EKA Swede 10: Great surprise!

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Yesterday I bought the EKA Swede 10, and what a great folder! The fit and finish is absolutely top notch. The knife is so tight.. no play, blade is totaly centered, STRONG lockback, but it´s not a one hand opening knife. The Scandi blade is so sharp that it will shave armhair right out of the box. It´s got Sandvik 12C27 steel wich is pretty good. The wood handles is beautiful and very comfortable but don´t offer very much grip. The lockback semes very strong, it passed my spine wack test. A very sturdy and strong folder for wood work, camping, hunting and hiking. I got it for about 55 dollars. EKA Swede 10 comes in black and orange plastic as well, but I like the wooden ones.
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"Scandi" is a totally American concept. Nobody in Norway, Finland, Sweden or Denmark ever uses that term. One of my wife's cousins back in Denmark is a serious hunter and fisherman. He carries a Buck 110.
 
Sidehill Gouger said:
"Scandi" is a totally American concept. Nobody in Norway, Finland, Sweden or Denmark ever uses that term. One of my wife's cousins back in Denmark is a serious hunter and fisherman. He carries a Buck 110.
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The term might be american, but the concept is very much scandinavian. It refers to the grind, not the whole knife. I know a single knife model (production) outside scandinavia that uses the scandi grind, while practically the entire Mora line is scandi ground.

That knife is not bad, it actually looks real nice. It's just that you can't call it scandi if it has secondary bevel.
 
And Finnish knives are rarely ground with a single bevel edge nor are the few Danish knives I've handled. Norse knives are ground that way for wood carving, the traditional way to spend the long winters with out going crazy. I assume the Swedes probably just copied their more intelligent neighbors :) Mora is a city in Sweden, not a knife brand but they are famous for wood carving blades and tools in that area too.
 
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