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are 9 banjars in Kamasan village, which each make different products:
1. Banjar Pande Mas (gold)
2. Banjar Pande (different metals)
3. Banjar Sangging - (brassworks; paintings in the old Klungkung style)
4. Banjar Peken Pande - (different metals)
5. Banjar Siku - (farmers)
6. Banjar Kacang Dawa - (farmers)
7. Banjar Tabanan - (silver and copper)
8. Banjar Pande Kaler - (blacksmithing)
9. Banjar Celangi - (different handicrafts)

Ketut Murdana has a traditional (Malay) ubub which he says is 200 years old; made of two trunks of nangka tree
he uses bamboo areng which he buys
he uses a brick fire wall, which Garrett says are shown in lontar illustrations ((see Siskala and Niskala))
he says that if he didn't use a brick wall, he would have to sit further from the fire
most of the pandes in Banjar Pende Kaler use brick fire walls, he says; they do not use pits for the hammer swingers correction: there are only 4 perapen in Banjar Pende Kaler, of which 2 are not actively producing
his anvil is nail-shaped, with a hole (?)
he mixes his metals, using a combination of steel and regular iron (besi baja and besi biasa); in Balinese this process is called 'mijer' ('mijah'?); the Indonesian wor[[strikethrough]]k[[/strikethrough]]d is 'pijar'
on day of our visit Ketut Murdana making pickaxes (panyong in Balinese); used to dig sand or limestone blocks (batu padas)
he says German steel best, but no longer available, so he must use per
he uses both a water and oil quench
the oil is 'minyak oli bekas' (used motor oil) which he gets free of charge from car garages (bengkel mobil)
he only quenches the ends of his tools (ujungnya)
he buys all kinds of iron, including new iron bars
these new iron bars are long, and he pays 4000 Rp a kilo for them; used for making 'pengali pasir' (some kind of tool to dig sand)
Ketut Murdana has done blacksmithing work since he was in the 4th grade, and he is now about 30 years old
he uses up 1 file every 2 weeks; uses the cheaper type of file sometimes he 'menyepuh' (quenches) factory-made pickaxes from Java; he can sepuh 25 a day
he also repairs tools

15. from visit to brassworks of I Made Sumerta, Kamasan village

located in Banjar Sangging, Kamasan
making rather awful vases and other items from used shell casings
4 guys working in the back, with a showroom in front
repousse work
brass put over a forming mold made of resin (damar sela) mixed with coconut oil and kitchen ashes
this mixture called 'gale'

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