Resin-based Warangka & Hilt

[Mickey the Finn]

~cringe~ ~shudder~
Honestly, I really do not think so. Some things are simply not cricket, old boy; and some things are simply not done. Certain things are so far beyond the pale of decency that to even raise the question...

I would never even consider applying the insult of resin dress to any keris.

But as long as nobody else ever saw it, as long as it was kept in a singep, in a locked drawer, in a locked cabinet, in a locked room, I guess it might provide a suitable storage facility.

It might do, hypothetically speaking, as a storage facility...of sorts...but there's still the matter of the indignity inflicted upon the keris...

I've read about fibreglass warangka a few years ago. I've seen photos of cardboard kotak. I also have a singep here beside me, made of some sort of synthetic fabric with a "pseudo-batik" pattern incorporating the logo of some football club with the initials "ACM", the red cross on a white field of England, and the year 1899... If anybody ever gussied me up in such a getup, even on a "casual Friday"...

Just because a thing exists, it doesn't mean it ought to, nor that it's appropriate to use said thing for the purpose it's artificer intended.

M. t. F.