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22nd March 2024, 03:24 PM | #1 |
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I pretty much agree with Milandro here. You have a bit of an advantage living in The Netherlands. While the basic cleaning of keris blades is relatively easy, restaining with warangan is a more difficult job, but i believe that in The Netherlands you are likely to be able to find some with experience who can do that job for you.
As far as that nasty repair job on the sheath, i will disagree somewhat with Milandro. IF when you take that apart and clean off all the old glue you find that all the original wood is fully intact i thing you might be able to repair that hilt to the level that the repair would e hardly noticeable. Even with missing areas of wood i have seen some of our members do amazing fill work that is pretty seamless. If this is not your skillset some well skilled person could do it. I have seen remarkable wood repairs on these pages that might amaze you. Whoever did this repair in the first place was unnecessarily sloppy. Two of your keris need new mendhaks, either because they are missing or beyond repair. These are easy to obtain online or from a dealer in your home country. I think these can all be considered antique, but not really old. Perhaps late 19th to early 20th century. |
22nd March 2024, 04:36 PM | #2 |
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Thank you for your detailed answers! I do indeed live in the Netherlands. To be completely honest, Krissen never really interested me. Probably because they are offered here so often. However, these were so cheap that I couldn't refuse them. Now that I have them I find them quite interesting. I'll just leave them as they are for now. Restoring them would probably cost many times more than they are worth.
As for the cloth I received with it, after some research it probably comes from the province of Lampung and is called a Tapis. |
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22nd March 2024, 07:06 PM | #4 | |
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But i do agree with Detlef that you should at least attempt to do a minimal amount of maintenance on these blades to eliminate any active rust or they will only continue to deteriorate. The basic cleaning of a keris does not take too much skill, just a bit of time and patience. There are quite a few threads in our archive on this subject, But this thread should help get you started. http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=23934 |
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22nd March 2024, 07:36 PM | #5 |
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Dear all,
The keris in the middle is in decent shape; the one below should benefit from warangan, too. The tombak looks Sunda to me. More close-ups of the batik needed. In my experience, these colonial collections are rarely limited to a single cultural origin. Regards, Kai |
22nd March 2024, 07:37 PM | #6 |
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Everything shown here is absolutely able to be brought back to life, and is well worth the small amount of work involved to do so.
Cel7, if you feel disinclined to undertake this work, perhaps you might consider passing these items to somebody living near to you who would welcome the opportunity to bring these cultural icons back from oblivion. This discussion group has a number of people who are members & who live in The Netherlands. |
22nd March 2024, 08:49 PM | #7 |
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After reading your messages I decided to give them a makeover. Fine steel wool and a little oil will work wonders. I leave the sheaths as they are.
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