Thirdly a technique is shown that I had never seen before in which the palmor material is put into a steel tube and both ends hammered down.

Fourthly and most interesting to me was the metals put into those tubes to make the pamor, meteorite and what looks like a gold chain are two things I picked out.

Using a tube solves many problems with using a material that does not readily forge easily in my mind.
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