East coast boys talk about all the trees having rings of bark taken off of them. The wrong type of bug comes through...

Thanks for the tips. I wish we had birches where I live. There's some north of me, but scattered and hard to locate.

I have a vintage Fiskars from the 70’s or 80’s that looks almost the same with a 5 1/2 inch blade. Interesting. The scales are almost the same, but with a brass cap on the end. 🎸🔪

I want one of each! 🎸🔪

Avon filing for bankruptcy :( ...Where next?

Excellent !

So which do you like better after all these years?

Nice brother! Just ordered the 240 and frog can't wait to get it but that loop trick was great idea thanks!

Very handsome

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Awesome video Tim! Aura is a finnish word that means a plow. I think its interesting that if you would ask a random Finn, no knife enthusiast or outdoors type he would immidiately know the difference of Puukko or Veitsi (finnish for knife). Puukko is ALWAYS an outdoors Belt knife, with preferably wooden handle, scandi grind etc. ect. Cheers!

An earlier comment hit it on the head, puukko has become a marketing term, much like bushcraft. What we call puukko today has never been fixed or set in concrete. The Sammi people developed a blade and shape that fit their environment best. Steel being rare and expensive meant you forged a rat tail tang, less metal used, lighter to carry. Birch handles, the best wood they had available. Simple. Above all, the puukko was and is a cutting tool, a slicing knife. Fish, moose, wood or whatever, it was used because it was all you had. For bigger jobs, the Leuko emerged and the axe was the main chopping tool. It wouldn’t surprise me if puukko wasn’t more of a slang word for a slicing or carving knife. I think we think too much into things!

Interesting stuff mate! I guess like many subjects it’s open to interpretation by the individual. But all of the knives you shown look good usable, practical carry choices to me. Very best wishes 👍🏻👍🏻😎

The Mora type is the Mikov Brigand 393 with the scandi blade

Interesting video. I have always been told dogs eat grass when their stomaches are upset. Perhaps that's why Unni is doing it. My good old dog Tip used to eat grass and then barf it up. But dogs will eat just about anything. Lol.

Interesting discussion Tim. They are all great knives. Beautiful colors out there, awesome video. 👍🏻

The thing with bps knives is they are using 1066 steel, but they should be using 1095. Then they would be great

Great video, thanks Tim! I almost thought you weren’t going to get around to the Roselli Carpenter, one of my favorite all-around blades and especially the handle. It feels so right in my hand. Which is also why I love the Roselli Bear Claw, same handle, shorter blade (Grandmother blade, I think) which I find better for fine carving as well as general light use. Also, many thanks to everyone’s comments, many great nomenclature points made. I’m learning a lot from this community!

Great video. Have you tried any Yakut knives? I have 3 and I love them.

Another example of this nomenclatural fuzziness is that of the word "Tanto". In the origins, the word Tanto referred to a category of long knife or short sword. Within the category historical examples are available with widely differing designs and blade profiles. However, starting in America around the 80's the word Tanto began to be applied in regards to a particular kind of knife blade profile, with the blade tip somewhat reminiscent of the design and function of the Katana tip. So now the word Tanto can refer to two clearly distinct albeit tenuously related concepts. Back to the Puukko, my understanding is like yours, that the word refers to a category of short belt knife. Certainly in the origins, as with the Japanese Tanto, there would have been a wider variety of personalised blade profiles and grinds, but the same construction methods were universally applied. So the first generation of Puukkos would most all have had stick tang construction for good reasons such as the availability of steel and the tools and available materials and methods of the period etc. However there would have been far less of an established tradition regarding the profile and grind of the blade than what we have today. Nowadays the global conception of a Puukko seems to refer more than anything to the blade profile (we might say Kochanski-esque) and of course the Scandi grind. My understanding is that the Scandi grind is actually a fairly recent development within the Puukko tradition! As is the use of synthetic handle materials, modern adhesives, stainless steels etc etc. This topic is now reminding me also of my investigations into what makes a Wharncliffe a Wharncliffe. I can think of perhaps five defining characteristics of a Wharncliffe, yet one or more might be in some way altered and the knife is still clearly a Wharncliffe if it's anything at all. On the other hand I do see plenty of knives that are claimed "Wharncliffe" whilst by my lights they clearly are not. I suggest we make a list of Puukko characteristics. • Sheath knife • Dimensions - 1 palm blade, 1 palm handle • Stick tang • Handle: natural materials • Blade profile: staight spine; cutting edge one long sweep. • Blade stock: forged carbon steel • Blade grind: Scandi • Application: multi-use woods knife • Finger guard: no Any more for any more?! Still, you might have a knife with only half of the above characteristics, which might get a Puukko pass - such as the knife I am making for you using a pinned hidden half tang, 7/8 palm blade, semi-stainless steel and a distally tapered Woodsman grind. :D

