Puukos?

Jaeger

Jaeger

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Does anyone here know anything about Finnish Puuko style knives? I acquired one last night and would like to learn more about it.

It is about 8.75" OAL with a 4.25" blade. The handle is made of a very nicely figured piece of burled birch.The bolster and the buttcap appear to be silver with some diamond and triangular patterns hand engraved on them. It has a stick tang which is peened at the end just like our khukuris. It even has a diamond shaped keeper on the buttcap. On the right side of the blade, just above the bolster it has "SLETTEMO HOL" stamped into the blade. It came with a hand tooled, brown leather sheith. The leather is very stiff and holds its shape. It holds the knife in place securely without the use of straps. (although the previous owner added a leather thong that slips over the portion of the tang that protrudes from the buttcap. Sort of like a hammer thong on a single action revolver holster)

It's very comrtable in the hand, takes a hell of an edge and should make a great hunting,fishing, woods companion.

[This message has been edited by Jaeger (edited 04-10-2001).]
 
Well, my five minutes of online investigation seem to indicate that SLETTEMO is a Norwegian surname and that HOL refers to a location within Norway.

The following entry was found using Google which led to the above conclusion:

lehmann - gjestebok
... They were baptised and confirmed at Hol Gamle Kyrkje, Hallingdal. My mother's cousin ... ti13a95-0354.dialup.online.no)
(Knut Slettemo m fam - kingknut@online.no) ...
home.enitel.no/lehmann/gjestebok/ - 99k - Cached - Similar pages

Okay, the rest is up to you.
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Blues

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Very timely questin, Jaeger! I like the puukko and leuku almost as much as the khukuri. The above links are nice, and also try www.roselli.fi and www.brisa.fi. The Brisa website has many stupendous pics of custom puukkos, in addition to kinves and everything to make your own.

There is also a new thread on the European Knife Commumity forum about puukkos.

Glad to serve....Dan
 
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Jaeger I really don't know anything about these little knives except that they were designed and used and evolved from a people, Sammi People, that are much like my own.
They are a nomad race that survives a very bitter world with their reindeer.
One reason the knives are usually so small is that the steel came very dear and hard to come by to the Sammi.
And they learned many many years ago that a big knife wasn't always the best for what they used them for.
The little knives are usually a single edge bevel that's incredibely sharp and the handle is designed so that when the knife is layed down the top of the handle will always place the edge off the surface it's layed on to protect that edge.
The single edge bevel is the absolute best fr push cutting and carving the hard woods the Sammi use for sled runners and the like.

And I know that I am very fond of them as well.
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Jaeger I really don't know anything about these little knives except that they were designed and used and evolved from a people, Sammi People, that are much like my own.
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Must be the Sammikee Nation!!!
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Blues

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Or maybe the Sammioux Nation since they used to follow the Reindeer like the Sioux followed the Buffalo before the Reindeer were domesticated.
I would like to see anyone domesticate a Buffalo for long. They're fine when they're small, but when one gets some age lookout!!!
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nd even the cows grow horns and get mean.
An aquantaince that works at Woolaroc Museum and lives in a Tipi from May until September had a horse gored out from under him one year.
They're very unpredictable animals.
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And you're safe from arrows Bro.
The Warclub and then the Tomahawk were the favored weapons of the Tsalagi.
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"VEGETARIAN".............
Indin word for lousy hunter.
 
In that case, I'm gettin' the puukko outtahere while the gettin's good!
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Blues

(Do do that puukko that you do so well)



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One of the most succinct news items I've ever read was one of the footnotes on "Headline News" last year:
"Gored by pet buffalo, SD man holds barbeque".
 
Thanks for help, Blues, and all.

Just remembered once I was riding a motorcycle in the Black Hills area, came over a hill and right into a herd of buffalo crossing the road. Quick U-turn, back to the top of the hill, wait for the herd to cross and get a safe distance from the road and then proceed -- keeping an eye out for fresh dung. It can be a real problem for bikers -- slick as ice.

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[This message has been edited by Bill Martino (edited 04-11-2001).]
 
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Fresh Buffaler poop indeed!!!!
I had cuzins in Arkansas that used to run and see who could get their bare feet in the fresh goose poop first!!!
That was one of their favorite summer games.
What grossed me out was the pushin and shovin with the result of someone falling into the fresh pile.
They were always laughed at and made big fun of.
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One of the `good old days' things I don't miss.
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A gross trivial fact.... An average goose poops every 8 minutes.
I found that out when the Choctaw Nation was considering hosting some 800 Canadian Geese and there were concerns about the pollution the geese cause.
No wonder the Menominee wild rice pattie were so fertile.
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Walosi I remember reading about that Bar-B-Que!!!!
And I bet the bufferlo wasn't cut up with no puukko either.
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When I was riding in the Death Valley area a lot I had to watch there for the burro dung on the roads. Places like Rattlesnake gultch with lots of sharp turns would be ver hazardous because of the sharp blind turns and fress burro dung. The monument had somewhere between 4 to 6 thousand burros at that time -- leftovers from the single blanket burro prospectors like Shorty Harris.

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