My latest puukko

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h3n4

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I don't know how to post in the knife maker's forums, so I guess this is my only place to post my latest creation.

This puukko is made of a Lauri carbon steel blade, that I removed of the black forge-coat-stuff. I fileworked the spine and gave it a new edge angle. The bolster is brass, and the handle is teak, juniper, teak again and the pommel is curly birch. I really like this one, quickly made though, so it isn't perfect. Seems like I got some room for improvement. Blade is 77mm (3") and the OAL is 184mm. Sorry for the horrible pictures.

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Very nice... was it a kit? Where did you order the blade? I've been tempted to put one together myself.
 
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It wasn't a kit, all the pieces have some sort of history to me. The blade I ordered from www.puukot.fi, but brisa.fi would be a good alternative too. I'm going to make another as a gift for my GF. Any ideas for improvement?
 
Nice knife. I love those Pukko styled knives. Might have to attempt to make one myself someday.
 
Simply Beautiful.

Did you use hand tools or power tools to fix the handle? Tell us a bit about how you made it.
 
I used mostly hand tools, but for the roughest shaping I used an angle grinder with a coarse sanding disc. I filed the shape and sanded smooth with sandpaper. I drilled the tang hole using a long drill: I wiggled the drill in the hole until the tang fit like I wanted it to. I used two-part-epoxy to glue all pieces together. Making one of these things is really very simple, just need to have some patience to make the handle how you like it.
 
Thanks h3n4 for sharing. I've done a few with similar tools except the angle grinder. I've used a larger knife as a draw knife to do my rough shaping before moving to hand-sanding.

Do you have any tricks to keep the tang hole absolutely straight? I use the same technique of drilling and then wiggling the drill bit until the hole is the right size for the tang but I've sometimes end up a little off centre.Any suggestions? Thanks.

And great work with the knife -- it looks really good.
 
The knife looks great, don't rush , it is exiting when your about to finish a knife and it's easy to. There is something called "bedding" the tang to get a good straight fit . if the hole is slightly oversized you can - coat the tang with wax-fill the hole with epoxy-set tang in hole-wait till almost dry-pull the tang out-let fully dry-reglue and finish as usual.
 
Thanks for the tip about bedding Mark -- that's probably what I needed to do to fix my problem.
 
Sometimes my tang-holes turn out off-center so I just shape my handle accordingly "off-center". Usually I drill the first long tang-hole in my lathe to get it straight, and then using a hand drill enlarge the hole to my needs.
 
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