Recommendation? Finnish Knife

[SwissHeritageCo]

There have been several knives made in this style lately, the Spyderco and the Benchmade seem to be the popular ones. They were called "puukko" by the designers, and now the name seems to have stuck. In addition, if you look around the internet, anything either made in Finland, Norway or Sweden or resembling something made there is now labelled however erroneously as a "puukko" as this seems to be the popular buzz word for knives from that region.
That being said, real puukkot from Finland have had many shapes and sizes, and the modern conception of a puukko has a grind line above the midpoint of the blade......

Many of the better ones will have a rhomboid grind also, where the blade is thicker at the grind line than it is at the spine....

Most of the knife designs from BPS seem to have originated from the so-called "bush craft" thing, where its perceived that a knife has to be a piece of flat stock with a sharpened edge to be of any use in the field.....

Those vintage kauhavan's are beautiful.

 

[jfk1110]

Those vintage kauhavan's are beautiful.

Thread 'The Puukko' https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/the-puukko.904702/

Have a look here bud...... He's got some collection........ Gorgeous!!!!

 

[Rostovsky]

If you take the set of latitudes where Finland and the Scandinavian countries are located and start moving east, you can see that the knives previously used by the indigenous population in these areas are almost always similar. Descents to zero and mandatory insertion into a wooden handle. Try washing a knife after cutting fish in a river with a water temperature of about zero degrees Celsius and it will become clear why the wood on the handle is needed. And so from Finland to the farthest east to the northern Japanese islands where the Ainu lived.