puukko knife - where?

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puukko knife - where?

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Lads, where do I find a ww2-correct, usable puukko knife?

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Servus,

I found one at a small militaria show a couple of weeks ago in Springfield, Virginia:

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Ostfront have a few.......................
http://www.ostfront.com/Merchant2/merch ... iginal_WW2

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Fooking hell the price of those things !! the pattern is still the same now as it was then you can get them here from 16€ to 30 € that beats "65 Yanky Dolla"
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:roll: Sorry darling but you can´t get even good blade on those prices,
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Yes you can.

Finland is full of puukkos. Contact one of the finnish members if he could get you one?
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Yea. Puukko is very important thing in Finnish outfit.

A puukko is the Finnish word for the traditional Finnish or Scandinavian style woodcraft belt-knife that is a tool rather than a weapon. It is a type of hunting knife.

In the Nordic countries, the puukko is an "everyday" knife that is used for everything from hunting, fishing, and garden work to opening boxes in the warehouse. Many traditional puukkos are nowadays manufactured in industrial or near-industrial scale by many companies, Marttiini and Iisakki Järvenpää Oy being the most notable.

The puukko is the only civilian item which can be openly worn as a part of a soldier's combat gear without breaching Finnish Army regulations, and most conscripts bring their own puukkos with them into military service. It is a custom of Finnish conscripts, non-commissioned officers, and officer cadets to carry a decorated and engraved commemorative puukko of their year course as a part of their uniform, not unlike a commemorative dagger. This is rationalized as the carrying of a handy tool, but it also doubles as a symbolic sidearm. Puukkos proved to be good close combat weapons in the Winter war and Continuation war.


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(From the left: first three of knifes are traditional knifes and can be worn with WW2 outfit, penultimate knife is modern Finnish Reserve Officer Course -knife (it have to earn in this notorious "Kirkkojärven marssi"), the last one on a right is modern Finnish (Recon-MP) NCO-course knife. The knife on a below is belonged to my father and is old-time Finnish Reserve NCO-Course's knife.)
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I've used these guys before. Good service, nice knives.
http://www.cloudberrymarket.com/servlet ... Categories
I used to use this chapon Ebay, but Ebay won't let Brits buy knives anymore, perhaps they think we are accident prone or somesuch?
http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/NORDICA-H ... QQ_armrsZ1
The knives don't show up on a standard UK search, but they are there if you can get somebody outside the UK to get them for you.
Good luck, they are a great knife.
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The prices are interesting... quite expensive to sell those there it seems!
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Heeresbergführer wrote:Servus,

I found one at a small militaria show a couple of weeks ago in Springfield, Virginia:

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Horrido!

Wow amazing knife, i want that knife too... really nice..
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I bought what looks like a puukko at a show this weekend, I take it it is Finnish? any ideas on age or name of its style?

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Very nice !
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danke... any ideas?
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