NICE ANTIQUE KERIS KRIS DAGGER HANDLE HILT - GENUINE OLD TAYUMAN WOOD

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NICE ANTIQUE KERIS KRIS DAGGER HANDLE HILT - GENUINE OLD TAYUMAN WOOD:
$13.50

This listing is for a nice old keris kris handle made from genuine tayuman wood and it comes as a set with an old simple brass mendak.
I believe this handle is from Central Java in Banyumasan style
What is tayuman wood?
I got this information from the web about tayuman wood :

Species: Cassia Laevigata Willd (a synonym for Senna septemtrionalis (Viv.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby)
Description: A woody shrub or tree known by a large number of synonyms throughout the world. In English, the preferred common name is “smooth senna” or arsenic bush. In Java, it is also known as senting/tayoomas/trembalon. Tayuman is increasingly difficult to obtain. Rarely is the trunk of the bush large enough with which to fashion a keris sheath. It is mostly used for hilt.
Appearance: Unlike Kemuning, Tayuman usually has a dark reddish color with no visible grain (sera). It is quite smooth.
Significance: Tayuman is the first choice for use in keris hilts at Jogjakarta dan Surakarta. It is a very dense wood and therefore shifts the balance of the keris back into the hand.

As you can see a genuine tayuman hilt is not really that easy to come by. Many will say that a handle is made from tayuman wood but in reality it is not. I have been told by experts that tayuman wood, like ebony, and cocobolo, is very dense and heavy and would sink in water. You can search up youtube for wood that sinks in water. The tayuman is not mentioned there but just to give you some idea on how to test density of certain kinds of wood by means of sinking. I posted a couple of pics showing you how this handle sinks in water.
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