Looks like a good Puko. God knows I've seen A LOT of them. My old man was a short blade fanatic and soon even grand ma's Puko was to long for him. When I got my own first knife, a 5" Western knife he said it was "TO BIG AND LONG."Got it in. Smaller than I thought. Probably end up giving it to the wife.
On my mom's side, that Finnish Grand Father, showed me the use of a big knife that stuck with me. A Skarma/Sami. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_knife ) It took me a long time to get that big knife itch back when I got in to knives as people "Re-Discovered" the use of a big knife for wilderhood survival in the U.S. Yes I admit I forgot about it myself for a while. Grand Dad said I was to little and inexperienced to use a hatchet. So I got a short big blade education. Used it to cut sticks for Hare Snares, cut fire wood to cook the fish we caught. Well he did it I was on snow shoveling detail after we found some stumps sit on. He was a doctor and surgeon so we didn't have much time for things like that. Grand Dad and my Uncle, both doctors, did trout fishing only 10 min from the hospital he got built. I learned most of my wilderhood stuff from my mom who learned it from that grand dad, he grew up in Montana.
My most big blades used for wilderhood multi-tooling is my BK4, runner ups are my RD9 and BK9 with honorable mentions for the Woodsman, some times my CS Marauder and SP-10. If I had another BK5, but that has an important task assigned to it, I'd be using that as well as my SP5. Water Borne Adventures its usually the SS blades and a BK9 for the multi tasker stuff. I usually have a heavy 5160 for the jobs that would break most other blades, those are not very good multi-taskers but sure get woody things processed fast. Well the SP-10 is also a multi-tasker...but they don't make them any more, I grabbed one last one when I saw one available at regular price.
The BK4 gets used because I like using it. Its about only good for use on wilderhood tasks, unlike the BK5 is expected every big critter cutting job. One reason I keep the Fire Fly Blue Resin and Green Glow Stones in them on the BK5, keeps from getting lost in the evening. I'd of gotten some G-10 TKC scales for it for its "job", so far they are best for them. The BK4 really needs them Micarta Handles on it.
Edicus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_knife was what grand dad used. Yep a Skarma is one.
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. It's 90+ degrees and humid enough that by the time you get six steps out the door your shirt is wet and my foot that they operated on is screaming. But I need to get the craftsman garden tractor up to the garage to put it on charge because I need it to pull the trailer around for hauling trash for a project this weekend. Take the jump box out, and it's dead. So I go get my Gravely and jumper cables. Get it out to the craftsman (at back of the yard) and it runs out of gas . So I go get gas. get the Gravely started jump the craftsman. Take the Gravely back and put it in the garage. Go back and drive the craftsman to the garage and get it on the battery charger 