Not Tools Killer

Although classified as stabbing weapons, the keris is made not merely to kill. Keris more as a weapon in a symbolic sense. Kris therefore also considered to have supernatural powers. For those who believe, keris can increase a person of courage. Keris can avoid the attack of pest outbreaks and plant diseases. Keris can get rid of bad spirits. Keris can help facilitate the search for sustenance. In short, kris tuahnya can be utilized, thereby providing safety assistance to owners and those around him. There is also kris-kris really used to kill, for example keris used by executioners court to carry out the sentence of death row inmates. But the usefulness as a tool of this killer and even a special ceremonial character.
Keris is a piece of art that includes a wrought art, sculpture and carving, the art form, and figurative art. Making is always accompanied by certain prayers, incantations and special ceremony. The first prayer of a master when it will start making the keris is appealing to the Almighty, so that the keris made if done later will not mecelakakan owner or anyone else. The prayers were also followed by tapabrata, among others, not sleeping, not eating, not touching the opposite sex at certain times.
Keris-making raw materials are iron, steel and prestige materials. This prestige materials there are two kinds. First, rock or meteorite meteorites that contain the element titanium. Other prestige material is nickel. Iron and prestige repeatedly beaten, many-layered, at least 64 layers. Generally about 360 layers and the most 4264 layers. Only after that, to get good sharpness, inserted a thin layer of steel in the blades. All the objects covered, although thin, will always be stronger than the original object. The theory was already known to our ancestors centuries ago. Compare with plywood (plywood) and helical steel wire, as we know in today's modern world.
Options will stone meteorites that contain the element titanium, also an amazing discoveries of our ancestors. Because titanium proved to have many advantages compared with other metals. Element is hard, strong, lightweight and corrosion resistant. In modern civilization titanium protective layer used for spacecraft, rockets and intercontinental missiles.