Favorite: Stockman or Puuko? [summer bracket series]

Emotionally, this is a tough one. But in the city, a folder is more carriable and I like the choice of blades. In the woods with one knife it's a toss-up for me between one sturdy blade or two spare blades.
So stockman, if I could have only one.
 
Now, I appreciate the Puuko and think it's a dinkum pattern. I have a decent one and have carried enough to appreciate it.

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But, I carried a Camillus-Buck 303 stockman pattern everyday for better than 10 years; and I have more stockman pattern knives than any other.
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Stockman.
 
Frank, the top right hand Buck 9 old script ) is the one I just gifted a mate of mine-beautifull knife! Thats a nice collection...and can I say I suspect just a small part of yours!
 
Favorite: Stockman or Puuko?
Sorry do not understand

Favorite: Stockman AND Puuko
That's better
A slipjoint is not a fixed blade
They do different things
Need both

For the woods, a Queen 4" D2 in Amber bone and a Woods Jewel in 3 5/8" carbon blade with birch and reindeer handle
For backpacking, a SAK Huntsman and a Mora 3 1/2" SS with a guard and wooden handle in a flat leather sheath
 
Other than my son's Mora (if you can count this), I have never used a puukko. I don't have much opportunity to carry a fixed blade, so with these choices I'll have to go with the stockman.

Since I prefer smaller knives, this has got to be my favorite, the Craftsman small stockman.

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And this one comes in right behind it, the Case 6344 HE

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I'll go stockman, three usefull blades, legal everywhere, can never go wrong with a stockman.
 
OK, silly but fun.

I'm going to weigh in behind the Puukko.

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A design which I admit I passed by as a little old fashioned (which it is!) at first but as time passed and my knowledge of knives grew it dawned on me that this is one well designed knife. Comfortable handle in all grips, rhomboid blade with high scandi grind and taper to tip gives you strength with incredible cutting ability. Even the sheath is clever, the wooden lining enables you to draw the knife quickly and safely.

The best feature for me though is having a narrower width blade than the handle, this offers you far more control and power with detail work than a wide bladed knife offers.

I like the stockman and do pocket mine from time to time but am more in the single blade slippy camp these days. Can't see me castrating a bullock soon (and I'd have to be a brave man to do it with a spey the size of the one on most Stockmans;)).

Sam
 
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The stockman is pulling ahead.

Currently tally is:
15 - Stockman
8 - Finnish/Swedish Puukko (includes the Mora)
 
Stockman, never owned a Puuko ad have 2 stockmans, I like the look of the puukko but don't think I'd trade :p
 
This (or something similar)

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goes in my pocket every day while this

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stays in the drawer until I need it.


So, stockman it is.;)
 
don't have either -- but, I prefer a single or double blade in a slipjoint and I'm just about to order a puukko as a hiking / camping knife, so ... puukko it is for me.
 
To champs against eachother already in the groundplay... Like brasil and deutchland in the first match of football vm. I so love the new to me pattern stockman and almost every day Carry My case cv. But up against à pucko that love means nothing for à swede. The pucko is the groundmark of knife design here. Has locked that way since man discovered iron more than 1000 years ago. Before that brons. I love the stockman but have the pucko inherited in my genes

Bosse
 
A stockman goes in my pocket every day. I have several puukkos as well, but they aren't always practical for EDC. Still my favorite traditional fixed-blade, however.
 
The puukkos are very beautiful. As I have little experience with them myself, I will have to vote for the stockman.
 
I hadn't even heard of a Puukko before the start of the year (and would have guessed it was something in the "deer" family), so once again my ignernt 'merican vote goes to the only knife of the two I knew about pre-Bladeforums, the stockman.

~ P.
 
These early rounds put things together that are impossible choices. The Puukko fared well, as one would expect from such a deeply traditional design. Great pictures and great to hear the differences in thinking.

Final tally

20: Stockman
10: Puuko/Mora

FWIW, I'm going to be buying a puukko before the summer is out and will probably never own a stockman.

This weeks poll will be up shortly!
 
I've got to go with the stockman. I actually like a pukko better, but see it as a specialty knife whereas the stockman is an every day utility. I am speaking of my personal usage; I know that the pukko is just that where it was developed and originally used. A little different world than the stockman's world.

Ed J

Edit - Rats! Missed the boat again. Oh well, my choice won the poll. Now, I really need to find me a nice Puukko. I have one nice one thejammpa gave me last year, but I want one with a longer blade to go with it.
 
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