Love the high scandi edge. Beautiful birch handle too. Thanks for your review of a proper cutting tool. Mark

Excellent video. Thank you 😊 I never knew Vaara was differential tempered. I watched a video of it batoning and you could clearly see spine was affected, bunged. Why people want to do everything with a small knife except cut & slice I’ll never know.

Beautiful knife. Terrific video! Thank you!

I love high scandy puukkos- nothing comes close to the pleasure they give when carving.The Very light weight gives perfect control and the handle is done absolutely right.

Thanks for the information. Helped me make a decision.

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

+frankgon4 Nice to hear it helped somebody :) Thanks for watching.

I got mine and absolutely love it. Beautiful work of art! I rubbed some bees wax on the handle to kinda seal the wood and it really brings out the wood grain and color. Will have my own knife review this spring. God bless!

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

+aHigher Power I like to treat that birch wood as well from time to time as it makes it look and smell really nice. Thanks for watching.

Dzięki za istotne wieści o tym nożyku. O tym nie wiedziałem. Ale ergonomicznie to cacko! Pozdro!

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

+Pawel Dudzinski Proszę bardzo :) Jeden z moich ulubionych. Zwłaszcza do strugania bo nie poluję zbyt często. Również pozdrawiam.

Great video, thanks!

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

+Bas Q. Thanks for watching

This is the perfect knife to accompany a large hatchet or small forest axe.

Будьте здоровы Саймон.Давно работаю практически всей линейкой Хеймо радость это приносит. Спасибо

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

+Руслан Бондоренко You're welcome and thanks for watching :)

I worked 3 days in the garden doing major cutting and trimming. I was surprised how effective a puukko can be.

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

+F4Wildcat Especially for cutting woody stuff.

Thanks for a nice explanation of the characteristics. I've had my eye on an Ahti leuku, and probably should expect similar qualities in the carbon steel blade.

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

+Random Button Pusher They generally don't mess up as far as I can tell. Those micro flaws are only noticeable to someone as picky as me :) And most of their carbon steel knives will be selectively heat treated. Although, some of their new blades have even greater hardness discrepancies - 52 spine 64(!) edge, and others have three temper zones I believe.

@RandomButtonPusher

8 жыл бұрын

Wow, that is quite a hardness range. Beautiful knives, "micro flaws" and all.

Nóż wybrany i kupiony, jest niesamowicie ostry, polecam. Generalnie lubuje się w nożach skandynawskich mam ich kilka generalnie prawie całą kolekcję Roselliego, ale postanowiłem odmienić coś innego i warto, pozatym jest to dość tani nóż, a wykonanie i jako nóż chyba nic lepszego nie miałem w rękach.

I have this as my main bushcraft and hunting knife, it is an excellent tool. Fire steel is no problem as I have a seperate hard steel striker attached to the lanyard - simple!

I have this knife and really enjoy it. Good to hear your thoughts on it!

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

+edgeobserver Nice to hear you like the knife and the video :) Thanks for watching.

Thumbs up. I really have come to pay attention to your reviews. Your videos are far more objective and informative. Your hand saw review was great as well. I bought a Silky and your spot on.

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

+aHigher Power Thank you. i'm glad my reviews are helpful :)

Jus now I got same. Nice qiality of sheth and comfortable handle.

Have you heard about the malanika puukkos? Amazing handcraftship as well! Would love to see you reviewing one of these ;) Nice Vid!

@SimonsDiscoveries

6 жыл бұрын

I have not. I'm googling it right now :) Thanks.

👍 Thank you, interesting video. Looks just like my Kellam Wolverine, except less expensive.

@SimonsDiscoveries

2 жыл бұрын

Yup. They're very similar.

Dziękuję! :)

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

+Hubert Maz Proszę :)

That's a beautiful knife

@SimonsDiscoveries

6 жыл бұрын

It sure is. Thanks for watching.

Vaara is also the Finnish word for a large, forest-covered and (usually) rocky hill. Names of Finnish knives usually reference the wilderness or wildlife in one way or the other, so I doubt the name was chosen to reference danger.

@SimonsDiscoveries

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks. My Finnish is a bit rusty ;)

I bought and put handles on two lauri blades, one has the visible hardening line on it. They are by far my best cutting knives. I squared the spine and was surprised when it didn't spark the ferro rod. Don't really want to use the tip so i have a piece of hacksaw blade attached to the rod.

