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The Finnish Puukko - Part 1 Time the Art of Making Puukko Was Nearly Lost KNEWSLETTTER IN A KNUTSHELL Finnish Puukko Knives 2014 OKCA Club knife Spoon Carver 2015 Show Application Our international membership is happily involved with “Anything that goes ‘cut’!” October 2014 70s as people left the country and went to the cities. During this The Finnish Puukko - Part 1 time the art of making puukko was nearly lost. Some models Theo Eichorn had been, like the Toijala which is only newly resurrected. With the start of the Suomen Puukkoseura, the Finnish Puukko Society, somewhere around 1994(?), those who were interested in puukko had a new center which sparked a real Renaissance in puukko making. I was lucky enough to be sponsored by one of the founding members, Taisto Kuortti, who has done much to promote the appreciation and understanding of puukko and its history. Taisto works tirelessly, driving from one end of the Country to the other, teaching how to make the various classic models of puukko through the extended educational program. Very old Tommi The easiest way for me to talk about The history of the Finnish puukko is far too vast a subject to puukko is to look try and cover here, so I will try to give a brief capsule of the at what is known as handmade knives and talk about some of the things I learned “country” puukko while studying in Finland that I found interesting. Right now and the classic there isn’t much published in English about puukko; however, models. I will also as I write, Anssi Ruusuvuori is working to get his book, Puukon briefl y discuss Sami My first Rautalampi Historia Volume 1&2, published in English in a condensed knives and modern form. This major work covers the history of the puukko and handmade knives in Finland. how it relates to European history in general. It covers all the known models, handmade, manufactured, WWII “trench art” The knife is knives, miniatures, Sami knives and on. interesting among tools as it has a One thing I was tendency to become interested to learn so personalized. A was that puukko have hoe would have been not been especially a very important tool well studied, even Non traditional puukko to an early agrarian in Finland. As it society; but we don’t see them personalized, decorated and goes, often we do worn as a status symbol as knives are. They can say a lot about not notice things that their owner, where they are from, what their status is, what they seem so common Old Unna-Niibas do for a living. This was very true in Finland up until the last 60 and mundane. This is years or so, when Finland went through its major urbanization. often the case when we study the history of knives. We know Back in the puukko’s the Lewis and Clark expedition brought knives with them. golden years (mid Certainly, they could not have made the trek without them. 1800s - about 1930s) They are listed in the itinerary, but only in number. There is every man wore a no description about what kind of knives they carried! So it A very old and well loved Tommi puukko every day, was with puukko, an item so well known that it was taken for it was part of his dress. If you were wealthy, your puukko granted. As Finland became industrialized so quickly after the might be a refi ned piece used more at your summer house than War, there is quite a marked transition in the 50s through the Continued on page 5 bowl). The ‘Pocket Jack’ is a 4-1/4″ Spoon Carver To Knife Hobbyist Or The pocketknife; it includes 4-blades: detail knife (1-5/8″ long), straight gouge (1- Blades Of A Spoon Carver 7/8″ long), scorp (1-1/16″ long) and Ronald Torres V-scorp (1” long). Its design and blades The hatchet is used make it obvious for the special needs of to split the limb and a carver. The uniqueness of including provide spoon-blank a gouge allows me to enjoy the hobby shaping. I let the outside on those rare non-rainy days. It grain twists and turns is also a great conversation starter for of the shrub’s growth friends and passer-by audiences. pattern determine the The detail curves and fi nish carving are design of the spoon. done with a Ross Oar Carver pocketknife: I use a Gransfors the Oar Carver knives were designed Bruks carving axe by Ross Oar and are manufactured for the quick shaping in the USA by Queen Cutlery. Oar and the “Kubben” Carvers come in the following varieties: hand hatchet for tight, Fixed Blade, Double Bladed Folding exacting work of a Pocketknife and Single Bladed Locking spoon. The “Kubben” Pocketknife. I