What Puukkos Do You Like?

[I'mSoSharp]

Whose got a good rhombic blank?

Same reply. YP-Taonta.

I handled a Finnish YP (Yrjo Puronvarsi) hand forged carbon FFG blade & my first thoughts was to do a stacked leather handle but after a while I decided on wood with a shape influenced by the blade shape. Wood is Briar root.

 

[RayseM]

I can't read his website, are they through the link you sent or can they be found elsewhere?

I discovered that I can copy paragraphs and then open a window in GOOGLE TRANSLATE (or some similar translator site) - paste the text into the translator and read away. Doesn't always come out perfect but you can certainly get the gist. Might take more than a few copy and pastes to read a page of text.

As for PUUKKOs check out my recent thread about my PUUKKO discovery - https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/new-puukko-from-finland.1616048/#post-18458519

There are other threads too if you use the BF search.

Good luck with your quest.

Ray

 

[marchone]

In Ukraine, Aleksandr Afonchenko is making a few good models including a puukko he's done in several different finishes.

 

[The Shatz]

So far my favorite is a malanika in 4v Ned is a Jelio same steel and I have a presnell in 52100 that works great as well little thicker behind the edge. Love birch bark handles great grip and just enough give to feel great in the hand

 

[353]

Martti Malinen. Hand forged 52100 at 61 HRC.

 

[I'mSoSharp]

I can't read his website, are they through the link you sent or can they be found elsewhere?

https://www.lamnia.com/en/sc/156/knives/blades?sgid=156&mid=377

 

[The Zieg]

Nice to see the hidden tang puukot. These full tang knives with slab grips just don't have the same handle geometry or balance that a puukko must have. Calling them puukot is like calling a leuku a Bowie knife. It isn't. It doesn't want to be. Same with puukot.

I know I harp on this, I know I need to CTFO, but it really irks me. I'm becoming a crotchety alterkaker in my early 50s!

And you kids better get off my lawn!

Zieg

 

[Entropy Warrior]

If you can't read Antti's website you can go through Lamnia.

I actually ended up.doing that and got one last night. Took @Frederick89 's suggestion and went with a YP-Taonta.

 

[Entropy Warrior]

I really like the Lauri PT blades, its easy to make one on your own. 80CRV2 seems to be a very popular UHC steel for pukkos.

I've seen that steel mentioned but it had this eluded me: does it contain chromium? I'm not really set up to temper a blade with a bunch of chromium lest it be an exception to that generality

 

[Entropy Warrior]

I handled a Finnish YP (Yrjo Puronvarsi) hand forged carbon FFG blade & my first thoughts was to do a stacked leather handle but after a while I decided on wood with a shape influenced by the blade shape. Wood is Briar root.

That looks sweet. Need to get one to keep my pipe company

 

[Entropy Warrior]

This is what I went with

 

[Skidoosh]

Not much Chromium in 80Crv2. I'm not a bladesmith so I have no clue about its handling properties. The PTs are blade blanks.

 

[Cutlery Celt]

Looking to get a pukko. What does everyone have and like?

Enzo Nordic with curly birch handle.

 

[Rich S]

Entropy Warrior -

I like Ahti (Reino Kamppila) puukko, esp.the Metsa and the Juhla.
Rich

 

[Alberta Ed]

Roselli Carpenter is traditional and one of my favorites. Benchmade Puukko 200 is a modern iteration, and for toughness (3v) and the wonderful Kraton grip, I'd go with that if I had a "one only" decision to make. I've drooled over Kellam's exquisite puukkos but they are pricey and I haven't (yet) come up with an excuse to buy one. There are quite a few custom makers who post here whose puukkos seem equivalent to or even better than Kellam's, too. (Excuses rapidly running out...)

 

[Arathol]

One of my favorites, made by Zhelyo Tenev

Factory made blades, the older Marttiini Ilves design

Something smaller thats easily put in the pocket, a Jarvenpaa vuolu puukko

I've drooled over Kellam's exquisite puukkos but they are pricey and I haven't (yet) come up with an excuse to buy one. There are quite a few custom makers who post here whose puukkos seem equivalent to or even better than Kellam's, too. (Excuses rapidly running out...)

Just FYI Kellam is a retailer, not a maker. Lots of their stuff you can get right from the maker for less. Ahti makes many of them I believe....

 

[Alberta Ed]

One of my favorites, made by Zhelyo Tenev

Factory made blades, the older Marttiini Ilves design

Something smaller thats easily put in the pocket, a Jarvenpaa vuolu puukko

Just FYI Kellam is a retailer, not a maker. Lots of their stuff you can get right from the maker for less. Ahti makes many of them I believe....

Thanks, that's good to know.

 

[Rich S]

We have too many threads on puukko. At least two maybe three under the traditional knives forum. I mentioned the same thing about Kellam and Ahti puukko on one them a week or so ago. Anyway we can consolidate or even get a separate forum for puukko and other Nordic knives?

By the way Arathol, I love that bark sheath. One variation I don't have in my collection (287 vintage and a few modern puukko). Been collecting for many,many years - just an old geezer that likes puukko. I've posted many of my better or unusual ones on various threads over the years.

Rich (puukko lover/collector)