@SimonsDiscoveries

7 жыл бұрын

Yup. Having some type of scraper is a good idea when carrying these knives. I like them anyway. They are very good looking and fuctional.

Oh man wish I would have watched this video. So sad know I can't use a fire steel. Still can't wait to get mine.

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

+aHigher Power Technically, you can use the tip or the cutting edge if you really have to but it's not gonna be very comfortable or effective.

Noticed that the brass bolster on the vaara vas a little dark. If you use some scrubbing detergent and a toothbrush it will be as good as new

@SimonsDiscoveries

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I like it a little aged though.

I got the kellam puukko. Look just like this knife.

You mention that this knife probably doesn't have the appropriate metal properties to be a main bushcraft knife. Would you recommend the stainless Ahti knives for that purpose instead?

@SimonsDiscoveries

7 жыл бұрын

It can be a bushcraft knife if you don't mind having to strike your ferro rod with a separate striker, not relying on your knife as a traditional flint striker and not battoning (heavily), which I guess is rather a big deal for most. But yeah, except for heavy battoning and sparking off of flint, the stainless version will do the ferro rod part if you sharpen the spine. Some spines may even already be sharpened.

Do you know if the blade is also glued inside the handle? Or it's just pinned? I'm asking because you said il got loose when batoning. Also if you square off the spine doesn't it spark the ferro rod? I tried with a normal carbon lauri blade(everywhere i looked it says it's just high carbon steel) and it produced sparks.

@SimonsDiscoveries

7 жыл бұрын

I honestly don't know if it's glued. The smaller one seems to be but the one that got loose probably wasn't. Maybe mine was just an odd screwup. No it won't spark even if the spine seems sharp. The ones that do are evenly tempered throughout their length and width. Some, like mine, are selectively heat treated and just too soft at the spine. I could get a spark from the edge but I wasn't gonna ruin it just to show it in the video :) Here's an example of such a blade from lauri www.moonrakerknives.co.uk/laurikb.html They call it zone tempered.

@usercalin

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the reply! That sucks for me... I hoped they would want to advertise that and it was only the simple blade. I like the ideea of the PT blade but i always end up loosing the little metal thing i use on the firesteel:)

@SimonsDiscoveries

7 жыл бұрын

Calin X Many lauri blades are just simple carbon or stainless blade and will work for you.

@usercalin

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, I know. I had a 10 cm blade for a friend and works great. If only i could make the handle looking as good as the ones from Ahti:)

@SimonsDiscoveries

7 жыл бұрын

Calin X Well, I guess that's why we pay professionals sometimes ;)

The heat treatment Lauin Metalli is performing is not about leaving the spine of the knife softer than the cutting edge. What they do is they make the core of the blade harder ~59HRC while the sides are ~53HRC. This gives a result similar to laminated steel but they obtain it by special heat treatment.

@SimonsDiscoveries

3 жыл бұрын

How would you do that with one, homogeneous piece of metal? What you're describing is only possible by laminating or sandwiching one piece of harder steel between two softer pieces. You can't separately heat-treat the core and the outside of the blade but you can harden the edge and leave the spine softer. The only thing that comes close to what you're proposing is case hardening but that wouldn't exactly harden the core. Just the edge to a certain, limited depth.

@projekctx8646

3 жыл бұрын

@@SimonsDiscoveries Actually this is something I'm also very curious about but I think the trick is in multiple times shock tempering

日本ではkellam製のpuukkoが有名ですが、Ahtiはあまり知られていません。 見た目が酷似していますが、性能には違いが有るのでしょうか？ In Japan, puukko made by kellam is famous, but Ahti is not well known. It looks very similar, but is there any difference in performance?

Got the Knife it’s a great night you should buy a promise you’ll like it

Nożyk zupełnie nie w moim typie. Ja lubię coś większego - ostrze najlepiej 13cm, drop point, okładki z micarty lub z G10 i obowiązkowo pochwa z kydexu. Całkiem możliwe, że jeszcze nie dorosłem do tego typu noży. Szymek, fajnie dobierasz muzykę do filmów.

