03-27-2017, 07:59 AM
Rupert,
I an happy to make your day
I have not a clue. Traditional the Sami people bought knife blades in Norway from blacksmiths there and the steel and the hardening is unknown.
My blade is a old type of steel the blaxk Smith that put shoes on horses used to cut of the old nails. I made a tang on it + belly and tip. It was made by a old factory named Öberg. They so not exists today.
Try to ask Stromeng about the steel they use.
I do not like Stromeng choppers. They work good - but the blade "vibrate" and I dont like that. My chopper have a thicker blade so it do not vibrate.
The steel shall be hard - but not to hard. Study my blade and you can se that it has been Brocken = it was to hard...
I take my blade to a old black Smith and he put it together again and hardened it veey nicely. The edge is water hardened and the neck is hardened in oil. That makes the edge hard and the neck softer then the edge.
It is a very useful type knife both in the mountains and in the Forest. Today many people use it, not only the Sami people. I can recomend it.
I carry this knife and a smaller normal Sami knife in my knife belt. I see a loop on my pants so that ghe sheath stay along the leg when I move. It is not nice when you sit down on the ground and the sheath hit the ground bedore your ass - and the pommel hit yiur lower ribs...it hurts a lot when you run, a knife like this starts to "swing" horistontally - and it will hit your hand... It also hurts a lot - so make this loop...
The sheath in the picture is by my design. When I lived with yhe Sami people they lern me how ro make Sami knifes - but I soon start to my own design and own pattern on my knifes.
My oldest, and youngest sons both work with reindeers. I have still many friends along the Sami people and I try to be updated what happens in the area where I lived. Today it is "civilizised" with roads and so on. I can go by car in some houers that take 2 days by boat or 1 week per foot... The "feeling" i get driving a car and see places where I have slept beside a campfire after a long days walking is not so nice.
The place where I live is as it was before - but there is no hogans left, the Sami people live in houses today. It is called development - and I so not like this development...perhaps I am to old today and dream my self back to the "good old days" well, it was very nice days when I was young and lived there, today it is to much developed for me...
Thomas
I an happy to make your day
I have not a clue
. Traditional the Sami people bought knife blades in Norway from blacksmiths there and the steel and the hardening is unknown.My blade is a old type of steel the blaxk Smith that put shoes on horses used to cut of the old nails. I made a tang on it + belly and tip. It was made by a old factory named Öberg. They so not exists today.
Try to ask Stromeng about the steel they use.
I do not like Stromeng choppers. They work good - but the blade "vibrate" and I dont like that. My chopper have a thicker blade so it do not vibrate.
The steel shall be hard - but not to hard. Study my blade and you can se that it has been Brocken = it was to hard...
I take my blade to a old black Smith and he put it together again and hardened it veey nicely. The edge is water hardened and the neck is hardened in oil. That makes the edge hard and the neck softer then the edge.
It is a very useful type knife both in the mountains and in the Forest. Today many people use it, not only the Sami people. I can recomend it.
I carry this knife and a smaller normal Sami knife in my knife belt. I see a loop on my pants so that ghe sheath stay along the leg when I move. It is not nice when you sit down on the ground and the sheath hit the ground bedore your ass - and the pommel hit yiur lower ribs...it hurts a lot
when you run, a knife like this starts to "swing" horistontally - and it will hit your hand... It also hurts a lot - so make this loop...The sheath in the picture is by my design. When I lived with yhe Sami people they lern me how ro make Sami knifes - but I soon start to my own design and own pattern on my knifes.
My oldest, and youngest sons both work with reindeers. I have still many friends along the Sami people and I try to be updated what happens in the area where I lived. Today it is "civilizised" with roads and so on. I can go by car in some houers that take 2 days by boat or 1 week per foot... The "feeling" i get driving a car and see places where I have slept beside a campfire after a long days walking is not so nice.
The place where I live is as it was before - but there is no hogans left, the Sami people live in houses today. It is called development - and I so not like this development...perhaps I am to old today and dream my self back to the "good old days"
well, it was very nice days when I was young and lived there, today it is to much developed for me...Thomas