ok....I kinda dropped the ball on the first one. But the second makes up for it.

Pasi Hurttila is a 30ish young smith and mainly wilderness guide. His shop is a dirt floor shed with exactly two power tools, a belt sander and a hand drill. All cuts are done with a handsaw, all holes are drilled and filed, every blow of the hammer is by hand.

These leuku are forged from 0.197" thick 80crV2, rhomboid cross section blade ends up circa 0.176" at thickest point.

Before handling, each blade is tested by chopping, scraping, batoning, and drilling, both moose antler and wood, and must still slice paper when done.

Again, all cuts of wood and brass, done by hand, as well as holes filed to perfect fit. Pommels are peened/filed/peened/filed/peened/etc to compressive fit.

Wood liners cut and carved by hand, likewise sheaths cut and stitched.

This blade just over 8". A no-fear companion.














The last knife is mine.

This process detailed far clearer in Pasi's article on the nordiskaknivar site available at

https://nordiskaknivar.wordpress.com/2013/12/07/making-a-leuku-by-pasi-hurttila/