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

+Krul Mateusz Dzięki. Mnie też się muzyka podoba :) Niekoniecznie trzeba dorastać. Wszystko zależy od przeznaczenia. No, i trochę od gustu. Jak nie rzeźbisz i nie polujesz, to taki nóż najwyżej mozesz sobie na półce postawić, żeby ładnie wyglądał. Ale to też zależy od tego co dla ciebie jest ładne :)

@Mateo-vx5hx

8 жыл бұрын

Ani nie rzeźbię, ani nie poluję. Ale zapolować bym sobie chciał... Kojarzysz twórczość nożową Torbé? On idealnie trafia w mój gust - jakby czytał mi w myślach :D A tobie jak podchodzą jego noże?

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

Krul Mateusz Nie znam ale zaraz sie zapoznam :)

@Mateo-vx5hx

8 жыл бұрын

Tu masz jego FB: facebook.com/torbecustomknives

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

Krul Mateusz Już sobie znalazłem :) To coś w stylu takiego chińskiego Ganzo ;) Tylko, że to folder. Zrobię kiedy recenzję, to zobaczysz, o którego mi chodzi. Będzie coś w twoim stylu. Niestety jedyne co mam, to chińszczyzna ale ta jest akurat bardzo przyzwoita :) Chociaż... mam też jednego TLIMa, który powinien ci pasować.

Corctly. But only to lpt blades. Simple carbon blades a same hardnes. Good luck to you!

I have that exact knife.

Nice knife ..Steel 80crv2?

@SimonsDiscoveries

3 жыл бұрын

It's possible. All they said on the website at the time I was ordering it, was 'high carbon, Lauri metalli'. If you google what the high carbon lauri metalli is, it tends to be 80CrV2.

приличное железо и снято отменно

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

+Руслан Бондоренко спасибо

3:08 I was waiting for a little lambwoolfire...

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

Nope. Wasn't gonna let that happen ;)

Zrób filmik ze swoimi wszystkim nożami :)

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

+Piotrox fanpirana Mam taki plan ale najpierw muszę je wszystkie pozbierać do kupy bo są w dwóch różnych miejscach. Za dwa tygodnie będę miał wszystko pod jednym dachem :)

@piotrox0x

8 жыл бұрын

:)

Thanks to this movie I know now which knives not to buy :) Totally not my type of a knife. Both looks and purpose it's made for. I'm more into David Canterbury's philosophy of a knife. Nevertheless I like all of your movies :)

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

+Pawel Kwiatkowski Some people like it, some don't :) From the practical point of view I don't think I'd choose it as my primary survival knife unless I had no choice. But I have and use many very different knives that don't necessarily have to have something to do with survival. Kitchen knives for example. Thanks.

Tori!

Wolałbyś by ten nóż był zahartowany całkowicie? Czy hartowanie selektywne ma jakąś przewagę nad całkowitym? Z tego co wiem, hartuje się tak siekiery.

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

+Siwy ... i niektóre parangi/maczety i miecze. Dawniej robiło się tak między innymi z oszczędności - ta większa, miękka część nie musi być z dobrej, wysokowęglowej stali. Nie znam się na mieczach ale jeśli chodzi o siekiery to zaleta jest taka, że nie pękają. Niby się nie powinno ale na dobrą sprawę, to dzięki takiemu hartowaniu można nimi i lód rozbijać i kamienie łupać (mogą się przy tym odkształcić i poluzować ale raczej nie pękną). Taki ciężki kawał stali na długim trzonku ma sporą energię kinetyczną. Jak źle trafisz i poleci w kamień, to zahartowana na 60 HRC siekiera mogłaby potrzaskać. Tomahawki Cold Steel mają siekierzyska z monostali 1055 i nie pękają ale one są znacznie lżejsze no i jednak nie trzymają tak ostrości bo to dość miękka stal sprężynowa. Podobnie jest z nożami. Jeśli zrobisz cały nóż zahartowany na 62-64 HRC, to będzie oczywiście bardzo długo trzymał ostrość (o ile się nie wyszczerbi) ale złamie się jak pilnik przy pierwszej okazji. A jak mu dasz grzbiecik ze stali odpuszczonej do 52 HRC, to możesz go nawet młotkiem tłuc i co najwyżej się powgniata tu i tam. Mam podobny fiński nóż hartowany jednolicie i wolę jednak Ahti. Ale raczej bardziej jako tradycyjnie wykonaną ciekawostkę i taki nożowy snobizm :)

Probably a Lauri blade. Lauri makes blades for several knife makers.

