Preface: Awhile back I saw a review here about a Lapin Puukko hunting knife and thought the reviewer seemed a bit biased and unjust towards the LP. So I wanted to do my own take on Lapin Puukko, in a more positive light.
IIRC, I purchased the Lapin Puukko skinner back in January/2011 from Paul over at Bushcraft Canada. Great guy to deal with, and has treated me more than fair. Very highly recommended dealer.
When I first noticed the knife on Paul's webpage, I wasn't interested when I looked at the photo he had of it. But seeing that he made a video showing all the Lapin Puukko stock, I decided to checked em out. And of course immediately fell in love with the fat-wide edge skinner model. It just looked wicked. Shiny and sharp.
Upon arrival it was pretty much as expected. Not as scary sharp as I had hoped, but no biggy. The handle was every bit as comfy as Paul had stated it would be in his video. The only thing I disliked was the slipperiness of it. The type of wood used would not have been my first choice. Or at least, not without some aggressive texturing added for grip. All in all, not a huge issue. Just less than ideal.
As the other reviewer had mentioned in his review, the knife scale did rub off rather easily, so I can certainly understand that being a complaint. I took care of that by sanding mine off with 2000 grit sandpaper, so it was never an issue for me. I left just enough scale on to give it that sexy forged look. I thought the knife looked pretty sweet at that point.
FINALLY the sun was out, all bright and warm... in the air tho was a cold wind. And that cold wind taunted me. Whispering nasty things about testes shriveling...But I would not be stopped this day, my friends. Unperturbed, I set down my D-SLR and chose my intended victim for the day's experiment....
---INTERMISSION---
First, I did a quick equipment check:
Look, some frozen water....
Previous days violence to keep the audience from quickly losing interest...
The Star
The Star again....just in case you blinked
The Star and today's hapless victim
BM 581 Barrage and Lapin Puukko skinner, size comparison
Some slicing to start off
Soon developed into some sorta pointy apparatus thingy
When in Rome......
Close up (thank God for the caption, you'd never have figured that out)
You notice this is rather similar to yesterday's photo shoot, except today everything's bigger ???
The skinner is too light to hack through this knot, need to find a baton
Two broken batons later, got this far through...
Broken Batons. Aren't they cute ?
Got myself a REAL baton and, whal-la!
Hey..I know your sister!
And like that, it was gone....
Mmmm pointy
Spear-wannabe
Better throw second time.
Small wound from unsuccessfully trying to throw the knife into the board
Why toss it when you can simply stab it in ?
Damage INC.
So there you have it. It's a good knife. I like it. Holds a good edge. Decently tough too. I threw it at the board about 5 times, and briefly beat the crap out of it with 3 batons. Great at making feather sticks. I don't think you need photos to prove that as it's pretty obvious just looking at it. That and I never made any feather sticks. I was feeling a little lazy.
IIRC, I purchased the Lapin Puukko skinner back in January/2011 from Paul over at Bushcraft Canada. Great guy to deal with, and has treated me more than fair. Very highly recommended dealer.
When I first noticed the knife on Paul's webpage, I wasn't interested when I looked at the photo he had of it. But seeing that he made a video showing all the Lapin Puukko stock, I decided to checked em out. And of course immediately fell in love with the fat-wide edge skinner model. It just looked wicked. Shiny and sharp.
Upon arrival it was pretty much as expected. Not as scary sharp as I had hoped, but no biggy. The handle was every bit as comfy as Paul had stated it would be in his video. The only thing I disliked was the slipperiness of it. The type of wood used would not have been my first choice. Or at least, not without some aggressive texturing added for grip. All in all, not a huge issue. Just less than ideal.
As the other reviewer had mentioned in his review, the knife scale did rub off rather easily, so I can certainly understand that being a complaint. I took care of that by sanding mine off with 2000 grit sandpaper, so it was never an issue for me. I left just enough scale on to give it that sexy forged look. I thought the knife looked pretty sweet at that point.
FINALLY the sun was out, all bright and warm... in the air tho was a cold wind. And that cold wind taunted me. Whispering nasty things about testes shriveling...But I would not be stopped this day, my friends. Unperturbed, I set down my D-SLR and chose my intended victim for the day's experiment....
---INTERMISSION---
First, I did a quick equipment check:
Look, some frozen water....
Previous days violence to keep the audience from quickly losing interest...
The Star
The Star again....just in case you blinked
The Star and today's hapless victim
BM 581 Barrage and Lapin Puukko skinner, size comparison
Some slicing to start off
Soon developed into some sorta pointy apparatus thingy
When in Rome......
Close up (thank God for the caption, you'd never have figured that out)
You notice this is rather similar to yesterday's photo shoot, except today everything's bigger ???
The skinner is too light to hack through this knot, need to find a baton
Two broken batons later, got this far through...
Broken Batons. Aren't they cute ?
Got myself a REAL baton and, whal-la!
Hey..I know your sister!
And like that, it was gone....
Mmmm pointy
Spear-wannabe
Better throw second time.
Small wound from unsuccessfully trying to throw the knife into the board
Why toss it when you can simply stab it in ?
Damage INC.
So there you have it. It's a good knife. I like it. Holds a good edge. Decently tough too. I threw it at the board about 5 times, and briefly beat the crap out of it with 3 batons. Great at making feather sticks. I don't think you need photos to prove that as it's pretty obvious just looking at it. That and I never made any feather sticks. I was feeling a little lazy.
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