Another Big Chopper???

I'd like to see a big Becker "skrama". Maybe 12" or so.

i had considered getting a varustuleka skrama and see about putting a becker handle on it, have haven't gotten around to it
 
Took me a while to remember why I liked big field knives, then I remembered my Finnish Grand Dad took me out checking bunny snares around some Alder Brush and Various evergreen trees. He used a Skarma his parents brought over from Finland and it looked old. He told me when growing up in Montana it was a wall hanger when he was a kid and took it to a master blacksmith who retempered it. He used it as his out door knife for a while with a Poko along with a small hatchet and an axe with a spike on the end as a pickeroon. When his family after about 5 years he used it were aghast for him using the "Family Heirloom"! They looked it over and saw it was even better than they remembered, he told them the master blacksmith fixed all the weak areas and such. He used it after that, I saw it as a kid, found out it was sent to Finland to get studied on, and ended up in some local museum it was that old.

A good Skarma is a great out doors knife.
 
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