Fixed blades for sale.

cvarner13

cvarner13

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Thinning out my collection of knives. Not really interesed in trades but will entertain all offers. Things I may be interested in are as follows.

Guns or gun parts
Optics
Spyderco Rubicon or Domino
Southern Grind Spyder Monkey
Titanium Tent Stove

1. Withdrawn

2. Gossman Tusker Companion, S7 black micarta with thick red liners. Knife is a user and my first Gossman, previous owner applied gun blue to tang. Sold, 4 1/4 blade, 8 3/4 overall, 5/32 thick

3. Gossman Puukko, 3V, 3/32 thick new never used. , 4 1/4” blade, 8 1/2 overall. SOLD

4. Wolf Creek Froge, 3V, Extremely comfortable in hand. 5” blade. $275

5. Core Knife Company, Core Heart, 1095, made for someone with XL hands. 4 3/4” blade, 9 1/2” overall 1/8 thick $180

6. Veikko Hakkarainen Kullervo Puukko $old

7. Lon Humpry Rustic Bravo. 1095, 4 1/2, 9 1/4 sold
8. Siembida Peregrine, S7, $180, 2 1/2 blade 6”overall. $old

9. LT Wright Sospes, O1, sold
6” blade, 11” overall, 3/16th thick
Pictures and more to come. If interested pleasereply in thread and send me a pm.

https://imgur.com/a/zlxu8
 
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... [Many puukkos have been] hand made by Finnish blacksmith Veikko Hakkarainen living and working in Tapio, a small locality 40 km north of Rovaniemi, on lake Tuhnajajärvi. A very reserved man, he doesn’t really like to talk about himself except for strictly business related matters. A fourth generation blacksmith, he used to forge agricultural tools before specializing in puukkos in the ’80s."


Veikko Hakkarainen

EXAMPLE OF KULLERVO PUUKKO
"The knife comes in a feathersticks filled wooden giftbox, made by the same man that supplies also Marttiini Oy, together with a certificate of authenticity written in Finnish. The name Kullervo comes from the ill fated Kalevala character....

Due to the hermetic character of the maker I have no precise information about the actual crafting, so I had to search around and mainly went with guesswork. The flat section blade was probably forged, just with hand held hammer, from W-Nr 1.1750 carbon steel, equivalent to US 1075. I wasn’t able to obtain a word about heat treatment. Bevels are slightly concave, ground to 17°, with a small microbevel; shaving sharp out of the box. The tang is quite thick and gives the all knife a good balance.

The handle is composed of birch bark [disks]..., compressed between two brass bolsters, the front one 7 mm thick, the back one 5 mm thick; as usual with birch bark handles it has a plush and smooth feeling, remaining very grippy. As already said in a previous review birch bark is waterproof and provides a very firm grip whatever hands are tired, bloody or moist.The handle has a subtle teardrop cross section and fills the hand well.

The sheath was machine sewn on the back, with a hand operated Singer, from 2 mm thick cowhide. The edge of the mouth isn’t folded inside and there is actually some space between handle and the back part of the mouth itself, leading to a just decent friction retention, but nothing incredible. Inside there is a one sided plastic protective liner. The twisted leather belt loop simply slides into a vertical cut before the stitching, much like on leukus and on old maasepän puukkos."























"Veikko Hakkarainen is a full time blacksmith who lives and works in Tapio, a small locality a few km away from Rovaniemi, the “capital” of Finnish Lappland.

His great grandfather, grandfather and his father were also blacksmiths, but they didn’t craft knives for a living, though his father made few during retirement. Veikko was taught about blacksmithing basics by his father doing his forging on a charcoal fire, but he’s mostly self taught. In fact he learned puukko making by himself.

Before 1978 he used to forge agriculture tools, then he was asked by Lauri-Tuottet, a small souvenir company in Rovaniemi, to forge blades for them. That’s when he started to forge blades and make puukkos regularly. Since then he has focused on knives only and his Kullervo Puukko, named for a character in the Kalevala the national saga of Finland, is now a registered trade mark in Finland. ( Scroll down after the photos for the story of ill-fated Kullervo.)

His goal has always been to make the finest knives possible, as precise as possible, paying careful attention to details and giving the best of himself to every knife. In thirty five years of knife making for a living he has received major awards twice, even though this isn’t really important to him. In 1986 his Kullervo won a puukko contest in “Metsästys & Kalastus” (Hunting & Fishing) magazine and in 1995 he was chosen as the best Finnish knife smith. The most important thing, he says, is customer satisfaction, not the awards.

As long as his body will allow him, he’ll forge more puukkos and, after all, he plans to keep hammering for at least for another 10 years."
 
I have a weaver kaspa 3-12x50 still in the box, brand new. I would like to trade for the wolf creek forge or gossman tusker. Feel free to email if interested gtgaus30@yahoo.com. Thanks
 
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