The mystery of the magnet! 😆 This blade already comes with a story.
@dongkhamet1351
17 күн бұрын
An Electro-Magnetic phenomenon! I think the pixies might have borrowed the magnet though. Sometimes they engineer these situations to their own ends. There's no malice in it, necessarily, perhaps they just needed a magnet for a minute. If so they may have already put it back in the first place I looked. I'll check.
@KuukkeliBushcraft
17 күн бұрын
Hey mate, really sorry but I don't know who made it. Wood Jewel make one very similar but yours looks nicer. That kind of half sheath as they call it (puolitupi) is quite common here, especially here in the north. What I can tell you is that knife makers here usually don't make their own blades. They usually use blades made by Laurin Metali which look very much like the blade in your knife. I have also had that kind of belt loop break on me so you are right to go with caution. The other knife is an Iisaki Jarvenpää scout knife. A very popular knife that they have been making forever ( they still produce something similar).
@dongkhamet1351
16 күн бұрын
Thank you! I hear it's similar in the Danish knife making scene: next to nobody makes sole authorship knives and kits are very popular. I think I may have just had an insight into why this might be something of a Scandinavian phenomenon: supposing there is a long tradition wherein many or at times most men made their own knives using a blade blank from a blacksmith. Surely back in the Viking days there was no such thing as a professional knife maker. The blacksmith-bladesmith could make you a knife blank and you do the rest. Have fun, save money and get the knife to your preference using your own skills and materials. 100% custom builds on every belt and often made as gifts or for sale and trade. It helps me to imagine all this that I have the berserker ancestry and I am fairly taken with a similar concept of knife making, such as what I have done with the Buck Pursuit.
@dongkhamet1351
16 күн бұрын
I recently heard on a Patriot Knife and Tool video that William Marbles took out the first patent for the stacked leather handle. I supposed the stacked handle to be a far older technique because you see it on so many traditional Scandinavian knives. Was the stacked grip really a 20th century invention? Perhaps you can tell me more.
@KuukkeliBushcraft
15 күн бұрын
@@dongkhamet1351Stacked birch bark has always been a thing in Finland according to Annsi Ruusuvori in his originally titled book "The Puukko" possibly back to the Iron Age. However the oldest one reliably dated has been dated to 1831.
@dongkhamet1351
15 күн бұрын
@@KuukkeliBushcraft Thank you, that definitely answers the main question. Perhaps then Marbles was the first to use stacked leather, but even that I'd question. If stacked birch has been used for millennia, are we to suppose it never occurred to anyone to use leather instead? Leather will inevitably rot so a lack of archaeological samples doesn't contraindicate the hypothesis. 'Plenty of ancient stick tangs in museums that who knows what handle material was used. It's a bit hard on my imagination to see that old Finnish scout knife with the stacked leather and suppose that this was something the Finns learned from the Americans rather than vice versa. Could be though!
@KuukkeliBushcraft
15 күн бұрын
@@dongkhamet1351 First off I think Finns have used leather as spacers and have stacked pretty much every conceivable material in every conceivable order in the past including just stacked leather if they happened to have a lot of scraps of leather although this is hard to prove. Also I am pretty sure that the knife you have there is birch bark and not leather.
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