I think a lot of people are too worried about what other people call their knives. When I think about these knives I think of the knives made by the Finnish natives so most of the knives shown in this video isn't what I think of. Tantos are another example of how confusing names are for some people. I have a tanto made in the style of the original ones. When I show it to some people they like to correct me and tell me it's not a real tanto. When I ask them what a real tanto is they normally bring up a Cold Steel tanto styled knife. LOL I don't really care what others call their knives or what they think about what I call mine. I can find plenty of things that are worthy of a heated debate, proper knife classifications is not one of them. Especially if it leads up to insults and angry arguments which will occasionally happen when it comes to knife discussions. Maybe the subject of knives should be added to the list of things that shouldn't be brought up like religion and politics for some people. LOL😊

if you dig into the scandinavian and russian and over the area knives back to vikings era they have changed design so many time i think puukko is just a marketing brand for bushcrafters and old timer nordic hunters i would say it doesnt matter just get a knife you like and fits your hand well there has been small knives big knives and weirdly shaped into every type you can imagine i like micarta over wood its soft but durable and feel warm in the hand and grippy when wet...cant say that about wood really and you can file and sand it to fit you hand just like wood...btw a knife i think you would like is swisstech in vg1 steel haltbar was the model name 49usd online...not that you actually need any more knives at this point hehe

Muy buen video Tim🤠🤜🤛

Knife has one purpose only, and that is to cut. Cut, sharpen it and cut again. Sometimes baton and carve and that is all. Pukko or Bushcraft they are all welcome if they are capable of doing the job you need to do. Thanks for the video.

Well, Tim, thats a great discussion point and idea for a video. 👍🏻 I am of the camp that enjoys both traditional puukkos as well as the "modern variants." In fact, the only knives I am interested in anymore are what I loosely refer to as "puukkos". I love the straight-backed, scandi ground very plain micarta-handled puukkos (such as the Aura etc.). I also love the more traditional classic "puukkos". As an example, I own the smaller NKD Korpi with curly birch handles, and it looks just like a Tommi puukko, but with a full tang. I think it's amazing! Great video, mate! Well done. 🙂🇨🇦

Este pukko es muy silimar el cuchillo muela springer 11r . Saludos desde la patagonia en chile

Great video, thank you!

Viva Puukko! I love these knives, especially the Predator. Great video and discussion of the topic. Glad Unni made an appearance at the end. Nice work. Is the BPS worth the money?

I see the Bps knives are keeping up in price, the one you shown is £58 in the uk, I have to say its the only one I've seen that looks decent, saying that I can get a marttiini knife cheaper and they are fantastic knives. As for the name puukko its getting a bit confusing isn't it, everyone seems to be jumping on the puukko bandwagon and in my opinion a puukko is a small traditional general purpose belt knife made in Finland, just my thoughts.😁👍🏻

I just like Nordic knives and most of my fixed blades are Nordic of one kind or another. You mentioned the Skookum Bush tool, i bought my Enzo because it reminded me of one. It's horses for courses really, been using a Marttiini most of this season because it's a beautiful carver but like you said, i wouldn't wail on it, have a Hultafors GK for that. A great selection of knives you have there, very nice!!

Thanks.

yeah weight matters :) ... When several years ago I saw Morakniv Lapplander 95 in shop I thought it's beautiful and bought it, but man it has so uncomfortable weight ... and yes it is also not a puukko ... for me puukko should look like Ahti Metsa :)

I think that there is also a shift in mentality. If I understand it correctly, the older generations used to carry multiple blades and at least one puukkoo paired with a leuku. Today things are more revolved about 1 tool options even though most of us still pair multiple tools together.

