Any Puukko Recommendations?

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cerulean

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I'm looking to buy a puukko. I'm probably not going to spend more than $100 on it. Any recommendations?

I really like the look of Roselli's knives and I'm leaning heavily towards buying a Nikkarinpuukko (carpenter). I also like the looks of the Eräpuukko (hunter), but it may be too large. I'm looking for something small enough to carry sheathed in my front pocket.

Kankaanpää knives look good to me, but I don't know anything about their quality. The forged carbon steel sounds appealing though. Similarly, I don't know anything about Iisakki Järvenpää, although some of their cheaper carbon steel knives look like they may be a good deal.

Nothing from the Marttiini line really appeals to me, except perhaps the forged Lynx or a smaller Leuku.

Anyways, I'm certainly open to any suggestions.

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Cerulean

"Just because some folks think you make great kydex sheaths doesn't make you into some sort of mind reading psychologist." -Paracelsus
 
Give Kellam Knives Co. a call. Tel 1-800-390-6918. They carry a wide range of traditional Nordic knives.

 
Follow the Talonite Link in my sig to my site, at the top the first page is a link called 'Forums' click on that, you will find a large page.

Press Ctrl F, in the box type Puukos, and hit find.

There are two or three threads indxed there, a really big one is simply calles Puukos.

Also, run a search and you should come up with a good bit, especially if you include the Archives.

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Thank you,
Marion David Poff aka Eye, Cd'A ID, USA mdpoff@hotmail.com

Talonite and Cobalt Materials Resource Page

"We will either find a way, or make one." Hannibal, 210 B.C.
 
I really really dont like Iisakki järvenpääs product line! It sucks!!!

Marttiini (Kellam in USA) is better choise!

OK I have had only three Järvenpää-puukkos but my worst puukko ever is Iisakki Järvenpää. It is so bad that I call it tin-knife.

I'd say that little forged leuku is very good . In earlier threads I have told that it is one of my favorites.

If you are already leaning to Roselli I'd try UHC nikkari-puukko. Handle is not of curly birch and its not beautiful in any way but that should be good performer. Nomal Roselli nikkari is also good and better looking too.

I'll send you pics of little leuku.
 
I bought one of Kellam's R line puukkos, the R-150 or the Grandfather's Model. It is a wonderful forged knife with little in the way of decoration, as that is what I sought. It is very well made and very solid. Well worth the price.

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Walk in the Light,
Hugh Fuller
 
I have a KP - a fantastic knife, but not cheap. Last time I looked, almost anything brought in by Kellam is available elsewhere for less. My Kempainen was purchased from Knifecenter two or three years ago at a good price, although if the price is close I would prefer to deal with Chai Cutlery.
Anyone know what the "silver steel" actually is?
 
If anybody finds out what "silver steel" is, I'd like to know too! The Kainuun Puukko (KP) Tommi outfit doesn't discuss that sort of thing. It probably isn't Carbon V.
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More alternatives - If you don't mind that they aren't called "puukkos," being Scandinavian and not Finnish, the Frosts 137 from Mora, Sweden, in laminated carbon steel, is a good basic lightweight working-class belt knife. For more design creativity, in laminated stainless or Sandvik 12C27, depending, check out the Helle and Brusletto knives from Norway.

Finnish stainless is "mystery steel," and I think I recall seeing a rockwell figure of about RC55 somewhere on Marttiini's page (www.marttiini.fi), which is about par for non-Spyderco commercial kitchen knives.

"Ragnar" of www.ragweedforge.com has some very interesting decorated Norwegian knives, for any anachronistic dress-up occasion, that nobody else carries, and he has the Kankaanpaa line of rough and ready carbon steel puukos, which I like, and putting up a Kankaanpaa page is on my list of "things to do."

You can also find some of the Brusletto line from Norway at www.norwayshop.com, along with a lot of other Norwegian merchandise.


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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
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Hey, James, just for the history that it recalls, one of these days I want to get a Telemark Norwegian knife from you. The Telemark story is just too great and too heroic to pass up.

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Walk in the Light,
Hugh Fuller
 
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