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Swedish_Steel

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So I'm assuming this is the place to post member presentations in. I have been lurking for quite a while and I have made a couple of (snide) remarks in a few threads so I thought that it would be a good thing to make a presentation of my self. :) I am a 30 year old guy currently studying to become an archaeologist at the university of Umeå. I am proud to be a Swede :cheerful: and a real patriot, and as such I have a fondness for knives made in Sweden, particularly folders made in the city of Eskilstuna. I only have a few though, a couple that are interesting because they are worthless (??) and a few really good ones. These will be presented in this thread in a while. I also have a number of knives made in other places ;). I will present the knives I use on a day-to-day basis here, in the order that I remember them :foot:, along with a bunch of the stuff that I have accumulated over the years. Also, I think I will post a few photos of my various misadventures in the swedish forests in this thread.
 
To start this thread off, this is a picture of a knife my grandfather made a handle and sheath for (mora blade). The butt end is missing, but this is an old knife and you could always say that the spike sticking out is for CRUSHING SKULLS!!!!1! Bad ass grandpa. :P Really, this knife resides in my older sisters tool-kit. What a disgrace.


Edit/ Yeah, I suck at photography...
 
Thanks for the welcomes! Man, have I've been putting off posting for a while... I have been busy with studies, women and drinking my sanity away in a cottage deep in the swedish forests. :p Mostly everything I know about these knives come from a book by Arne Marmér titled "Knivar från Eskilstuna" (Knives from Eskilstuna). :) First off a pair of badly made knives most probably made in the period after WWII, when a lot of people looking for fast money made cheap copies of the old makers more popular knives. These knives are rarely stamped with a knifemakers mark but instead use a stamp just reading "Eskilstuna".




The yellow one has what I believe is cowhorn scales and the black one seems to have some sort of ebony. Actually really nice models sometimes called "bond-förargaren" (roughly "the peasant enrager"). Wierd nick-name. The knives have thin sheet-metal bolsters. The model is generally known as "mod.25".
 
Swedish_Steel said:
And here is the cabin. Pic is from last year, but the place rarely changes appearance. :P
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That is a beautiful spot. Photos like this make me wish I lived in a place where I can just go out, and jump in a small boat or kayak and cruise across the lake. :thumbup: the beauty of nature is never tiring. Nice knives too.
 
RevDevil said:
That is a beautiful spot. Photos like this make me wish I lived in a place where I can just go out, and jump in a small boat or kayak and cruise across the lake. :thumbup: the beauty of nature is never tiring. Nice knives too.
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Thanks! It doesn't belong to me but to a dear friend of mine. We try to go there at least a couple of times every year. :) The lake is a lot larger than it appears in the picture and I should really call it a swamp instead of a lake, not because it is a swamp in the muddy, boggy sense, but rather because lakes are not called "lakes" in northern Sweden. :p This is something all Swedish members should recognize, that as you travel north (as if someone would want to travel south...) sjöar (lakes) becomes träsk (swamps) regardless of boggyness. :D

Pic from the front porch one morning.


More knives!

These are a pair of really good users. Both are slip-joints by EKA, with bubinga scales. The filleting knife has a stainless blade and the short one (model swede 45) has a coated carbon steel blade. I use the filleting knife frequently in summer, when I am fishing. :)
 
Thank you for beautiful photographs of the cabin and the frozen lake. My city was built on a frozen swamp in the muddy, boggy sense, and my house stands upon a ridge which was once the only way through the morass. Your winter scenery is very homelike to me, lacking only our photochemical smog.

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Swedish_Steel said:
Thanks! It doesn't belong to me but to a dear friend of mine. We try to go there at least a couple of times every year. :) The lake is a lot larger than it appears in the picture and I should really call it a swamp instead of a lake, not because it is a swamp in the muddy, boggy sense, but rather because lakes are not called "lakes" in northern Sweden. :p This is something all Swedish members should recognize, that as you travel north (as if someone would want to travel south...) sjöar (lakes) becomes träsk (swamps) regardless of boggyness. :D

Pic from the front porch one morning.


More knives!

These are a pair of really good users. Both are slip-joints by EKA, with bubinga scales. The filleting knife has a stainless blade and the short one (model swede 45) has a coated carbon steel blade. I use the filleting knife frequently in summer, when I am fishing. :)
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Thanks for the pics and the info, always cool to leaern the language intricacies of the land. In Arizona, we call our lakes puddles. Why you ask? Becaus ethey are usually as big as puddles. :D lol
 
Well, time is ripe for another long overdue addition to this thread. :eek:

How about a real rarity here in Sweden, and a gem of a knife in my own opinion. The seldom seen EKA 110, wich I believe was introduced in 1992. Original leather sheath, which I believe is still produced for a few models. My knife comes complete with VME-markings, that is Volvos brand for heavy machinery. Fancy that. :p This one is coated carbon steel, I'm guessing 1095-ish and can be flicked out or plucked out once the button has been depressed. Also made with uncoated stainless steel.




This knife with its lightweight plastic scales and drop-point blade reminds me of my current favorit EDC, namely the good old Benchmade Griptilian! I just recently got my grip, and I am really bummed that the custom shop wold not ship to Sweden, at least not when I ordered mine. I wanted one in blue and yellow. :D Anyhow, the EKA 110 is a bit smaller than the grip and the overall shape suggests that it would make an excellent bushcraft-knife if made fixed and perhaps slightly larger, if one would be interested in that sort of thing.

And how about one of the fancier mora-knives, a small knife with rosewood handle, laminated steel and brass fittings. I think this model is still in production and has been so at least since the seventies. Sorry about the fuzzy picture, I will try and get better ones in the future. :foot: At least I can make out the lamination-line, as it starts in the middle of the grind. The slightly darker coloration towards the edge.



Recently at a local flea-market I scored a really crummy Emil Voos stag-handled "bowie" or large-ish knife which I intend to restore. Got it for 90 Swedish crowns so that is like 14 bucks for you yanks. I doubt it will replace my regular camping-knife, but I like to change it up now and again. :D
 
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