John Neeman Tools Puukko Review
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- After I had designed a more or less traditional Finnish Puukko for the Latvia-based tool making company John Neeman Tools they sent me a specimen to try review. In this video you can see it in action went I went to an island in the lake Pielavesi to try it out with my German friend and fellow knife smith Daniel Lea ( / 99pppo .
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Great video Topi! I love Finnish knives. Greetings from Uruguay.
my daughter was in findlin and brought me a 🔪 knife back verry good Birchwood handle blade verry sharp great. job great design
ребят,я по русски ,уж простите) понравилось видео,просто и душевно,мне понравилось смотреть и слушать вас! нож великолепен
Say Heah Topi, You did good, Thanx You. Infact I brought my Puukku this weekend. It's my Vintage Cold Steel Sisu. I recently started using it. I'm totally impressed, The VG-1 San Mai 3 holds as good of a edge retention as some of my O1 Blades. It's a Tapio Wirkkala design but with modern material, It's just a COINCIDENCE, but I also brought my Cold Steel Ultimate Hunter Folder and my 17" Hultafors Bruks Agdor Hatchet and my Wicked Tough Saw. This weekend I'm practicing using my tools the least amount of time. Again, Thanx You.,,.p
I like your knives they look great I have two pukas verry sharp and looks good hold up well to like the sheaths
Thank you for your comment!
I know that I'm not the most experienced knife user. But for sure, I saw which one worked better then. Now that I've sharpened the JN puukko, it's working much better.
And about that another knife, it's made by my dad.
Ps. mora is a swedish manufacturer, thus they're not making puukkos. They're making scandi knives.
Again I appreciate your critisism! I use knives all the time in the army now, so I will get the experience.
+Topi Remes You are welcome. But I think it's a bit strange if you design "more or less traditional Finnish Puukko" for John Neeman Tools if you don't have skills. There is so many ways how to use puukko. At your age I had carved hundreds of hours with many puukkos, it was my hobby since childhood. Bows, arrows, spoons, bowls or cups, tool handles, ornamental sticks, wooden balls and geometrical shapes and of course I used puukkos in the woods and carpentery.
Puukko your dad's made looks a lot like Roselli. Smallest Roselli is ok for a puukko, others are more like knives. Wide, long, and curvy blade is useless in puukko, too thick blade is tiring to use. For splitting wood and rough shaping there is an axe.
Mora is a region in Sweden, knife manufacturers are (have been) many. Frosts, Eriksson, Jönsson etc., all more puukkos than ones on your video. They are much closer to real finnish puukko, of which Tommi-puukko is a classical example.
+bekanav Thank you for your comment!
John Neeman tools sent me this knife, and they wanted me to make a review of it. I made it how I saw it, review is always a persons opinion about the item and maybe more experienced user could make out more differences. I am still pretty sure that the blade angle and thickness in JN puukko doesn't make it a good carver.
I've been taught knife making by Kari Saastamoinen and Pekka Tuominen and I've studied finnish puukkos' features like blade angles and geometries, handle shapes etc. Mora has a scandi grind thus not having so high bevel that traditional puukko has. Roselli doesn't actually make that traditional "puukkos" but they are great knives. Again, I'm aware of my lack of skills in carving but I can send you some pictures of puukkos I've made so you can actually say something about them.
With training anyone can make beautiful things with a chainsaw, an axe or a knife. The blade geometry is effecting how well you can use it for one task. Finnish puukko is not actually optimal for carving, it's not optimal for splitting and not optimal for skinning. It has developed to be pretty good in every task.
ps. I would like to see your work, you seem to be pretty experienced knife user!
Good answer. Good to hear you have studied puukkos and have had mentors. My way has been more solitary and practical, woodworking is a kind of family tradition and a job. My father and his father were carpenters and for sure knew how to use handtools: axe, puukko, saws, planes and chisels. Many of my tools I still use are from my grandfather.
You are correct, finnish puukko is a good compromise. Higher bevel (vs Mora) is due to a bit thicker (hand)forged blade, essential cutting angle is about the same. As a woodworking tool puukkos blade must have enough wedge. Too thin edge bites in and is not strong enough.
Thanks for your suggestions. I can't say from pictures if puukko is good or not. But if blade is good, size, shapes, materials and propositions right I don't see why your puukkos aren't good.
I still recommend you to use more puukko. For example, carve a handle for an old axe or hammer. It's fun and you will learn a lot. And you will get some strenght to your carving, since birch may be quite hard.
Perhaps I will show some of my puukkos, carving works and techniques, if I just manage to record and publish them. You might gave me an inspiration to try.
+bekanav My great-grandfather was really talented in woodworking, blacksmithing, shoemaking and leatherwork. Too bad my father and grandfather were not that interested, so he didn't teach anybody his skills.
Thanks for the encouragement! I will try to start carving more, although the military service is taking the most of my time.
And for you, I'm looking forward to your videos/posts, I'm sure you have recourses to make them really interesting!
Best regards
Topi
Great video guys! Unfortunately I want to say that I had better thoughts about this John Neeman Tools puukko. I like Yuro Puronvarsi puukko blades a lot better than so thin JNT. I hope they will do thicker blades in future.
Ivars I totally aggree!
I''d bet it just needs some sharpening attention. Great knife.
DesTroisCents we did sharpen it with the apex edge pro. The performance did improve a lot.
I guarantee if I had the cash for Neeman tool that thing would just hang on my wall for generations to admire. Not a chance in hell I would risk scratching it.
