Roselli Leuku Questions

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Well my wife bought my a Roselli Leuku for our annivesray, aint she great?

I had them handled (close fitting, then expoxied in) by a knife making friend of mine, he is a Master Level in the american bladesmith society and makes his living making high end historical knives, his stuff was in both The Gangs of New York and The Pirates of the Carribean. He handled them, I am just going to shape the handles, add the pommel and peen it over....

I have heard a ton of good things about these knives, I even spoke to Dan Shechtman on the phone about the roselli leuku. He swears that it is one of the most durable, hard working knives he has ever owned and has seen more dirt time than anything of that he owns....and this guy writes about knives for a living so I think it is a pretty good endorsement....

But, being american and used to full tang or scale tang knives...I am a bit leery of the thru hidden tang....like so many of the Scandi knives have....oh yeah, she also bought me one of the Kellam pukko blades that the same gent handled for me...

I also carry a sawvivor in my big pack when I am going to be out all day and possibly overnight...I believe in going as light as possible! I also carry a smallish hatchet made in Norway, the Oyo offered by Ragnar for light chopping and driving in stakes...really more of a hawk than a hatchet...

Tell me I am being stupid and to just use the crap outta these knives like the Sammis do in Laapland...hell teh Saamis even chop small wood with these due to the weight forward design...
 
Don't worry your pretty little head.

These knives have been successfully used, and used hard, for centuries. I use hidden-tang knives of that type more than I use full-tang knives (I guess I need to get a couple more Bark Rivers... :D), and I personally find them to be just as good.

I think it's silly that people obsess over their knife's prybar capabilities, and that companies overbuild their knives so that you could lift a hippo with 'em, or pry open a bank vault.

A good quality hidden-tang knife like your Leuku will be strong enough for any task you are capable of (and it will probably cut better than most other knives you'll ever own... imagine that, a knife designed to cut!).

Peace.
 
puukkoman said:
I think it's silly that people obsess over their knife's prybar capabilities ...
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Prying isn't a concern for partial tangs, you can't readily load the tang, you will break the blade on those single bevel blades long before the handle is flexed significantly. What is a concern is impacts, specifically hammering on the butt will crack the handles readily :

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3422201&postcount=7

Some people like this ability in a knife, Peter H. from Fallkniven for example builds his knives to allow this as he uses point first hammering to fell large wood.

-Cliff
 
If you want to develop a sense of confidence with your new blade, it seems to me that taking it out on a few day hikes or puttering in the yard and using the hell out of it will instill more confidence in time than any horde of us Forumites talkin' it up and sayin' how great the hidden tangs are.

That being said, I can't imagine any true difficulties you'd encounter using it. those things, Khukuris, and alot of older traditional knives have been using hidden tangs for more than a few years, with never a "problem" truly developing with them.

The latest-greatest-blacktical-tactical-hack 'em-all knives currently being marketed are largely a solution to a problem that has yet to develop.
 
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