Integral knife
An integral knife is a knife manufactured in a special way .
Manufacturing
The entire knife, i.e. H. The blade , hand guard, tang and pommel are forged from a single piece of metal (usually steel). Only the handle scales incorporated into the handle can be made of a different material (mostly wood, horn or plastic) and are added to the knife after the forging is complete. The fact that it is made from one piece makes the knife overall much more robust than a comparable knife that was assembled from different parts.
literature
- Peter Fronteddu, Stefan Steigerwald: integral knife . Step by step from the construction to the finished knife , Wieland Verlag, ISBN 978-3-938711-22-4
- Richard Kappeller: Exclusive Knives Volume I: Messermacher , BoD - Books on Demand, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7357-4255-1
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richard Kappeller: Exclusive Knives Volume I: Messermacher , pages 84 ff.