The evolution of Leuku

Hawgorn:

If you could indulge me as well; no. 2 pic knife that looks like a combat model with the "eye" on the handle and no. 15 with the sweet, "fish" wide-belly and red handle?

Thanks!
 
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Christof, the fish knife is by Finnish designer Stefan Lindfors. Google his other "functional" design the Serpent. Warning, NSFW ;)

untamed, sure, do you have email? The originals are too big for my photobucket account.
 
moonwilson said:
Very, very cool! Thanks for sharing! I've been thinking about picking up a leuku lately, this thread just makes me want one more!

On a slightly-related note, I just watched a Norwegian zombie movie last night- "Dead Snow", and one of the protagonists used a large leuku to dispatch several Nazi zombies, with great effect. :D:thumbup:
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That would be a Norwegian Native Sami-knife, you can get to watch them at www.stromeng.no and even read the history of these knives in english.

OOOOH, by the way you can get them in any lenght you want.
ragweedforge has them in stock if you`re interessted.
Got one with a 10" blade myself, very happy with it, and the Norwegian army issues these knives to some of the "special" guys.
Holds an edge very well and are extremely easy to maintain in the field..
 
thanks for sharing that, brother.

it is an important knife design IMHO, and i am glad to see some interpretation of it.

vec
 
Awesome post! Thanks very much for sharing your pics!

Just a guess, but I'm betting Christof has a hard time sleeping for next few days...
 
The Scandinavian countries and Finland in particular have such a rich tradition in both design & knife use. It's really amazing to see the kind of love and respect that everyday tools are given in their culture.

Thanks for sharing the pic's! I'd love to see this display in person.
 
+1 for the Stromeng.
I've got one of the 9" models w/unpolished blade.

to the OP: good on you mate - some neat pics. (I liked the leather handled one with the lanyard hole)
 
Still enjoying this thread. Those are some great looking knives. There is something wonderfully elemental about the leuku. Maybe I meant primordial. Awesome knife(s).
 
Thank You !!!

I'm passing the link to this thread on. Many folks will love the variations.
 
Tried that stromeng link and it didn't work.

These are great thanks for sharing. The leukku is one of my favorite designs.

Glad to see Koyote chimed in. This should get Christophs creative juices flowing.
 
wildmike said:
Tried that stromeng link and it didn't work.

These are great thanks for sharing. The leukku is one of my favorite designs.

Glad to see Koyote chimed in. This should get Christophs creative juices flowing.
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Oh you have no idea. Both my kids are having my own take on the little black leuku done up as their 'named' models. With different colors.

The fish knife has me meditation on a chunk of steel on my desk with a grease pencil. The 'eye' leuku has a very, very, interesting sheath design. Some of the artisic simplicity is so amazing.

I'm not terribly fond of the varied cord wrap, but I can see a full cord wrap done ins 25 pound waxed flax.... possibly in black.... and I'm ordering some white gunkote!!!!

These people are amazing.
 
Wow, some beauties in that bunch. The fish knife is what Bob Lum woulda made if he were a Saami... Real neat stuff.
 
Just had to bump this up again because first, I love playing with designs in my head and second, I stumbled on to a Finnish buschraft blogger and knifemaker with his thoughts about the what traditionally a leuku generally should look like (besides the cool scandi knife porn in this thread as well!).

Even here in my country, sometimes the terms for a knife as a working tool vary according use and region. They could be interchanged as well for convenience sake (i.e. - kampit/itak/tabak/gulok and that's only in the Tagalog dialect!). The thing is, there should be certain characteristics though which should be present as to what it generally should look like.
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As a traditionalist, his first characteristic of what a leuku is (generally understood to be a large all-around camp knife that can chop) should have the ylahella or the flared end/pommel to aide in snap cutting. Link below -

http://theoldpathblog.blogspot.fi/2013/01/how-to-define-leukus-by-shape.html
 
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