That grind looks more like a flat grind rather than a scandi considering you probably have to put most of the attention when sharpening and carving towards that secondary bevel, that secondary bevel looks far to obvious and large. Also the knife costs ~400$ and it can't cut a sausage cleanly...
Hyvä arvostelu! Pitkään miettinyt Neeman Toolsin puukkoa seuraavaksi isommaksi veitsihankinnaksi, mutta eipä tuo oikein nettisivulta näy, että mitään skandihiontaa ei veitsessä tosiaan olekaan. Tai edes full flat:ia, mikä sekään nyt ei oikein tuontyyppistä terää kuvaa. Miksi tuota nyt sanoisi, sapelihionnaksi?
Hiton hienohan tuo on, ja tuppi näyttää tarpeeksi jämäkältä. Harmi.
LJK Mukava että pidit! Tosiaan kahvan tekivät vähän turhan pulleaksi ollakseen puukko, eikä terän paksuuskaan ollut sellainen, kuten heille piirsin.
Uskon, että muut veitsimallit ovat onnistuneempia metsästysveitseksi. Suosittelen tutustumaan myös kotimaiseen tarjontaan, saatan itsekin innostua taas tekemään, kun tuli juuri yksi tilaus.
John Neeman is No 1 in the world
kiitos! the finnish knife is always the better :-) take care
Expensive knife to slice sausages, lol! $700 is a bit much!
measurments please
Where are you from Topi? Greetings from Missouri, USA
Hey Rob!
I'm from Finland.
Are Northman knives any good? They look awesome but are expensive!!! I’m looking at a hunting model in their website, but I don’t know much
They are good quality. The craftsmanship is good. I would say that for hunting and universal purposes the hunting model would serve you well. It's not as universal as puukko, but works really good with processing game. If you're using your knife for woodworking and small detail work it might not be good for you.
@@TopiRemes i’m strictly looking for a hunting knife. The hunting models are very expensive from this company. I believe they are made in Finland correct? I have looked them up on UA-cam and found some videos, but they don’t really do a lot of knife reviews or anything on there. Although the videos are good they’re not very descriptive or useful for me. For the price, I would expect a top quality hunting knife that would blow anything away that you could buy in a store or find in the United States. I buy rifles that are made in Finland and they are the best quality rifles in the world in my opinion, as well as the best shooting rifles in the world. I would expect the same out of the Knives. The one I’m looking at uses Elmax steel and it’s the cheaper one out of all of them but it’s still around $600. I cannot find any reviews online for this company or anything to really find out much about them. I wrote them and after several days they wrote me back but all they did was direct me to their website, I was very disappointed in that, I expected them to call me or give me more information about the knife model I’m interested in. I would like to find out more, and I’m also wanting a knife that is razor-sharp when I get it and from some of the comments from your video I read where the knife you got was not sharp and that was very disappointing to me.
@@TopiRemes I also saw that when you go to order a knife from them, they said it takes 6 to 8 months or something like that. In my mind that can be a good thing just because you know they take their time on each knife etc. however there are not many pictures of the knife for me to get a very good look at it and like I said no reviews. I would like to know how it will perform on game, and how long it stays sharp four and many other details. It’s a beautiful looking knife but beauty is not everything especially for that price point
These knives are not made in Finland and the company is not finnish. These are made in Latvia and the company is latvian. I haven't done enough research to say if it's a good choice for you or not. What I would do is to look up for master bladesmiths(if you want finnish the waiting time is at least 1 year) and buy a knife from one maker. Then he/she can custom make it directly for your needs. It can be even more expensive though. But again, I have really nothing bad to say about northmen and I reckon they've progressed a lot since this video was made.
@@TopiRemes it looks like the blade material is from Finland according to the link I sent you. If you read through the script, it says made in Finland for the blade material. It said the master blacksmiths name is Chris but that’s all I know I don’t know any last name anything like that. I was assuming this company is the same company that made the knife that you used in your video. If that’s the case, I was thinking you would know a lot about the quality inn about their knives. Elmax steel is used
bon apetit :)
So you can buy 100 moras that will perform better for the money?!
Hi , it is very nice hut, is it public?
Hello! Yes it is public!
Ego trips can get expensive.
That John Neeman knife best stay in some hipster yuppie's kit because it didn't look very good.
Ah..I had to say sorry! I meant to hit the thumbs up and hit the thumbs down. I did enjoy the video:)
Holster your sheath boy!!
Nice review, you speak quite good english and also video production is good enough. But, unfortunately you don't know how to use puukko, both your attempts to carve and split looks horrible, secondary bevel or not. Your finnish Roselli is not a good example of finnish puukko, blade is all too wide and clumsy, although it is of good quality. Perhaps more than making reviews and collecting puukkos you should learn to use one, it takes hundreds of hours to master it.
Puukko is a fine tool. For a beginner 3 euro Mora is good choice, in fact it is too good.
You're a Dumbass.
£400+ knife that can't put a clean cut in a sausage!
+Beta Vulgaris (A View From Europe) The price of a knife is no indication for the sharpness of its blade! You could, for example, buy a $2 knife and sharp it to a razor grade. What you do pay for in a knife is mostly the blade material, the design and for the brand. Taking care of the blade and keeping it sharp is on you. My 2 cents ;)
aryesegal1988 Appreciated and you are correct....however if i paid so much for a knife i'd expect it to be ready to go out of the box. Perhaps it was and he just dulled it through use.
Beta Vulgaris My assumption a well :) Must have used it for a while and dulled it some..