Eduardo C. Berardo - Featured Bladesmith

Eduardo Berardo

Eduardo Cenevida Berardo had his first contact with custom cutlery during a vacation trip to the Rio Grande do Sul State mountains. A friend, after seeing a couple of pictures of two motorcycles built by Berardo, said he would probably like to meet a guy named Luciano Dorneles, who was into custom knives. He then made a visit to his workshop.

At that time Luciano was finishing a La Pampa model, an integral bolster gaucho style knife in damascus with an all damascus sheath. Berardo was startled in wonder by what could be done with hands and skill and his interest for the craft grew. In this trip Berardo and Luciano talked for two hours that kindly accepted to tutor him.

The day after his arrival at his hometown Catanduva, São Paulo state, Berardo decided to build his propane forge and improvised a piece of railroad track as an anvil. Just like that, in January 2005 he began his knife making learning constantly oriented by phone by Dorneles.

In April 2005 he went to Nova Petrópolis where he stayed for two weeks learning from Dorneles and Rodrigo Sfreddo. This period resulted in great technical improvement that awarded Berardo the Best Beginner Knife Maker prize at the 2005 São Paulo Custom Knife Show.

Besides being a bladesmith, Eduardo Berardo is a first Lieutenant of the São Paulo State Military Police, Physical Education teacher and a Judo instructor.

All integrals are forged from 1" 52100 round stock. Other blades may be forged from 5160. All blades are differentially heat treated for best performance.

Eduardo Cenevida Berardo: Catanduva / SP - Brazil
Phone: (+55) 17 3525-2595 - E-mail: berardo@polmil.sp.gov.br


Gaucho Style Utility	Gaucho Style Utility	Gaucho Style Utility	Gauchesca	Gauchesca
52100 integral bolster blade and stainless fittings with rosewood handle	52100 integral bolster blade and stainless fittings with rosewood handle	52100 integral bolster blade and stainless fittings with rosewood handle	52100 integral bolster blade and stainless fittings with rosewood handle	52100 integral bolster blade and stainless fittings with rosewood handle

Damascus Hunter	Integral Hunter	Integral Hunter	Integral Huntar	Integral Hunter
Damascus integral blade with maple handle.	52100 integral blade with stainless escutcheon and rosewood handle	52100 integral blade with stainless escutcheon and ebony handle	52100 integral bolster blade and maple handle	52100 integral blade with mother-of-pearl escutcheon and ebony handle

Integral Hunters	Chef Knife	Chef Knife	Gaucho Camp Knife	Fighter
Small group of integral hunters	52100 integral blade and lacewood handle	52100 integral blade and rosewood handle	Damascus knife by Luciano Dorneles; 52100 integral blade with rosewood handle	5160 blade, stainless fittings and bone escutcheon

Fighter	Damascus Fighter	Jacko Bowie	Jacko Bowie	Integral Camp Knife
5160 blade and stainless fittings with rosewood handle	Damascus blade and fittings with wild olivewood handle	5160 blade with stainless fittings and imbuia burl handle	5160 blade with stainless fittings and imbuia burl handle	12" long integral blade with rosewood handle and silver wire inlay

Swift Wind Fighter	Damascus Fighter	Damascus Utility	Sendero	Paraty
Dark imbuia burl handle, domed pins, damascus blade and furnitures with stainless spacer.	Giraffe bone handle with all damascus blade and fittings.	Damascus integral bolster blade with nice maple handle.	W pattern damascus blade and guard with thuya burl stablized handle.	52100 blade with stainless fittings and premium imbuia burl handle

Black Dress Bowie	Black Dress Bowie	Black Dress Bowie
Imbuia burl handle with damascus fittings and stainless pins and spacers in 52100 forged blade.	Detail of the blade and guard junctiona and handle.	Backside of the handle where you can see all the activity on the imbuia burl.

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