Recent content by Finnman

That's true Andy. There isn't too many camp chores you need small knife if you don't do decorative carving stuff. Sure you can do all those with small knife, but big just makes it faster and less effort imho. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Not so sure of steel exactly, but Lauri makes it's blade. Same company make most of the finnish small puukkomakers blades who uses readymade factory blades, like Kellam for example. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And bit better pic of knife itself. That fork was fastly made with Skrama to see how you can do finer tasks with it if you have to. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I got Varusteleka Skrama few weeks ago and was amazed how well it performs as jack of all trades. It's full tang and have quality (Lauri's) carbon steel blade. It's also very affordable. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Back in the days 90% of axes in Finland was shaped like that made by Bilnäs. You can still find good or OK condition heads from fleamarkets around 5-20 year each. I have several of those heads and few ol Bilnäs axes. They mostly had quite thick bit compared to swedish axes like Gränsfors and...

You can buy it from finnish shops, but I don´t know if they will ship abroad and how much it costs. http://www.maanpuolustusyhtio.fi/PublishedService?file=page&pageID=9&itemcode=2403 http://www.lamnia.fi/items.php?lang=fi&pid=3 JP Peltonen have small shop in town of Fiskars, Finland but he...

What a Pushkraft tool, mortal kombat! :D

I have Trapper D2 scandi and I got it chipped badly in my first test with dry juniper. Then I fixed nicks (took ages) and add tiny secondary convex bevel on it and it have done fine now.

I store mine in water...

Pocket Torch lighter 1 EUR (fleamarket) Nalgene 1 liter bottle 1 EUR (fleamarket) Stainless cooking set pot & kettle, new 3 EUR (fleamarket) Swedish EKA folding fillet knife 2 EUR (fleamarket) Esbit cooker with 2 packs of fuel tablets 1,5 EUR (fleamarket) German army flectarn battle jacket...

Hello, I made visit to local surplus store today and got a lot of good clothing and stuff for 12 EUR all together !! That´s best deal I have found for long time Stuff from up left to down right 1) German long sleeve button shirt 3,5 EUR 2) German canvas laundry bag 1 EUR 3) German toilet...

Nice to see people like finnish puukkos here. Jukka Hankala´s are really top notch quality! Nylunds I don´t have experience, but looks good though.

I used 240 and 400 grit papers. Last (4th) coating of Danish Oil I rubbed with 000-steel wool which polishes wood a bit more. Between sandings I wet and dried the handle to get fibers rise up. I left handle little rough by purpose since knife will be hard user where good grip is essential...

Here is mine, finished today. Birch burl treated with danish oil:

Yea, maybe it was too simple question to answer, looks like people think too complicated sometimes :) I´m on same line with Bmatt that you suppose to answer given question and explain why you choosed what you choosed. I personally prefer bigger chopper knife if I can have only one cause in my...