Hallo,
Ich habe dieses Messer geschenkt bekommen. Es ist wirklich schön und sieht großartig aus. Ich habe mich nur gefragt, wofür diese Art von Messer normalerweise verwendet wird. Auch wenn es sich um ein Geschenk handelt und es großartig aussieht, möchte ich mir lieber eine praktische Erinnerung an die Verwendung holen, anstatt es einfach irgendwo in einer Schachtel liegen zu lassen.
Wenn also jemand sagen könnte, wofür diese hauptsächlich verwendet werden, wäre das großartig! 🇫🇮
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Von SpiritualReturn675
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It’s a general knife, to used on whatever.
Though honestly this one looks like it’s more intended to be a decoration or a collectible.
The style is that of a traditional Finnish everyday knife. When the country was still heavily agricultural, it was common for most men to wear a knife on their belts. Obviously, this is made to be a presentation piece celebrating 100 years of Finnish independence. It is known as „puukko knife“ in most English speaking references, but really puukko just means knife in Finnish.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puukko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puukko)
Just a word of caution,  you are gonna scratch the blade if you use it with a fork or any metal objet. I would say, it’s a good idea to keep it for decoration and if you want to use one daily I would suggest buying another one 🙂
Finnish puukko is used for absolutely everything, carving, hunting, bushcraft, food preparation and so on.
When you need a knife, puukko will serve you in every situation.
It’s… A knife. Use it to… Cut stuff.
They were general purpose knife you would carry around all the time. Women would carry them around too, though usually bit smaller versions, sometimes to better fit the hand but some propably were smaller for cultural reasons.
Perhaps most commonly used for light woodwork, for example if you needed to make a fire you could make something like a feather stick [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feather_stick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feather_stick)
Id say just use it as a regular knife, its just as good as other marttiini puukkos, just prettier.
Just use it as you would use a normal gift item. Do not try to make the blade glowing red in fire, do not bash metal or rocks with it, do not rob a liquor store with it. Do normal things where a knife is useful.
A rule of thumb considering jubilee items: everybody thinks it’s special, so everybody tries to preserve them in pristine condition, in a box at the top shelve. That makes them pretty common find when your grandchildren sell them online as a tool grandpa never cared to use.
If you never wish to sell it, use it as something you will never sell
It’s puukko, with some decorations, but still a puukko.
This is normally at glass cupboard
As said, general purpose tool.
Note: batoning is not traditionally a thing you do with these knives. The Scandi grind (type of sharpening the blade), and the rat tail tang mean it’s great for carving, gutting fish and skinning game, but it’s not at its best in splitting wood – consider it more of a precision instrument, and leave wood splitting to hatchets and axes.
I’ve used my ’curly birch, bears head’ decorative puukko for 20+ years (ice) fishing. It’s still as good as new. I suggest you get out there and use yours.
It’s traditional use is to threaten the local vallesmanni after you and the rest of the puukkojunkkari crew have been caught red handed after a night of drinking and causing trouble.