This is a pile of future puukkos, a half dozen to be made for Christmas gifts when weather cools.

The wood is wax dipped Amazon Rosewood (which is as close as to long time banned Brazilian Rosewood as one can get, and likely next on the ban list, most "rosewood" sold today not true rosewood at all), blades are Lauri, wood will be cut to lengths, center drilled and while annealing tangs for peening, will burn tang hole for perfect fit with spare blade bought just for that (at sub-$20, you can afford to ruin a blade and use as a tool), will be epoxied (only for waterproofing interior and joints for kitchen tool use) and tang peened over brass washer on butt.

Mainly showing this to show the Lauri blades. Nothing wrong with them. I think they are stamped-out Thyssen Krupp 80CrV2 run to 58-60 Rc so you might sometimes get one too hard, but normally good rep among knife beaters. Since for mainly female family members, blades will be excellent for daily chores.

A real puukko? Not really, except in the 20th century factory made manner of cheap utility knife. But still a great blade design of strong edge and tip but with high grind for wicked slicer/cutter maintaining puukko strengths.





Edited by Lofty (07/27/16 05:53 PM)
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