The Puukko

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Just finished another one, this is with a Lauri LPT blade.
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Pretty superb fitting of the vamplate. (I don't know what else to call it; it isn't a ferule . Maybe it's a bolster?)

 

[lentuk]

Thank you .

 

[beeinak]

I carried a Hackman Tapio Wirkalla many years ago and lost it in a move. I wanted to get one for sentimental reasons. I saw one recently on an auction and planned to put in a bid at the closing hours. Somehow I missed out and it sold for about 20% of the ones I see sold recently. Could kick myself…

 

[RayseM]

Gone

 

[SwissHeritageCo]

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Ray, how is the edge retention/ease of sharpening on that bad boy... Vanadis 4 was it?

 

[RayseM]

So far I've only needed stropping. To be fair, I have not put it to any serious cutting but in my normal use this edge is holding fine.

 

[robinpeck]

Working knives.

 

[robinpeck]

More working knives.

 

[veeteetee]

Kokemäen puukko by Olli-Pekka Kaitale:

 

[zippofan]

They're such beautiful knives, I recently sold my Spyderco Puukko, but I still have a couple from Finland. The Spyderco introduced me to the world of Finnish knives, I ended up with a Jarvenpaa and a Marttiini among others. Then I started collecting European fixed blade Scout knives like Helle and of course a Mora.
Here's the Spyderco that I had:


I always figured if I wasn't careful I'd cut all my fingers clean off, it was that sharp!

 

[Ron Sabbagh]

How about a nice folding Puukko?
Not my pic obviously but this is my knife. Cannot recommend it highly enough. Custom goodness for about the same price as a higher end commercial “tactical” folder we all know & love…

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[Hengelo_77]

I finished another one, this time with a bit of a modern twist.
Rolled micarta handle with rag micarta spacers and a stainless blade.
Half the spine is rombic ground the other half is full thickness and rounded.

 

[RayseM]

Here is my latest handle project ~ a LAURI blade with a handle of Green Heart wood with a couple of copper discs sandwiching a piece of white tail antler.

3-1/2" blade with the very comfortable handle measuring 4-3/4".

 

[veeteetee]

Two superb puukkos by Jukka Hankala:

 

[SwissHeritageCo]

Kokemäen puukko by Olli-Pekka Kaitale:

So simple and beautiful... love it.

 

[RayseM]

One more from me this month but that's it for a while - I have real work ahead.

This one a HELLE blank with bronze/teak/stacked leather. Have to find time to make a sheath.



I threaded the tang and set the nut and washer in the teak portion, then tapped the bronze cap so that it could be spun on.
Cut and peened the bit of tang left. Pretty solid assembly.

 

[nbp]

My only puukko. One of the old knives my grandpa gave me from his decades of hunting, fishing and camping. I polished it up just a bit with some Flitz but the blade shows its many years of faithful service. It is a beautiful style of knife. I would love one with a traditional curly birch handle.

 

[scattershot]

I’m still kicking myself 40:years later, after I spotted a used Wirkkala at a gunshow. Guy wanted $20.00 for it, and wouldn’t come down, so I walked. Wish I hadn’t.

 

[marchone]

I picked up a good condition small one on eBay for $250 a few years ago. As shown in the pic above it was produced in Finland in the 1960s by Hackman to the design of Tapio Wirkkala. An example is in the Permanent Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.

Brookstone sold them in their catalogs and stores in 60s and 70s.

 

[Invisiwind]

Some of my favorites

Lauri PT blade with olive wood, birch bark, and purple heart

DIY file knife, scandi-vex ground, handled in Wenge, stacked birch bark, and roasted maple

Helle Viking blade handled in Copper, Birch Bark, Reindeer Antler, and stabilized Redwood Burl.

Full-custom, sort of my take on the Mora 120.... 1084 carbon, brass bolster and pin, ivory g10 & stacked birch bark

That is beautiful. Where did you come by the blade on the “full custom?” Blade dimensions per chance?