What is a Puukko knife? A Puukko is a knife Finnish/Swedish or Scandinavian origin and in the Finnish language “Puukko” means “knife.” As such, it is unnecessary to say “Puukko knife,” as it would be redundate but is still a commonly used term. These special knives are some of the best performing knives in the [...]
Archive for December, 2006
Kellam Christmas Party
This saturday I attended the famous finnish puukko knife company’s yearly Kellam Knives Christmas party at their South Florida headquarters in Lantana, FL. Friends and owners Jouni and Harriet Kellokoski succeeded in making this event an eclectic puukko filled evening. We sat and drank Finnish coffee and chatted about the knife business and [...]
Knife Etiquette is very important in our industry. If you plan to become a knife collector/connoisseur and attend shows you should conduct yourself accordingly :) It is always important when visiting knife show booths or meeting interesting knife people that you not offend them or disrespect their knives.
Damascus knife blades are wonderful. These are the blades that have swirling patterns in them. Damascus blades [...]
Knife Sharpening is perhaps one of the most popular knife conversations I have heard during knife talk. I have seen so many different sharpening techniques. One technique in particular has proven to be very efficient. This technique I observed while watching a master smith who had been passed down his smithy skills from generations before him. He [...]
One of the first knives I ever knew was the Buck Knife. My father always had one when I was a child and I always wanted one too. Buck Knives has managed to establish one of the (if not the) most successful hunting and folding knife brands of our time. Their very versatile product line offers everthing [...]
Big kudos to the Axis Lock! I remember when I first laid eyes on the “Axis Lock“. I was of course thinking…Oh geez everyone has to go and invent their own thing now don’t they? But after picking it up and fooling with it for a while I started to realized what a wonderful system it actually was!
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