Thanks for getting this going and for all of the information Lofty. I just ordered a couple of knives from the link you provided. Nothing high end but interesting and traditional.
PLEASE make sure you post a picture of your felt boots when they arrive!!!!
I was thinking the Barbie pink ones.
Another really good smith profile from the Nordiskarkniv site, enjoyable reading and good photos.....
https://nordiskaknivar.wordpress.com/2014/01/10/martti-malinen/And back to Marko and the Tommi Puukko, here is a little slideshow of previous owner Veijo at work from 8yrs ago....nothing has changed, and I think you can see the knife actually folded and built up in forge welding to shape....NOT just simply banging out an edge....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djAY1UbHQNQand also essentially same slideshow but a few extras such as the past President of Finland showing off by shaving with his Kainuun Tommi puukko knife, and bit more emphasis on handle and sheath making at the expense of few blade forging shots....note the hand powered Singer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElBb2uqu0n8As to the steel being used, "Silversteel", I had mentioned to think O-1 Enhanced or Improved....the actual steel used by puukkoseppa in Finland, when they say silversteel, is the super-pure Bohler Uddeholm K510, very high 1.2% carbon, good doses of chrome, vanadium, silicon, closest I can think of as far as composition perhaps the Hitachi Blue Steel Aogami #2 (though not as clean) and can be taken to very high hardness with very good resilience and toughness.....and this apart from all the forging. If a guy knows what he is about, he ends up with a very impressive blade.