Is the puukko still one of the best wilderness choices?

[Shotgun]

Here, here! I totally side with pitdog. I love Mors, and Mors is Mors – but that makes absolutely no sense to me. Just as I have an early BR Northstar whose blade I absolutely love – with the worst handle I've ever seen in my life. To me, it's almost as if it was purposely designed as the worst possible handle to nearly ensure one's hand will slide right onto the blade. I just don't get it. Not only Zero guard but a wide rear and smaller skinny tapering front. If anyone can point me in the direction of someone who will re handle it sanely, I'd be thrilled. Love that knife otherwise. Sorry to sidetrack thread

Try jk knives. I know he rehandles his own knives. Worth a shot.

 

[stabman]

True more recently, Lawyers at work. How many million were made like this?

Wow, paranoia about lawyers run amok, combined with an impossible to answer question.
Bravo sir, truly the internet at its finest. :thumbup:

 

[Thomas Linton]

You want questions you can answer in any objective sense, stay away from opinion questions about knives.

(Notice the sticker on the top of ladders that says you can fall from up there? Or the warning on irons not to use them hot on clothes you are wearing? Or the advice not to use your clothes dryer to dry wet pets? On topic, notice the warning on knife sharpeners that they can make knives - wait for it - SHARP! ? Your favorite hot dog vendor is not responsible. Adtendite a legisperitis. )

 

[neeman]

A puukko is a small traditional Finnish belt knife with a single curving cutting edge and a flat back. It may or may not have a fuller. It may or may not have a rhomboid blade.

Or, because this is a public knife forum, it can mean anything your heart desires.

The top one was, in its time, the official Finnish Boy Scout knife.

So Moras with their clipped blade are not technically Puukkos?

 

[Thomas Linton]

So Moras with their clipped blade are not technically Puukkos?

"Puukko" is a Finnish word. As some people in Finland think of it, MORA knives, made in Sweden, do not quite meet the definition.

But if you can call all the very different knives labeled "Scandi" by that tag, it is hardly some sort of big deal.

Show a picture and you communicate without danger of confusion, and that's why we attach the labels in the first place.

I bought a nice khukuri off ePrey for cheap when it was listed as a "pickle knife." Didn't bother me at all. Subject to review by Brother stabman, call puukot pickles" if it suits.

 

[upnorth]

True more recently, Lawyers at work. How many million were made like this?

Thank you. This example ended my own internal debate. I suppose that most folks make final decisions based on personal experience, and I can identify with using this type of fillet knife for decades. I may have touched the blade edge a few times to give a slight nick through handling, but I have never slid my hand/fingers across one of these blades in a lifetime. Besides, I am to the point now of using a hatchet for primary wood processing.

 

[neeman]

Thomas,

I am definitely not using scandi as there are a million bushcraft knives that are scandi


What I am asking is the Finish term Puukko a very specific blade shape or just a general name for a filed
So the Mora Classic that has a clip on the top of the blade might translate as a Puukko

 

[Frederick89]

No, a Mora is a Mora, a specific kind of Swedish knife born as a carpenter tool. Look at these pics, only one is a puukko, though the style is close.

 

[jmh33]

No, a Mora is a Mora, a specific kind of Swedish knife born as a carpenter tool. Look at these pics, only one is a puukko, though the style is close.

That knife on the bottom is SWEETT!! Do tell more!! John

 

[B34NS]

Thomas,

I am definitely not using scandi as there are a million bushcraft knives that are scandi


What I am asking is the Finish term Puukko a very specific blade shape or just a general name for a filed
So the Mora Classic that has a clip on the top of the blade might translate as a Puukko

Nope, no specific knife. Comes from the verb puukkottaa, to stab or cut with a knife. We use the term puukko with computer hacking now.

 

[The Zieg]

Still love the puukko designs. Traditional Finnish design knife paired with a handy axe or hatchet is perhaps the best kit for the outdoors (a small pair of shears or scissors could perhaps make it perfect for Robinson Crusoe-style survival, though even he had a gun and a dog ).

Zieg

 

[stabman]

"The puukko has also given the root for Finnish language verb puukottaa, "to stab (with a knife)" or literally "to knife"."

So much "puukoishness" to learn, so little time.
(for the benefit of the definition police, I came up with "puukoishness"...it is not an official Finnish word...yet )

 

[Thomas Linton]

It's "puukkishness." Lose the "o"; add a "k."

Plural of puukko is puukot. So they spell as strangely as we do in English. Mouse/Mice. Moose/Moose. stabman/stabmen.

(And our Italian brother is probably invoking the ricasso disqualification rule.)

 

[Woods Walker]

I tend to think so.

Don't see too many sharp, hidden tang fixed blade knives anymore.

Thought I'd kick off with a splash.

After having made som kit knives, I'm thinking of learning how to make my own puukkos, only with "better" steels and stabilized wood or synthetic handles, a kind of reinterpretation.

I would still use the scandi grind, but like a 440C blade and a yellow micarta or G-10 handle, or 1095 and stabilized olive wood with a steel ferrule and and a steel end cap suitable for light hammering.

Thoughts?

There are plenty of good knives which will work great in the woods. I tend to use either this:



Or this:



As for sharp hidden tang knives we see a bunch of them. In some ways they're hitting a new stride in terms of popularity.



As for traditional Puukko (copied your spelling, hope it's right LOL!) I don't own one. Maybe something I should to try out? That said I don't see a reason in the world why they're still not a capable knife. That's one nice thing about knives. Good ones will still be good when electronic are considered obsolete and nearly worthless in a few years.

 

[NoviceWoodsman]

There are plenty of good knives which will work great in the woods. I tend to use either this:



What knife is that in the photo?

 

[Thomas Linton]

There are plenty of good knives which will work great in the woods. I tend to use either this:



Or this:



As for sharp hidden tang knives we see a bunch of them. In some ways they're hitting a new stride in terms of popularity.



As for traditional Puukko (copied your spelling, hope it's right LOL!) I don't own one. Maybe something I should to try out? That said I don't see a reason in the world why they're still not a capable knife. That's one nice thing about knives. Good ones will still be good when electronic are considered obsolete and nearly worthless in a few years.

Your MORA is only a tiny bit of clipped edge away from a traditional puukko. Hardly worth worrying about.

As for electronics being obsolete and worthless in a few years, care to explain what that's about?

 

[Phoynix]

Your electronics are outdated every few years in consumer driven society...

Your MORA is only a tiny bit of clipped edge away from a traditional puukko. Hardly worth worrying about.

As for electronics being obsolete and worthless in a few years, care to explain what that's about?

 

[Thomas Linton]

Owned a pager once. Never owned a cellular phone or "device.

As for "consumer driven," I don't think so.