Helle Knives

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Dear sir's please could anybody tell me about this knife,I have just found it being stocked by my local dealer.It looks great,But as we know looks can be deceptive,I also know nothing about the blade steel please any help would be very helpfull Many thanks BLINDREF

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Hi,
Helle is from Norway and if you look at the websitewww.helle.no you get a lot of useful information. You knife model is a Harding.

In my opinion Helle knives are very good and made to be used.

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Carl
 
great knives!

i've got three Helles right now and looking for excuses to get more.

great steel, easy for amatuer sharpeners and i've never been hassled for having one of the shorter models on my belt (Nying).


Metis
 
I don't have any factory-made Helles but have put together a few of my own with hardwood handles & laminated stainless Helle blades. As mentioned above, they are intended for use and are easy to sharpen -- great values in tradiitonal fixed blades.

best,

Andrew
 
re Helle blade steel, pasted below is a post from the "knifeforums" board that I saved a while ago; hadn't seen this detail anywhere else, including the heat treatment of the edge layer all the way to 60 HRC. The Sandvik 12c27 steel used in the edge layer might be considered middle of the road by custom knife standards, but it is a known quantity and performs very well in the real world, & this is a company that has lots of experience with it.

FWIW I can certainly attest to the sharpness and edge-holding of the Helle laminated stainless. I made a maple-handled utility knife with "Turmann" blade that I use all the time for cutting leather, paper, garden chores, whatever. It is a real workhorse.

Hope this helps,

Andrew

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http://www.knifeforums.com/ubbthrea...Number=196086&page=&view=&sb=&o=&fpart=2&vc=1

Re: Helle & Karesuando [re: Blues]
_ _ _ 10/10/02 09:07 AM _

Beautiful and good knives!
I have the "Ören" from Karesuando in carbon steel and have absolutely no complaints.
I own several Helle knives, i.e. the Fjellbit, the Jaktkniv, the Harding and a early Model of the Lappland which I bought back in the early 80's. The only difference to the actual model is the shorter blade, it has 7.1" istead of now 81/2". Whilst the other models are made of laminated steel, the Lappland is made of a solid piece of Sandvik 12C27. Not the ultimate cutlery steel, but,........ heat treated to a hardness of 58 HRC I cannot say anything bad about the steel, and I gave a lot of stress to this knive, believe me.
I was curious about the steel types they use in their laminated steels and I called Svein Helle, the owner of the company, by the way,..... a very nice guy, and he told me that the outer layers are 18/8 CrNi which is not hardenable but absolutely stainless and the inner layer is made of Sandvik 12C27, hardened to a final hardness of 60 HRC! Heck of edge holding, and easy to resharpen. All in all, wonderful knives for little money and every single piece is uniqe due to a lot of work that is done by hand.
cheers,
Gerry
 
the one helleblade I had came flat-ground, razor sharp. Had some machine marks here and there on the blade. Gave it a broze bolster and stacked cuir-bollied leather handle.
Mora from Sweden is also comparable.Sparse but functional fittings.
The flat grinds make them really easy to burnish and hone, or put a convex grind on them if you wish.

Keith
 
Reference the inner core steel of Helle knives I do not think it is 12C27. Most refences list 12C27 as being made up of Carbon .58, Mn .35 and Cr 14.00. When I emailed Svein Helle back in Jan 2002 he sent me the following make up of the inner core steel: Carbon 0.67, Si: 0.70, S: 0.002, P:0.019, Mn: 0.44, Ni: 0.28, Cr: 14.25, and Mo: 0.52. The Molybdenum and Nickel both increses the strength and hardness of a steel and the extra carbon also helps. To my knowledge Helle gets its steel from a French company. Regardless of where it is from it works s advertized and I have an Odel, a Futura and a Helle-Eggen as well as an old Fjellkniven marked "Steinar & Sigmund" that i picked up at a gun show. I enjoy using all of them.
 
Hi John -- thanks for the alternative scoop/clarification on the Helle steel; you are right that whatever the mix, they're doing something right and are making knives that work in the real world. Best,

Andrew
 
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