Thread: Unna àksu.

Stunning looking small axe. Have you used it or is it just for display?

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

Stunning looking small axe. Have you used it or is it just for display?

Bob

Baptized it yesterday. NOT impressed. Started out good but went down hill rather quickly. Quartered out a fat doe. Chopped the forelegs, the spine and the rear legs.




Steel is hard. Straightened out the worst of it this morning on a BIG Norton stone. File wouldn't touch it. I'm thinking that the original grind was too much like a knife edge and had too much unsupported edge. Put a steeper bevel on it this go around. Didn't get quite all the dings out, but they'll come out next time I put it on the stone.


If it blows up again, I'm contacting the Swede's that made it and see what they have to say.

Wow. I've never seen anything like that.

Yea, that is not impressive at all. Hope the beefier edge works.

Bob

I just cut at the joints....

For what you want to do I would sharpen it more like a splitting maul than a hatchet.

That's a sweet axe. I saw that model on a blog a couple of months ago and was intrigued. Let us know how you like it. I like the look of Karesuando's products. I might be purchasing one of their knife kits depending on what's in my stocking in a couple of days.

p.s. What's in the leather pouch?

Just arrived last night, not used it yet. It's small, bought it to replace a heavy knife. I figure it'll be handy working up deer. It's hard to split rib cages with a puuko. It's small enough you can choke up on the handle and use the blade as knife blade.

The little pouch has a 2 sided diamond sharpener for touching up the edge.

It's hair popping sharp right out of the box. Stainless steel ought to be easy to maintain. RC around 55 IIRC.

Made by Karesuando Kniven in Sweden.

Looks like it would be OK for skinning out too. Seems like you could use it like an ulu for that.

Bob

Congrats!

Knives that come from karesuando kniven has a good reputation here.
That little axe looks special, not at all like typical Sami/Lappi axes i've seen. Might be good for skinning but not for chopping firewood.

Karesuvanto (fin), Karesuando (swe) or Gárasavvon (northern sami) is a small village up north in Lappland, in the Sami area, at the border between Finland and Sweden.
The village itself is on both sides of the border.
Heck, people who live on the Swedish side (about 300) also happen to live on different time zone than the ones who live in Finland (140)

I remember reading somewhere that the road that connects eastern and western side was built in 1980. Nowadays Swedish Karesuando is the northernmost point on the major European route E45 to Gela in Italy, and Finnish Kaaresuvanto is a stop on European route E8 from Tromssø (Norway) to Turku (SW Finland, my home town).