Je ne comprends pas que vous n'entretenez pas vos lames carbone. Ce n'est pas compliqué et rapide à faire. Après utilisation bien essayer la lame et quelques gouttes d'huile.

"Puukko" is pretty much the default word for every fixed blade knife that is carried in a sheath here in Finland. Word "Veitsi" (=Knife) is used for kitchen knives and maybe something that has more exotic or unconventional shape.

Bless Unni ! ..always on the mooch !! Some wonderful blades there Tim bro.. great review of them !!

For me, a puukko is a simple hand-made scandi ground straight back knife ,usually rat tang .with a birch or stacked handle, but as knives have developed now a days ,some can closely resemble one .great content, brother. God bless you 🙏. Lee

I think there's a noticeable difference between a traditional puukko and a modern puukko inspired design; both have their merits. 👍 Thanks for sharing about yours, you have a good collection of both kinds. 😊 Take care my friend and Cheers!

Only the Finns and the Sami know how to make puukkots.

KZbin is deleting my comments BIGTIME. I left a long comment about your knives and stuff and it's gone. It keeps happening and I'm so sick of it. They shut me down for 24 hrs cause I said supposedly said something their Ai system didn't like and flagged me. I have no clue what I said?? or did, but it's their kingdom so I have zero rights . To be honest, I am thinking of scrapping youtube . As much as I love to share knife stuff it's getting really ridiculous. Their rules are getting stupidly authoritarian. I might switch to Rumble . I never thought I'd leave this platform but I feel like they don't care about free speech at all anymore. Sorry to rant here , it's just happend to me way to much lately. I'm just a simple knife reviewer yet being treated like a digital criminal .

Love the collection and great info.

Hownmany knives/axes/machetes do you think you have total these days?

yup, I thought Skookum bush tool as soon as you showed it...modern, traditional? I don't know the difference either LOL...nice collection of sharpys...luv the woods knife Hiker!...atvb...woods

Very nice. I like that BPS.

I liked knives and learned to use them at an early age. Me and my friends spent a lot of our time in the forest and low rocky hills in the outskirts of Gothenburg. Wel build all types of huts and made campfires for grilling sausages or other food. We carried very often a belt knife. As far as I can remember we only had some type of rat tang knives. It could have a bone handle, wooden handle or a birchbark handle. Full tang knives I came in contact with much later in life. Batoning was nothing we really did. We borrowed an axe if we should make a fire. Looking at the sami knives and knifes from Norway, Sweden and Finland they seems to be very similar. They very often had some type of scandi grind.However there was also other type of grinds. The sami people also often carried a chopper for cutting bigger pieces of meat and for cutting down smaller trees. There are very many knife makers in our countries and very often they make knifes that are very traditional. We have some more modern knife makers like Fällkniven, Helle, Casström, Brisa and of course Mora that today are making many different type of knives for a global market. We use different words in Norway, Sweden and Finland but they all mean folder, belt knife and chopper. I also own a BPS Aura. Great small knife which I now have used for some months. It doesn't look like a traditional Nordic knife but does that matter?

Great Videos .

Good informational video, thanks for sharing, YAH bless !

I know I'm a bit late to the show, but I have the Joker Nessmuk stainless/scandi with curly birch scales. I love it! Been using it for 3 years as well (I remember your review when you first got yours and was instrumental in my decision to go with Joker) here in the N. Cascades. I'm out 4 seasons and find this knife a great all around camp knife. I think the more you use a knife with a certain profile the more proficient you beome with it. I've had folks tell me that there are better knives for general chores. The mass of the blade helps to maintian angles when feather-sticking and why I think it is so good at it, also as mentioned, I just prefer the feel of this knife and so use it more than my Ahti Pukko. I think it performs exceptional for all the tasks I ask of it. If you haven't used it for game, it really shines there. Excellent butchering knife! I also like the mass of it for chopping and it is bomb-proof for more demanding tasks. Anyhow, glad to see this follow-up and comparison - I'll stick with the Nessi and goes with me 90% of the time. Thanks for your insights! NOTE: I use a lanyard for hanging the knife on a nearby branch rather than having to pull it out of the sheaf all the time - like for cooking chores for example. That is about the most useful thing I find I use the lanyard for.

Omg I'd love a convex grind leuku