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Neo

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What's the name of the knife with the leather handle?
It's beautifull

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Neo - You are correct. The Stalker is my favorite of the mid sized hunting line from ROS Arms. I have one with a Birch Bark handle and one with a Leather handle - a great Woodsman's knife.

The thing I noticed about mine is that though you can certainly tell they are the same model there are slight differences;

- The handle on the Leather one is slightly longer
- One blade is slightly fatter/wider than the other

These varying characteristics show that these really are Hand Made knives - one at a time.
 
I've got two Messer2 in birch bark, they are very alike in dimensions.
It's imho the perfect knife
Mine have the exact dimension like stated on the website.
But when I look to the picture of the messer-2 in leather, it seems it has indeed a bit longer and narrower blade.
If this is really the case I might buy a leather one :)

I do like the stalker also
However the fry-2 also seems exceptional versatile.
Is the blade thickness correct.
I see the fry-2 being mentioned as 2.2mm and 3mm
The fry reminds me of a mora/puukko, maybe I could put a scandi grind on it?

In the first picture the blade of the Stalker looks very nice, it almost looks like it has a false edge.
 
Neo said:
I've got two Messer2 in birch bark, they are very alike in dimensions.
It's imho the perfect knife
Mine have the exact dimension like stated on the website.
But when I look to the picture of the messer-2 in leather, it seems it has indeed a bit longer and narrower blade. If this is really the case I might buy a leather one :)

I do like the stalker also

However the fry-2 also seems exceptional versatile.
Is the blade thickness correct. I see the fry-2 being mentioned as 2.2mm and 3mm The fry reminds me of a mora/puukko, maybe I could put a scandi grind on it?

In the first picture the blade of the Stalker looks very nice, it almost looks like it has a false edge.
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The Messer 2 was one of the knives recently used in the Passaround, I liked the feel of that one and it had a thick blade steel.

I just measured both my Stalkers - they have a thickness of 2.3mm and 2.5mm respectively with the Leather handled one being slightly thicker. They don't have a false edge but the way they are ground it definately can fool you.

There is a model on the ROS Arms Russian website that I have emailed the owner about, it looks very similiar to the Stalker but it does have a false grind. If I hear back on what the Model is called I will let you know.

The Fry is a great looking design, wish I had one that I could verify the blade thickness for you. It may be that it can be ordered in a 2.3 or 3mm blade steel - but I don't know.

Got any pics of your Messer?
 
No pictures sorry, I have to buy a new camera.
It looks kinda like this one (without the gold colour), but you probably know that.
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2.3 or 2.5mm is more than thick enough for most knife use.
The performance vastly improves with thinner stock.
I'm waiting on some New Zeeland Svord knives I ordered.
They have about the same thickness, it will be good users.

I also love the birch bark.
Besides the messer2 I have a Veikko Hakkarainen and a Jukka Hankala Lastu in birch bark.
It has a nice warm feeling, grippy, extreme light and very strong.
 
I just ordered one with him.
I liked the blade shape of the lastu more than the tommi
http://www.hankala.com/englanti/front_page.htm

I believe in summer he works mostly on his farm and in winter he mostly makes his knives and blades.
I ordered in autumn and got it in spring, it's very nice, have to get a camera :)
 
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