Marttiini Lapinleuku 230

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Harayasu

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This summer I have spent 4 weeks driving, hiking and camping in Scandinavia, mainly Lapland. The northern wilderness is a great area, I've been there 10 times now.

Anyway, when visiting the Finnish city Rovaniemi I found a store where they sell lots of souvenirs, like hats, toys, traditional wooden cups and .... Marttiini knives. Unfortunately I know very little about those knives, but couldn't resist buying one and bought the Lapinleuku 230 in the pictures below. I haven't used it yet, except from cutting paper, which is performs very well. The blade is very sharp.

Hope you enjoy the pictures.

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I have a forged (stainless) Marttiini puuko that was a gift from a buddy in Austria. It's a great knife. :thumbup:

I like your leuku! A classic pattern. :thumbup:

What are the dimensions of the blade?
 
Hi,

A great memento to remember your trip by. And it's one you can use and enjoy for life. I like it!

Dale
 
Harayasu said:
This summer I have spent 4 weeks driving, hiking and camping in Scandinavia, mainly Lapland.
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Wow, what a fantasy trip that would be for me. I would really like to visit the old country some day.
Nice knife also. A perfect souvenir to remind you of a great vacation.
 
i have a martinni as well but it has the black rubber handles. really nice knife though and is super sharp.

yours is alot better looking though. its a very classy knife.
 
The brand is a kind of Mora here, although they do make a wide range of knives. I like them, other people here are a bit sniffy about them as they are not in the artisan/custom bracket. But then, they don't cost the earth! The carbon Marttiini I have is VERY sharp and satisfactory and a stainless rubber handled one lives in my car for emergencies, good sheathes too,rather under-estimated in my view.
 
I have had a few of those and still have two. One that was my brothers and one that I sometimes carry in moosehunt or fishin but mainly for work i my small farm. Its a good light knife, cuts as good as the mora 2000. One drawback is that it can get wery stuck in the sheath if put into it to wet.
Nice that you like it in lappland. I also do. I have a cabin in Fatmomakke, swedish south lappland where I stay for several weeks a year.

Bosse
 
I bought that exact knife for my stepfather a couple years back. It's a good knife, and Marttiini makes good, affordable, quality knives. My first knife, a Marttiini Martef Skinner, is on my belt and has been for years. They also make kitchen knives, display knives, fishing knives, mora-style knives and vesuris. Don't know what a vesuri is? Google it, they're useful.
 
Actually, Marttiinis are actually pretty famous in America...and people don't realize it. Marttiini makes the ubiquitous birch handled filet knife seen for sale in every bait shop in America...and probably rattling around in half the tackle boxes in North America!
 
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When I go on trips now I always try to find a knife from that area that I don't currently own. Good way to start a collection and beats the hell out of regular souvenirs.
 
Marttiini's are work horse. Their stainless is nice but quite shoft. Marttiini usually keeps their stainless 54-56 hrc the prevent chipping... what happends according Marttiini when steel is too hard and 54-56 hrc is optimum for their stainless alloy for puukko's.

I can't say much but it works. Marttiini is true work horse of Finnish puukko's. You know when you have Marttiini, its not perfect, its not always best finish nor always beautiful but it works and its quality tool for relatively low price.
 
all of us had a inexpensive fillet knife made by marrtinni when young. they held decent edges & performed great for the price.
dennis
 
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