Integrals

Hi Kevin,
nice job. You didn't tell me you were working on another integral... What about the Mini Thorn ?
 
Just to add an opinion - while there are many makers of Integrals (and I own many by Velarde, Kressler and even Bill Pease) I think you have to rate the work of Dietmar Kressler as being just a cut above. I'd like to think that his peers are the likes of Bob Loveless and Ron Lake - there's just something a little bit different, a little bit better....
 
Patrick Moynot said:
Hi Kevin,
nice job. You didn't tell me you were working on another integral... What about the Mini Thorn ?
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I will be making them! The programming and design drawings aren't finalized yet.

Are you coming to the Belgian Guild Show in November? It's in Gembloux near Liege. I'll be there with the knife above and a few others also a bunch of folders.

Or anyone else in the area: come on by!
 
hey kevin -

do you have more info on the belgian guild show (dates, location, etc)? might be a possibility for me. cheers!
 
Belgian Knifemakers Society Knife show
12 and 13 november
Gembloux (Belgian)
Foyeur Communal

It will be my first year as a stand holder. I really like this show for it's relaxed atmosphere, and the Belgian beer of course.

Hope to meet you Kevin.


greetings Toni
 
Thanks for posting the info Toni. I look forward to meeting you! I think there are about 80 makers setting up at the show. It will be my first year there and so I arrive on thursday evening to have Friday to see the town.
 
tntbegg said:
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This is one of my tactical models called the Yeti, this is the first time I have posted a pic on this forum... if it doesn't show up I will re-do it...
I LOVE integrals!!


Todd Begg
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I absolutely LOVE that knife... wish I could afford it, lol. Would be great for field use.
 
Beautiful knife Todd.You defenitaly have your ouw style.I also love the look of your folders.:thumbup:
 
Ricardo Vilar has garnered several mentions in this thread concerning 'integral' knives - rightly so. Here's a very recent one from Ricardo:

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OAL 14 in., blade 9 in., balance point right at the blade/handle junction (perfect!), 11.4 oz., sheep horn handle.
 
Here's another integral hunting knife I call the Town & Country. Steel is Uddeholm Arne 1.2510 which is US O1 carbon toolsteel. Selectively heat treated by Markus Balbach. Grips are Camel bone.
Forgot to say, I'll have this one at the Belgian Show next weekend.

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RogerP said:
Very nice Buddy. What's the handle material on that one? It almost looks like smoothed-out sheep
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Roger - Yes, sheep horn it is - I have two other Ricardo Vilar integrals pictured below. Obviously, I like his work!

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I also have a Jerry Fisk integral. Fisk and Vilar have worked pretty closely together in the past.
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Forgive me, as these three images have been posted before. However, I figured it's not a bad thing to concentrate images of integral knives in a thread like this one. Should someone come along and search BladeForums for "integral" they'll get a lot of good stuff!
 
Here's an ivory and multi-bar damascus 10" bladed dirk from Daniel Eherneberger, that I should have bought when I first saw it on Blade Gallery a while back, who's pictures these are incidentally, but, I had not heard of him at the time and passed. Oh well, I'm sure the owner loves it.

Though it's often hard to get a sense of the fit and finish of a knife from a pic, I get a feeling from these pics that this knife does have great F&F.

(Again, pics from Blade Gallery)

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It is interesting to notice that, few days ago, Ricardo Vilar have been in the ABS Class talking on integrals. I called him yesterday to check on how it went and he said it was very nice! Said he had a wonderful time and had the oportunity to show how Brazilians forge their integrals. Said guys like Daniel Winkler and Jay Hendrickson were extra nice with him.

Back to the subject I think we are kind of mixing aples and oranges here. There is no way you can compare a stock removal integral and a forged integral, in my humble opinion. Don´t get me wrong, no one is better than the other! But the way to get there is so copletely diferent that, in my point of view, the results are very diferent as well.

In one case, you must be all over high tech procedures to get it done, in the other you must have a hell of a good skill with the hammer! They are both very dificult to achieve, but completely oposite... I guess.

What do you guys think?

Jeff Velasco
Brazilian Bladesmiths Website
 
Hi Jeff,

I don't think it's any more an "apples and oranges" scenario than, say, forged and stock removal bowies. Different processes and different skills, to be sure, but I can't imagine a thread on "bowies" or "integrals" that excluded one or the other on that basis.

Roger
 
BrB said:
What do you guys think?

Jeff Velasco
Brazilian Bladesmiths Website
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I agree with you 100%. I think the two techniques are totally different and the resulting knives have a vastly differing aesthetic.

I would never dream of trying to forge an integral as I wouldn't even know where to really start.

When it comes to machining integrals, you must plan your knife carefully then figure out the machining strategy then make chips. Elvis has left the building once you finish your drawing, there isn't much room for improv later. Once the program is running you just change the tools and hope you have done the program correctly.

Oh, well you can change the grip material later, but basically you design a knife and execute the design. At least I do. With normal stock removal knives, there's a lot more room for improv as you go along, again, at least in my work.

I do like forged integrals and I wouldn't exclude anyone. The Tai Goo blades are fantastic, among others.
 
Megalobyte said:
Here's an ivory and multi-bar damascus 10" bladed dirk from Daniel Eherneberger...
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Lovely knife, but doesn't seem to be an integral. Bolster damascus doesn't match blade.
 
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