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Old 11-09-2004, 08:41 AM
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Sami-inspired knife

This is my latest creation. It's partly inspired by the Sami or Laplanders' knives. The blade is a Finnish Lauri blade, which looks like it could be "san mai", or high carbon steel sandwiched between stainless steel sides. There is a faint line along the edge which suggests this. The sides are black.

The handle is made from the stem of a moose antler, with birch root and red vulcanfiber spacers. It's been polished and coated with carnauba wax for protection.

The sheath is orthopedic leather with a vegetable tanned belt loop.



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Old 11-09-2004, 04:52 PM
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Nicely done, Nicholas. Clean, traditional styling.

Was the blade sold to you as a laminated blade ? If there is the faint line near the edge, it probably is... Jason.


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Old 11-09-2004, 05:04 PM
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The blade wasn't sold to me at all. I got it from an online acquaintance who in turn had bought the blade from Brisa in Finland, if I remember correctly.


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Old 11-10-2004, 02:02 PM
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Sorry, you both are mistaken. I have previously built a knife with this same blade. This blade is defferentially tempered. That's why there is a Hamon line along the edge. This is one heck of a good blade. Scarry sharp!!!!

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By the way... great looking knife!!!
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Old 12-18-2004, 11:52 PM
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nice knife, I like that style.

I bought a lauri carbon, not the pt one though, and it has a secondary bevel, does yours?
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Old 12-19-2004, 04:24 AM
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First of all, the line doesn't look like a hamon. I have seen lots of hamon temper lines, and the line on the Lauri blade definitely looks more like a joint where two pieces of metal overlap..

Second, as far as I can make out, the edge is a perfect V-shape, no secondary bevel at all.


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Old 12-19-2004, 04:53 AM
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I would say that it is a laminated blade, thats the most comon here in Scandinavia. Of course that doesn?t mean that it must be laminated, but it probably is by the description.
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Old 12-19-2004, 11:06 PM
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Lauri dosnt make laminated blades.

lauri does make a pt blade. Its progressivly tempered, my standard blades feature no such hammon line. but they all but one had secondary micro bevels. The guy at the grinder must have gotten lazy and didnt notice it.

anychance of a closeup photo?
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Old 12-20-2004, 03:32 AM
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I'm not an expert on the Lauri line of knife blades, but most manufacturers carry more than one kind. All carbon steel, all stainless steel, laminated carbon and stainless steel, etc. I know for a fact that Frosts in Mora, Sweden, do all three of the mentioned kinds.

Anyway, the line I saw on the Lauri blade I have is very difficult to spot, and it changes appearence depending on the angle you view it from - either dark against a light reflection or light against a dark reflection, and it's really thin like a hairline crack. That's what lead me to believe that it's a laminated blade. You can just see it in the picture below. You really have to look at it at an angle, against reflected light and shadow, to be able to see it at all.




As for the edge bevel, all I've managed to find out is that the Lauri blades are supposed to have just one bevel, and the blade I have appears to have just that.



Thanks for looking!


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Old 12-20-2004, 09:13 AM
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I'm not any blade expert, but it dosnt really look like a hammon to me, but their blade manufacturing could be different.
I checked out brisa.fi to look at the different lines, and It clearly states that its differentially tempered. The picture also shows a line very much like yours. They must use some process that makes it cleaner then usual.
http://www.brisa.fi/lauript.html
Lauri blades are great though, good steel, and hard edges with cheap prices.

a couple of my blades feature a micro bevel, about 1 mm, but they are there so you cant sharpen them the traditional way , but you have to remove the bevel to sharpen it.

After all its a 6 dollar blade lol I think they spend more time on the more expensive blades to make sure there is no little secondary bevel.
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Old 12-20-2004, 03:45 PM
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It is traditional for most Scandinavian blades to be flat ground w/o a secondary bevel. They are very sharp!

Nice piece!


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