Seven village metal?

David · 11th November 2011, 04:16 PM

Sorry Pusaka, but i can see no real connection between Caster's keris and thogchag objects. I am very doubtful that this keris contains any meteoric ore. I just spent some time looking at a large variety of thogchag objects on the web and can see little in common with the metal used in Caster's keris which is most probably a brass casting. There seems to actually be quite a variance of metal color and surface texture in these objects and they all look quite different from this keris.
Frankly i feel like this thread has travelled all over the place without really drawing much connection to the original question at hand, which is your pendok and why it may not show any signs of tarnishing. Certainly it is an alloy of some sort and metal alloys of various make-up have been used in this area of the world for quite some time. But the tangents here into the sonic qualities of various metals and gamelan gongs and the materials used to create Tibetan thogchags has brought us no closer to an answer about your pendok and has little to do with the subject of this particular forum. I would love to see us focus this thread more to the question at hand.

11th November 2011, 04:16 PM	#32
David Keris forum moderator Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 7,220	Sorry Pusaka, but i can see no real connection between Caster's keris and thogchag objects. I am very doubtful that this keris contains any meteoric ore. I just spent some time looking at a large variety of thogchag objects on the web and can see little in common with the metal used in Caster's keris which is most probably a brass casting. There seems to actually be quite a variance of metal color and surface texture in these objects and they all look quite different from this keris. Frankly i feel like this thread has travelled all over the place without really drawing much connection to the original question at hand, which is your pendok and why it may not show any signs of tarnishing. Certainly it is an alloy of some sort and metal alloys of various make-up have been used in this area of the world for quite some time. But the tangents here into the sonic qualities of various metals and gamelan gongs and the materials used to create Tibetan thogchags has brought us no closer to an answer about your pendok and has little to do with the subject of this particular forum. I would love to see us focus this thread more to the question at hand.