Hey, DS, who was offering the lovely Taonta bladed puukkos accented with the northern Saami bone and carving? I just adore the Saami bone carving and piercing, personally prefer that type of carving over our more florid engraving styles.

Also, should maybe accent that crafts and tourism a very large part of Scandinavian and Bothnian/Ostrobothnian/Saami economies, and have been since railroads. So as far as puukkos (which just means "knife") goes, very developed regional style knifemaking centers developed early on. Team efforts of knifemaking as well.

So, outsourced blades from both factories and small smithies common, and many smiths make far more blades for other houses than they do their own, and these other houses employ people adept in various folk crafts, many working out of own homes, full or part time.

These knives a prime example and just gorgeous.

On second look, they look native craft but not Suomi/Saami....a native American flair?! Still same team effort but spread further than usual?

Gotta add the contrast to traditional puukkoseppa who does it all.



PS- these are outsourced, but just Saami style carving and not Saami style knife, but cannot put finger on all the influences, seems a dash of Amerind, but only a dash. But still western, not something done in Asia. Waiting for answer on this one, for sure. Meanwhile can post uncontested team effort of outsource blades handled and sold under another name, and all domestic, start to finish (no pun).





If anyone was curious as to the literal Saami flair, and how you did not cut the snot out of yourself, most cuts were pull cuts, while for pushing during carving or hide piercing, the force was applied to the wider pommel with the other hand.