Knifetales from my forestvillage.

DennisStrickland said:
so much wisdom told in a humbling fashion. i'm embarassed by the relative wealth we experienced growing up. my folks were'nt poor but if we wanted to see a movie we walked along the roadways picking up soda bottles to sell for 2 cents & the pictures were only 12 cents admission. bosse grew up in a true 1900 american environment, the big difference was our opportunities were greatly vaster. as much as we wish for simpler times life moves only forward & these wonderful experiences are only memories now. thanks for relaying the richness of your growing up.--dennis
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Thank you dennis for the ankedot from your youth.
We sometimes also went to the movies, most often once every secound year to se the new Walt Disney films, I remember the jungle book, aristocats and bernhard and bianka. they always had their premiers at cristmus time so it was a 200 km adventure in the freezing cold midwinter in our two stroke SAAB.
There were also cinemaevenings in a bigger village some 25 km from home. Mostly they showed westerns and the one I remember best is the one about Dawy Crocket and how he travelled to Alamo and met Bowie. I was a knifenerd even at young age so I remember the big knifes they used.
I think there is opportunitys for us even today to feel and even live the simple life, but it isnt given us without a choise anymore. Also today there are a contradiktion between simple life with few stressers and the ability to do all the modern things that makes life easy. I use my free will to travel short journys to my cabins and live there for longer times. This also means that I more than a few times has shoosen not to by knifes I badly wanted because I know that the money in the end gives me one week more in the moosehunt using the knifes I already have.

Bosse
 
Bosse, what a great storyteller you are....I can almost hear you speak (with accent) in my head as I read your posts. I'm having a knifemaker friend make me a medium sized fixed blade based on the dimensions of the mora knife. I think the combination of a thick, ergonomic handle and a thin scandi ground blade make for the best utility knife for just about everything. I look forward to more of your time-traveling posts :)
 
NirreBosse said:
They dont have to be pretty tools, just of good quality. Its the knife extending the hand, and the hand and head holding the knowledge, that is the important thing when using a tool.
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Quoted for truth.

One of the most insightful and accurate ideas I've ever seen expressed on these forums.

Awesome Thread!
 
macmiddlebrooks said:
Bosse, what a great storyteller you are....I can almost hear you speak (with accent) in my head as I read your posts. I'm having a knifemaker friend make me a medium sized fixed blade based on the dimensions of the mora knife. I think the combination of a thick, ergonomic handle and a thin scandi ground blade make for the best utility knife for just about everything. I look forward to more of your time-traveling posts :)
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It would be nice to see it.

The birch handle mora is so in our early industrial period. But here in sweden its often looked upon as to simple. Most beautiful knifes made here in Sweden nowadays has their influenses from sami or more old traditional knifemodells. The mora is perfectly designed to be easy to massproduse in a early industrial factory. The goal was to make a economic and usable tool for the masses. Time hade prooved that design to be very useful and the modell existed in sweden and dalarna also long before the mass production ages.

Bosse
 
My favorite knife is an old laminated mora with a birch handle that I inherited from my grandfather. Thank you for sharing the memories.
 
Very good stories and recollections. Thank you for posting them. Reminds many here I'm sure of working grandads knife tales and usage here in the USA.
Paul
 
knarfeng said:
Thanks for the posts. I spend a fair amount of time in the General Forum. It never ceases to amaze me how many posters there have no idea that that you don't have to have a fancy knife to take care of your everyday needs.
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Amen, brother!
 
Add me to the list of the ones loving this thread...I come from Southern Europe but in my trips I did take a glimpse of the places Bosse tells about, and of the culture those stories belong to, and that makes me love these stories even more.
As for fancy knives...I think most people makes some confusion between having a "better" knife and actually needing one. My ancestors wandered for days with their sheeps and all they ever needed was a resolza
There's nothing bad or wrong in collecting fancy knives. It's just that we shouldn't pretend we really need them, just as we don't need a Ferrari to go to work or a laser beam to kill mosquitoes. If we like to have them, it's another story, and it is enough of a reason to have them, without having to add fancy needs. Sounds like when ym wife tries to convince me she "needs" the 30th pair of shoes...I prefer her to tell me she just likes them.
By the way...I'm thinking of starting another "knifetales" thread about traditions and folklore on knives...do u think something good could come out of it? Yes I know, there's just one way to find out....
Fausto
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not to derail this thead,

quattromorri, i would LOVE to read about different knives from different parts of the world. These stories are fascinating readiing as it is, but when you can learn something about a new culture or a knife from a new culture it just makes it better.
 
Quattromori, I would love to hear some of your knifetales.

I have been in Kreta a couple of times and have imagined being a cheepshearder in the mountains cutting a branch of a buch holding the mosqitous away while looking at the sheaps eating grass in the slopes of the white mountains, or cutting a woodpipe to call some birds.

Bosse
 
Glad u guys like the idea...so I'm starting a new thread on knives and traditions and will leave this one to Bosse's stories or any other story like this, so we can keep the topics separated and not mess up too much. :)
By the way, I haven't been to Crete myself (only to southern Greece) but I assume it's not too different from here...unless for the fact we have more sheeps :p and we are even more proud of our homeland (my nick on this forum is the name of our flag tho)
Fausto :cool:
 
Bosse,

Here's a pic of the knife I mentioned to you previously. I haven't received it yet, so no review, but I believe it will do some work nicely. Thanks again for your wonderful stories.

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