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Hi everyone,
today I want to test more the Lemminkainen MSP – Micarta Survival Puukko, the knife I designed in collaboration with the finnish knifemaker S. Honkilahti
Let’s start with some batoning on seasoned wood (80mm diameter roughly)
Not bad at all, the knife works well.
Now, I want to made some feathers, for a small camp fire. To light the fire I will use the firesteel dedicated section on the blade spine. The Lemminkainen MSP has a blade 5mm thick to improve his toughness, anyway we want feathers really thin, or the firesteel will not ignite them. One of the pics below show a small trick that you may use to facilitate the ignition: you need to slowly scrape off some metal powder from the firesteel at the base of the feathers, then the sparks will ignite the firesteel powder. Anyway, I will not use that “trick” this time, and will ignite directly the wood’s feathers
Here the video about the fire ignition using the firesteel and the dedicated area on the Lemminkainen spine blade (from sec. 40)
Lemminkainen MSP fire - YouTube
Now, I want to test the blade’s point, particularly the point’s endurance when lateral torsion forces are applied on it. So, I make an hole on this pine seasoned board, 30mm thick. Please don’t pay attention to the way I done that, I just wanted to realize an hole on the wood like a person in a emergency situation, without care or delicacy
Here, the video of the test above (from sec. 24)
Lemminkainen MSP making hole in the wood's board - YouTube
Ciao,
Alfredo
today I want to test more the Lemminkainen MSP – Micarta Survival Puukko, the knife I designed in collaboration with the finnish knifemaker S. Honkilahti
Let’s start with some batoning on seasoned wood (80mm diameter roughly)
Not bad at all, the knife works well.
Now, I want to made some feathers, for a small camp fire. To light the fire I will use the firesteel dedicated section on the blade spine. The Lemminkainen MSP has a blade 5mm thick to improve his toughness, anyway we want feathers really thin, or the firesteel will not ignite them. One of the pics below show a small trick that you may use to facilitate the ignition: you need to slowly scrape off some metal powder from the firesteel at the base of the feathers, then the sparks will ignite the firesteel powder. Anyway, I will not use that “trick” this time, and will ignite directly the wood’s feathers
Here the video about the fire ignition using the firesteel and the dedicated area on the Lemminkainen spine blade (from sec. 40)
Lemminkainen MSP fire - YouTube
Now, I want to test the blade’s point, particularly the point’s endurance when lateral torsion forces are applied on it. So, I make an hole on this pine seasoned board, 30mm thick. Please don’t pay attention to the way I done that, I just wanted to realize an hole on the wood like a person in a emergency situation, without care or delicacy
Here, the video of the test above (from sec. 24)
Lemminkainen MSP making hole in the wood's board - YouTube
Ciao,
Alfredo
just shot an email to Saku Honkilahti, I guess he will be happy to make one Lemminkainen for you