Yeah definitely looks old style Finnish knife. Although noways the back is almost always straight, so that is more elaborate than is mostly sold as nowadays.
Yes, puukko is the Finnish name for a knife (used for fishing, hunting, fighting…). The Western Finland puukko knives have a hook at the end, if I remember correctly, but these might look different from region to region.
It’s not a typical puukko design but a design that’s known as a partiopuukko/scout knife, or metsästyspuukko/hunting knife. The word “puukko” is used both to mean a specific type of Finnish/Nordic knife design, and as a general use word for many types of knives. The knife in the pic has design elements that are not common in traditional Finnish puukko designs, like a very large clip point blade, the hand guard and the handle shape.
If you search for Iisakki Järvenpää partiopuukko, you can find the current similar designs from the same company.
IDK if that is a traditional knife in Finland, but I defo would climb a pine while holding that in my teeth and jump on an elk and slice it’s throat before it knew what happened.
A youngsters Puukko if it is one. With the wrist guard. also the blade is pretty abnormal. Still the blades outer form is good. If it is good in your hand, just call it a puukko and tell everyone you have a Nordic war knife 😉
Not a “true” puukko, no. For example, the blade shape and the existence of a hand guard are wrong for a true puukko, plus details of the handle look a little off. May be some variant though, like a partiopuukko (scout knife), and could certainly get called puukko in normal conversation in Finnish (specifying “in Finnish”, as at least to me, using the word puukko in a different language implies a “true puukko”, as for example in English, knife would be a similar more generally applicable word).
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Yeah definitely looks old style Finnish knife. Although noways the back is almost always straight, so that is more elaborate than is mostly sold as nowadays.
Yes, puukko is the Finnish name for a knife (used for fishing, hunting, fighting…). The Western Finland puukko knives have a hook at the end, if I remember correctly, but these might look different from region to region.
It’s not a typical puukko design but a design that’s known as a partiopuukko/scout knife, or metsästyspuukko/hunting knife. The word “puukko” is used both to mean a specific type of Finnish/Nordic knife design, and as a general use word for many types of knives. The knife in the pic has design elements that are not common in traditional Finnish puukko designs, like a very large clip point blade, the hand guard and the handle shape.
If you search for Iisakki Järvenpää partiopuukko, you can find the current similar designs from the same company.
IDK if that is a traditional knife in Finland, but I defo would climb a pine while holding that in my teeth and jump on an elk and slice it’s throat before it knew what happened.
A youngsters Puukko if it is one. With the wrist guard. also the blade is pretty abnormal. Still the blades outer form is good. If it is good in your hand, just call it a puukko and tell everyone you have a Nordic war knife 😉
Not a “true” puukko, no. For example, the blade shape and the existence of a hand guard are wrong for a true puukko, plus details of the handle look a little off. May be some variant though, like a partiopuukko (scout knife), and could certainly get called puukko in normal conversation in Finnish (specifying “in Finnish”, as at least to me, using the word puukko in a different language implies a “true puukko”, as for example in English, knife would be a similar more generally applicable word).