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It's been about five years since my last post, and my knife making hobby has gotten a bit more serious since. Here's some of my latest work. Reproduction of a late iron age Finnish seax. Laminated blade, cast bronze handle. I had the pleasure to study one of the originals at National Board of...

Mainsail, This is the response. Your original post (http://www.thehighroad.org/showpost.php?p=7833626&postcount=107) It has been a particularly rainy autumn, and winter is about a month late already. Today it was sleeting (0 celsius) and the wind was fairly stiff, so, everything is absolutely...

http://www.helsinkiknifeshow.com/ Their 2011 image gallery is also worth a visit. http://www.helsinkiknifeshow.com/gallery_11/index.html Gallery for the 2010 exhibition... not necessarily worth it :D

In light of recent discussions I decided it would be nice to open a thread about how knives age. As it happens I recently managed to salvage some old photos from a broken and discarded laptop. One of them shows a small puukko I made years ago as it was when brand new. I still have the knife, and...

Some images from Rautasulka Blacksmith festival in Sulkava Finland 2009 and 2010. Images (obviously) courtesy of my good friend photographer Vesa Nopanen. Hope you enjoy them. Yes, Marlon Brando was there

I have been participating in a Puukko construction course. Here are some images from today. Iron melting The forge A friend of mine giving a Puukko making demonstration. More to follow...

I thought it would be fun to share this image with THR forum knife enthusiasts. It's a birch knar that weighs approximately 50kg. Enough material for a year or two?

I am pleased with the result, although I did make a mistake or two... Hope you like it! This is a variation of Kokemäki-Puukko.

Finally had some time to work at the forge. Here is what I managed to create The basic form has been grinded and it has not been heat treated. I was thinking about leaving the spine as it is, with visible hammermarks. What do you think - is it a good idea or not? When I have time to...

I thought I should post some images of Finnish knives...and some flames. This is basically a Tommi-puukko, except for the sheath which is a bit different (color/ornaments) from the traditional model. Tommi-puukko is meant to be a "universal tool" for every day chores in the wilderness. This...

There seems to be many people on this forum who would like to hear more about knife sharpening. So, I decided to make an effort to explain the process briefly, from my standpoint. Since English is not my native language, I might stumble on technical vocabulary (among other things), but...

At a glance it seems that knife related threads are mostly concentrating on stainless steel ”tactical” knives. I have used many and still carry one (spyderco) in an urban environment, but I have not found one that could really compete with traditional carbon steel blades when it comes to edge...