Integrals

[samf]

I Would Like To Find Out Who Makes Integrals
Sam Fogler

 

[lwrhea]

Jerry Fisk makes em. The Brazilian makers also make some great integrals. Luciano Dorneales, Rodrigo Sfreddo, and Ricardo Vilar(forgive my spelling). Heck, I've been playing around with them myself. Lin

 

[ohen cepel]

Edmund Davidson in VA does great work of that type!

 

[Joss]

I love integrals...

It all depends what you mean by integral. A lot of smiths make knives with an integral ferrule and hidden tang. Personally, I love that style. Burt Foster (http://www.burtfoster.com/) and Bailey Bradshaw (http://www.bradshawcutlery.com/) are two smiths who have demonstrated their proficience at the style. I have an order with Nick Wheeler (http://www.wheelerknives.co) for such a piece, which I hop getting in the next 15 years or so... Several makers from Brazil have also made this a specialty: Ricardo & Gustavo Vilar, Luciano Dorneles, & Rodrigo Sfreddo (http://www.brazilianbladesmiths.com.br). There's a smith from Canada, (Christoph Deringer) who's made this a specialty. Finally, the top mastersmiths all have made some version (Don Fogg, Jerry Fisk, Tim Zowada, etc, etc)

For more sophisticated construction (full tang with integral guard, sometimes also integral butt, and even integral sub-hilt), the best known makers are stock remover. In no particular order, they include:
- Ricardo Velarde (http://www.velardeknives.com/)
- Ted Dowell
- Hill Knives of Netherland (http://www.hillknives.com/)
- Dietmar Kressler
- Todd Begg
Most of those guys are fairly well known, although Hill Knives, being Europeans, don't get the exposure they deserve. Todd Begg is also more of a newcomer, but he has a totaly unique style.

Finally, Scott Cook (http://www.scottcookknives.com/) is a maker who's created the closest there is to an integral folder, the Lochsa.

 

[RogerP]

Sam,

It's a really long list. Any way you can narrow it down? Big, small, plain, fancy, price etc.?

Just off the top of my head and in no order of any kind:

Burt Foster
Bailey Bradshaw
Russ Andrews
Luciano Dorneles
Ricardo Vilar
Rodrigo Sfreddo
Tim Foster
Jerry Fisk
Tai Goo
Don Fogg
Ron Newton
Ken Durham
John Parks
Christoph Derringer
Joe Flournoy
John Perry

And a couple pics for you:

Burt Foster:

Russ Andrews:

Bailey Bradshaw:

Roger

 

[Russ Andrews]

Ooooooooo!
I hadn't seen that Bradshaw piece before.
VERY nice piece.

 

[samf]

Thanks guys for all the there some real nice knives
Sam Fogler

 

[Joss]

I wonder what is the most complicated integral ever made. I believe sub-hilts are. I often dream of a forged integral D-guard bowie...

 

[Bailey Bradshaw]

Joss,

Coming from a smith who likes a challenge......keep dreamin'

 

[Thomason]

Here is one by John Parks

 

[Keith Montgomery]

Joss, in your original post, did you mean Ted Dowell?

Bailey, I can't imagine how much work would go into making an integral D-guard bowie.

I've seen some nice integrals from Joe Flournoy and Al Pendray.

 

[Joss]

Keith - you're correct, I'll edit my post.

 

[SharpByCoop]

I have a few forged ones...

Hill Pearce no longer makes knives, and these ones are about 15-20 years old. I still see some catching up that needs doing....

This one you have seen a gazillion times. It's in my avatar....

John Parks--again!

Tai Goo's 'Topsy-Turvy' integral

This style is a challenge to forge OR machine. Dietmar Kressler, Ricardo Velarde, and Edmund Davidson machine their integrals. All methods are difficult to produce.

Coop

 

[Mongo]

Great pics (as usual) Coop! I'll admit I am out of the loop, but why has Hill Pearce stopped making knives? Dead, illness, moved on to something else? Those are some of the most beautiful fixed blades I have ever laid eyes on!

 

[Kohai999]

Keith "Twig" Davis
Billy Mace Imel
Edmund Davidson with a bullet
Ricardo Velarde with a bullet
Don Fogg with a silver bullet (only if you talk nice to him)
Howard Clark, unobtainium, but he has done them.
Wolfgang Loerchner, probably the hardest one of them all, $$$$ and hard to get.
Ted Dowell, is not making any more, but they surface on the aftermarket more often then you would think.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson

 

[Mark Williams]

Wow,

Some absolutely beautiful work being displayed in this thread..

About two weeks ago. I decided to hang a portable light on a large knife that hangs on a beam over my head out in the shop. I have it hanging there to taunt me, to laugh at me.

I bumped into the light while showing a young fella how to grind a blade. and.....

BLAMMO.... The big knife feel and split my noggin open. First time I've felt faint in years. Didnt bleed much , but I wish I had pulled the skin together and glued it. I now have a nice half moon ridge on my head, like a gutter.

The blade that hit me is a D-guard integral

 

[Bastid]

Stunning work in this thread (every one of those knives.)


Mark, glad you are OK. I am thinking that was "punishment" for doing what you did for me. Looks like the knife gods were upset over that cane you made.

 

[Doug C]

The Tai Goo "Topsy-Turvy" is unlike anything I've ever seen.Did a search a while ago and his work is incredible.Thanks for posting all the pics,all of them are equally incredible.What Masters! :thumbup:

 

[2toes]

How about Tom Overeynder from Texas?

 

[Adam DesRosiers]

I bet Christoph Derringer would try one. He is a real glutton for punnishment!
NICE THREAD.
ADAM.