No love for the puukko?

Lapp_Dance

Lapp_Dance

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I browsed through the thread titles for the Tradtional section, and didn't see anything pointing me in the direction of some classic puukko's. Show me what ya got! Also, if I'm just looking for a no-nonsense classic, is Ragnar's a good place to look?
 
Ragweed Forge is a good place to look for anything from the most basic moras to quite nice, high quality puukkos. Have a look at the various brands. Also look at some Kellam puukkos (http://www.kellamknives.com/index.php?main_page=index&zenid=54a28cfba41cf23c894f1da8d235724f), which are said to be very nice, and look at some Woodsknife puukkos at Cloudberry Market (http://www.cloudberrymarket.com/servlet/the-PUUKKO-KNIVES-FINLAND-cln-Woodsknife/Categories). I have one, and it is high quality. The handle is extremely comfortable, the blade is good, and the sheath is quite nice.

Also, Ragweed Forge has a decent selection of just puukko blades (http://ragweedforge.com/BladeCatalog.html), I'd suggest picking one up, putting your own handle on, and making your own sheath if you're looking for a bit more of an involved experience. It's not terribly hard to do, and it's cheap as well. If you decide to try it out, there's two pages of links to various tutorials here: http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/812415/tp/2/ and a quite good guide for putting on your own handle here: http://ragweedforge.com/mount.html (make sure to look at the links at the bottom of the page) and for making your own sheath here: http://ragweedforge.com/sheath.html.

There's also a dedicated Scandinavian forum which has tons of info on puukkos (make sure to check out the gallery): http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showforum.php?fid/124/

Here's a picture of a Woodsknife puukko I own:

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I'm sending it off to Tom Krein to get it reground to 1/16" thick, and I'm having a full flat grind put on it (BLASPHEMY!). Then I'm having it sent down to JRE Leather to get a pocket sheath made for it. I also took some steel wool the to handle to smooth it out. Since the handle is so nicely contoured, a smoother surface still allows a very solid grip, even when slightly wet, and I think it feels much nicer this way.
 
We talk more about the puukko and similar knives in the Wilderness & Survival Skills forum.
 
Brutus013 said:
Ragweed Forge is a good place to look for anything from the most basic moras to quite nice, high quality puukkos. Have a look at the various brands. Also look at some Kellam puukkos (http://www.kellamknives.com/index.php?main_page=index&zenid=54a28cfba41cf23c894f1da8d235724f), which are said to be very nice, and look at some Woodsknife puukkos at Cloudberry Market (http://www.cloudberrymarket.com/servlet/the-PUUKKO-KNIVES-FINLAND-cln-Woodsknife/Categories). I have one, and it is high quality. The handle is extremely comfortable, the blade is good, and the sheath is quite nice.

Also, Ragweed Forge has a decent selection of just puukko blades (http://ragweedforge.com/BladeCatalog.html), I'd suggest picking one up, putting your own handle on, and making your own sheath if you're looking for a bit more of an involved experience. It's not terribly hard to do, and it's cheap as well. If you decide to try it out, there's two pages of links to various tutorials here: http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/812415/tp/2/ and a quite good guide for putting on your own handle here: http://ragweedforge.com/mount.html (make sure to look at the links at the bottom of the page) and for making your own sheath here: http://ragweedforge.com/sheath.html.

There's also a dedicated Scandinavian forum which has tons of info on puukkos (make sure to check out the gallery): http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showforum.php?fid/124/

Here's a picture of a Woodsknife puukko I own:

2811674962_4f7526efeb_b.jpg


I'm sending it off to Tom Krein to get it reground to 1/16" thick, and I'm having a full flat grind put on it (BLASPHEMY!). Then I'm having it sent down to JRE Leather to get a pocket sheath made for it. I also took some steel wool the to handle to smooth it out. Since the handle is so nicely contoured, a smoother surface still allows a very solid grip, even when slightly wet, and I think it feels much nicer this way.
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Thank you for those links. Now I have more to read whilst wasting some time! I think I found a couple of those Woodsknives on a popular auction site for a decent price.

Esav Benyamin said:
We talk more about the puukko and similar knives in the Wilderness & Survival Skills forum.
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I was debating on putting this thread in the Traditional forum, or the WSS house. I guessed incorrectly.
 
Rich S said:
Here''s a link to my puukko and Nordic knives collection. Taken about 2007, have added
about 75 more since then. Scandi blades rule!

http://home.earthlink.net/~rsblade/nordic.htm

Rich
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very impressive collection. I've got a mind to start my own, albeit much smaller scale. I most certainly intend to get a nice one to attach to my everyday bag.

in case you couldn't tell, my username is part of my real world name, which comes from that region of the world. I learned that it was used at one point as a dispairaging term of sorts, to describe immigrant peoples and especially the clothing they wore.
 
I managed to get a Woodsknife "Everyday" version for $44 total, and after shopping around, I think I did pretty good. I'll get some pictures when it shows up, it's coming from Finland!
 
Rich, nice colektion of barrelknifes.

I see you find some scandinavian knifes. As it can bee from long distans I dont see the typical knifes we actually carry for hunt and outdoors but moore of the tourist, exibition ones. Seems you find everything from good produktion to less worked kustoms and tourist shop junk. I dont see anything of the extraordinary work that being done here. Even puckos stretch from low quality junk through good/solid produktion to low, middle and exilent klass of custom. But if you want a Tore Sunna samiknife or knivjocke silwerknife you have to wait the same amount of time as for mabye a Bose or Menefe slipjoint.

Bosse
 
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