use the Double Bladed comes with a forged There are still a few of us that the weekend Folding Pocketknife – Version II which carbon steel head, a short 10” handle dressing ritual includes choosing the has one detail blade 1-3/16″ long and and with a leather sheath. Every Bruks appropriate knife to attach to the belt and one 1-3/4″ long. The blades are made axe is marked with the initials of its wear for the day. For me the weekend from D2 tool steel (high carbon, high blacksmith or maker (mine is marked includes a car travel kit of blades to chromium) which has excellent edge MM for Mattias Mattsson). The website support my spoon carving hobby. My holding properties, and all knives are includes interesting information on axe car kit includes a pruning saw; two especially made for woodcarving. history, design, axe knowledge, using Gransfors Bruks: a small hatchet and a an axe, products, production, courses The fi nal steps are sanding with multiple carving axe; a Flexcut pocket carver; a and the list of blacksmiths. http://www. grits, soaking the spoon in mineral oil and Ross Oar pocket carver (attached to my gransforsbruk.com/ I found this axe lastly polishing with kitchen utensil wax. belt) and a stack of sandpaper in various at Hardwick’s Hardware store in the grits. It is becoming more common for This hobby started back in the Cub University of Washington district. me to slam on the brakes when I see a Scouts; earning a ‘Whittlin’ Chip’ and neighbor or stranger pruning or removing For the next step, I move on to carving followed into Boy Scouts with the a tree or shrub from their ‘Totin’ Chip.’ Through the years, I’ve yard. Some think it gone through a dozen pocket and fi xed- odd of me asking for a blade knives. My latest blade acquisition 3” thick by 12-15” long has been a Husqvarna Forest Axe to help limb or trunk from some make the wood collecting a little easier. unique wood specimen; Lastly, for those collectors and but the conversation knifemakers, I encourage that you dress makes for a quick, with one of your prized possessions friendly acquaintance and use it for the purpose for which it once I explain I plan was intended. If you are still hesitant, on converting their may I suggest that you start with a waste into a useful short, fi xed blade steak knife. Imagine kitchen spoon with just how you will impress your friends at a pocketknife. Some the upcoming weekend barbeque when exceptional wood you ceremoniously unsheathe it, let its fi nds have been from sharp blade fl ash in the sunshine and a Smoke Tree (dark brown with bright out the bowl. I recently began using a then proceed to expertly and quickly yellow veining), Rhododendron (reddish Flexcut Pocket Jack for Carvin’ when separate a rack of ribs. Let the resulting brown) and my favorite – the various carving away from home. (At home I conversation begin about your hobby English and Portuguese Laurels (tight use a Mora 3” fi xed-blade wood carving with the admirers… grained, clear light yellow). blade and a Mora hook-knife for the Page 2 this, and continue to make this, a best- Ronald OKCA Knews ever-event. A few years back we begged Torres for & Musings out and were hopeful to have new their words ibdennis blood resurrect the organization. It did in this issue. not work out well so we took our deep More words The December Mini-Show..... breathes and stepped back in. We are are needed, good with that. Our support is good as and I know Of course we will be having a December shown by the log of articles we have for that they are Mini-Show on December 06, 2014. It the Knewslettter. The monthly meetings out there. has become a standard issue of whether are good and well attended. We still Please share the weather will be weather enough would like more of everything, but this your knowledge, as this Knewslettter for us. We are a tough group so why is good today. Do not step back. Step is a perfect medium for contributions not? Reserve your table well before up. Reserve a table at all our Shows. from our membership. The Knewslettter December in order to have one or two Northwest Knife Collectors Show is what fl oats the boat, so to speak, and as you need. Tables will be $40.00 each marks where the buoys and bowies are. to offset the costs involved. No form is We did a trip to the NWKC Show in Hey if Bob can write articles on napkins, necessary. Just send the payment with a Kelso WA. This is a very nice show with what is holding you back? note on the check.
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