WELDED FORGED BOLSTER

This method of making kitchen knives is in very wide-spread use throughout the world, but only a few manufacturers in the Far East dare to claim that it can produce forged knives. In fact, this method of construction is used by the major Western cutlery manufacturers, but they do not say that these knives are forged. To get round the accusation of using improper terminology, the Chinese have invented the "fully forged" concept which means that the metal part is in one piece.

The technique used consists of assembling three metal parts (tang, bolster and blade) of which only the bolster is made by forging. The tang and blade made by lamination (cutting them out of a strip of steel ) are welded to the forged bolster.

This method uses forging solely for its ability of producing parts that are solid; other methods such as sintering can produce the same result.