I have carried a Järvenpää Aito Puukko for a couple of years now. I love it. They make great knives judging from my experience.

My set grew legs a few years ago :O( Treat the sheath with a good beeswax dressing and the birch with tung oil. These blades have very subtle handling advantages. Reverse grip the little puukko with the blade pointed down and edge facing you. Your thumb will find a natural purchase on hte butcap. This makes for controlled scribework, such as grooving wood for arrow fletches, gaff hooks etc. The Lueko is best handled with draw cuts, or pushing into material from the buttcap again. These are superb blades to use with mittens.

Thanks for the advice. I'll have to pick up some Tung oil at Lee Valley Tools...seems like good stuff for a lot of applications. I'm sure it's more durable than what I used which is designed for sealing and protecting high quality cutting boards. Very light and leaves no taste...not an issue on a knife handle.

I cleaned up the blades but didn't polish off the black...just the grease and such. I gave the blades a good dose of Fluid Film and ran the Puukko over my kitchen steel. The burr poppped back and it's quite sharp now.

Hope these knives work much better for you than your last order. ;-)

Time to field test them and report back!

"...Hope these knives work much better for you than your last order..."

Ditto...

Man those are some sweet lookin' knives....i'm jealous...lol

I wish there was a home test for Rockwell hardness. It would appear that in my attempt to eliminate the secondary bevel on the Puukko, I've removed all the diamond from my center EZELap credit card stone.

I didn't want to buy a bench stone but these small pocket stones aren't cutting it for major work like this. I have 2 small DMT stones too. They're holding up much better but are too small for anything more than touch ups. I've already stabbed my thumb by accident LOL.

The steel is also the least stainless I've ever seen. Just while running is across a diamond stone for a little while, the blade rusted a little. I didn't expect it to happen so quickly.

"...I wish there was a home test for Rockwell hardness..."

There are. A quick google brought up a bunch, this is just one. Might be a tad pricey tho...

I think I have worn out a couple of the smaller DMT stones doing this sort of thing. There is a lot of metal on a scandi to remove to keep it flat. I mostly use traditional stones and water stones to do this reprofiling....I have also found you can keep at it for years before you have it just right.

I'm not too concerned with getting it perfect...it wasn't from the factory and likely never will be. It's a workin' knife and not a show piece anyhow.

I think I may go to lee valley tools and invest in some water stones. I've had my eye on some for a while but have always gone with the space age portable fanciness.

I guess old style school deserve an old school sharpening solution. Big stones are also nice because they can be used to hone my axes.