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 several other topics. I had a chance to browse through their ever-popular custom knife collection. Jouni showed me some of their interesting and pleasant Finnish Sauna scents and Sauna accessories for my newly aquired home sauna. I set aside a 4-scent variety pack for myself at some point during the night. As I pulled my rare Murray Carter folding knife from my pocket Jouni proceeded to discuss how few Murray Carter folders had actually been made. I was carrying the 8′th one ever made in my pocket that night. Numbered at 008 the base of the blade. Murray Carter stopped making them soon after he started. I suppose he decided that it wasn’t cost effective to continue to make them. The night ended in the lounge area with an afterparty group discussion where we passed around several large samples of Mastadon Ivory that were dated to be over 10,000 years old. One was even said to be around 15,000 years old. The ivory tusk of a wooly mammoth is considered to be extremely precious and is often used in the handles of extremely valuable custom knives. All in all it was an interesting event and I look forward to next year.
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