Marttiini Kateva

[Standard22]

I have recently acquired this knife and do know much about it. Are any of you familiar with these? I couldn’t see the Kateva on their site but saw the Handy that looks similar.

 

[Frankki]

Kätevä is Finnish for handy, as in "handy to have around". Martiini have been making them since the 1970's, in essence being a handy little puukko for getting stuff done whenever and wherever you need a knife.

The design has changed, though, while still retaining the name. The classic Kätevä, still found in many, many, many toolboxes and cottage shelves in Finland had a symmetric sheath and finger cutouts on both the edge and spine side of the handle. Also made with a bottle opener slot on the spine, thus making it even handier!

 

[kobold]

Kätevä is Finnish for handy, as in "handy to have around". Martiini have been making them since the 1970's, in essence being a handy little puukko for getting stuff done whenever and wherever you need a knife.

The design has changed, though, while still retaining the name. The classic Kätevä, still found in many, many, many toolboxes and cottage shelves in Finland had a symmetric sheath and finger cutouts on both the edge and spine side of the handle. Also made with a bottle opener slot on the spine, thus making it even handier!

It was my first fixed blade purchase. The OG design.

 

[Standard22]

What’s OG?

 

[Kbrasmodeler]

What’s OG?

I'm showing my age, but it stands for "Original Gangsta". He means he had the original version of the knife.

 

[Standard22]

Meaning mine is a newer version?

 

[Frankki]

Somewhat newer version, yes. If you look at search results for Marttiini Kätevä, you'll notice that the sheath is nowadays a side-stitched affair instead of the back-stitched version with salmon-tail (the triangular leather bit at the end). So yours is slightly different than the ones sold now, yet the redesigned model. Blade length and shape are pretty much the same.

 

[Standard22]

Good to know