The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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Maxjeg, Thanks. Any chance of getting this photo back a little bit to show both of the sheaths? JohnThe knife was made by Nikolai Shlepov, a knifemaker from Moscow. In mass production, the knife looked like this:
Nikolai made it according to the drawings. On them the guard was a separate part made of brass. And the master replaced the plastic with stained wood.
This is not the original sheath. The original ones looked like this:
Maxjeg. I was wondering about the RPK Tunturipuukko Sheath on the right of the phot. From what I can see looks like an image of Lauri Torni, the famous Finnish and later US Soldier. Do you have a full photo of that sheath? JohnThis is not the original sheath. The original ones looked like this:
Photos from Russian chats and flea markets.
Those are badass. Super good looking.
Another post of this knife asked if anyone recognized the makers mark, and that it looked like maybe it was Norwegian. I emailed Pekka Tuominen, Master Knife maker in Finland, and he did not recognize the makers mark, and he also thought it looked like either a Swedish or Norwegian knife. John
Yes, thanks, thats fits as the knife came to me from Sweden.
shinyedges
On these two models the handles are aluminum, to balance properly and keep weight down. On the larger (handmade) models, I use steel for the same reasons. 
Thank you
