Helle knives for Bushcraft

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I am looking to buy a Helle for a bushcraft knife

I do not want a blade longer than 3 1/2"
And I want the price at around $60

I am looking at three models:
Harmoni
Symfoni
Besseggen


What do you think?
Any other sugestions?
Other manufacturers?

thanks
 
Those seem like pretty good choices. All my scandi experience is with moras, but if you go to www.ragweedforge.com they have looooooads of scandis from all the Scandinavian knife companies. I'd go there. Helles mostley use stainless, so if your more partial to carbon steel I'd look at other companies like mora and roselli. Not much more I can give you than that, should be plenty of knife that follow your specs there.
 
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:D I had a Helle Futura and I liked it pretty well. I traded it for a Camillus Crewman on another forum.:D
 
ktomes_340 said:
:D I had a Helle Futura and I liked it pretty well. I traded it for a Camillus Crewman on another forum.:D
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Actually, it was this forum. I'm pretty sure I have your former Helle Futura, and you have my Crewman!

I recently used the Futura on a weekend trip to NH, and it did the fire prep work - including some batoning.:thumbup:


To the OP - the Futura has the most comfortable handle of any of my knives, and has a blade just barely under 4". It's an attractive knife too (like most Helles). The sheath is a little strange, though.
 
The Roselli Carpenter is an incredibly popular knife and on my list of knives to get. Apparently the regular version is more popular than the UHC version. You can see this knife at Ragweed Forge's Roselli page.

Check out Ben's Backwoods selection of knives also. Make sure to check out the Enzo Trapper there. Nothing but good reviews and also on my list.

Kellam also makes so popular models of scandis that should be checked out. I've nearly pulled the trigger on Wolverine several times, but I'm unsure about the steel.
 
I absolutely love my helle harding. Drop point scandi and a very comfortable handle for carving. Just under 4in so it should fill.
Good looking knife beside's being just about perfect for a small stick tang knife.
The brass stud/sheath retention is very functional.
Does anyone have a pic of the tang's through the handle btw? always wondered.

Hey Minnesota, it is a laminated carbon sandwich. My big lapplander is stainless however.
 
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Second the harding... i had one and traded it. Great knife indeed but was so pretty i didnt want to use it :o

Still a great knife tho!

Brusletto Nansen is a great one as well. I actually like it more than my Helle....cuz i could bring myself to use the Nansen :)
 
My buddy has one, I think the harding. It is really pretty, comfortable in the hand and extremely sharp. My dislikes of it, too light. Not that I like heavy clunkers, but it just doesn't feel like it has substance to it. Second thing I don't like is the mirror polish, which makes it look nice, but it is very hard to keep it that way. Because it is so light in the hand, I probably wouldn't trust it as much as I do some of my more robust blades, but it is a fine knife if you restrict yourself to knife-user approved tasks.
 
I want a Helle Wind and Brakar real, real bad. That said I'd check out ROSARMS' offerings as well, for very reasonably priced, beautiful blades. Their proprietary steel is very similar to BG-42. Check out the Fry 2 and Companion 2 models, I believe both of those are in your price range.
 
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