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

+888zzz It is a Lauri blade.

@x0kuu

7 жыл бұрын

888zzz most puukkosmiths hammer their own blades

are you a finnish man

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

+bern bren No, I'm Polish.

А как Вы смотрите на железо от старины Розелли

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

+Руслан Бондоренко You mean the super hard Ultra High Carbon steel? Haven't used it but I'd really like to :)

In finnish "veitsi" means knife, whereas "puukko" is basically a hunting knife

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

Kiitos :)

@artofstormdancing3319

8 жыл бұрын

Puukko is actually more of a multi purpose tool. In the past everyone had a puukko and they used it from woodcarving to eating and gutting fish etc. I'd say that puukko is a sub-type of knife, I'd call it more something like utility knife than a hunting knife. I think that hunting knives have that blood groove or something. Puukko is just a name for a certain type of knife, like leuku is for those Lapland knives. Veitsi means knife and that can be used when speaking of puukkos too.

Actually puukko (techniclly) doesn't mean knife in Finnish. Veitsi would mean knife. Puukko means that one type of knife we have.

@SimonsDiscoveries

7 жыл бұрын

Ah, thank you.

@lagucegothsong5559

7 жыл бұрын

Simon's Discoveries It's not a big deal. And in Finnish we aren't picky about words

@UncleHam1337

7 жыл бұрын

I´d say you eat and prepare food with veitsi, pretty much everything else is saved for puukko, for example stabbing your best friend while drunk.

@juicy8268

5 жыл бұрын

Uncle Ham maybe Finland is Scandinavian after all

valyrian steel

@SimonsDiscoveries

8 жыл бұрын

Lauri Metalli sounds almost as 'fantasy' as that ;)

Тяжело по английски писать.... Lauri is making not good blades( ahti buy lauri blades and use in their knifes) they are very soft steel. I try the hardnes of lauri carbon 125 on my factory and hardnes is 49 hrc. Polar carbon 50. You can watch it onbmy youtube chanal. Sory for my english.

@SimonsDiscoveries

6 жыл бұрын

Lauri make dozens of blades from different steels, with different heattreat. Some of them are zone tempered or selectively heattreated, so most of the blade is gonna be soft. But the edge itself is said to be 60-61 HRC in this particular model. I have another one that says 64 HRC edge and 53 HRC spine. I watched your video and it seems you never actually measured the hardness of the edge so that's probably why it came out so soft.

Kaç tl bıcak

@SimonsDiscoveries

3 жыл бұрын

What's tl?

puukko isnt knife knife=veitsi puukko doesnt have right translation the handle isnt just ordinary birch its visakoivu its very hard and it only grow in lapland. puukkos are very durable they dont loosen if its proberly made.

@traskila59

7 жыл бұрын

THE_0sku Visakoivu translates to curly birch and it can be grown anywhere... its just a mutation of regular birch.

@x0kuu

7 жыл бұрын

olli Syrjänen no ei oo

@traskila59

7 жыл бұрын

THE_0sku ja milläköhän perusteella ei oo? Mee www.visaseura.fi/tietoa-visakoivusta/visakon-perustaminen/ tonne sivulle ja lue sieltä missä maatyypissä voi visakoivua kasvattaa. sen jälkeen katso missäpäin suomessa semmosta maatyyppiä on. Ja sen jälkeen voit huomata että sellaista maatyyppiä on joka puolella Suomea, ihan Hangosta Petsamoon.

@traskila59

7 жыл бұрын

THE_0sku Kannattais varmaan hankkia tietoa aiheesta ennenkun alat kommentoimaan. Olis toi Englannin kielitaitokin ihan hyvä olla olemassa.

@traskila59

7 жыл бұрын

THE_0sku Ja nyt kun olen näyttänyt sinulle lähteen jonka mukaan visaa voi kasvattaa missä päin Suomea vaan, niin voisitko linkittää minulle jonkun lähteen jossa väitettäisiin että sitä kasvaa vain lapissa.

There is one big fault with that knife. It's too pretty to use!

@SimonsDiscoveries

6 жыл бұрын

That's true :)

No a survival or a bushcraft knife, what this fairy is talking about. That knife can handle every situation where you girls can put yourself into.Period.

Buy your knives from finland, your boots from germany, purses from italy and your boose from russia

@SimonsDiscoveries

7 жыл бұрын

Or Poland ;)