New: Helle Nord Bushcraft Knife

Fashionable-day knife designs have grow to be more and more elaborate, but when we glance again on the conventional knives of our ancestors, they had been truly fairly easy. The Sami, an indigenous individuals from northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland, depend on knives for processing wooden and meat of their bitterly chilly setting. Sami knives are sometimes made in two sizes — the smaller blade is usually known as a puukko, designed for delicate duties comparable to skinning and shaving tinder; the bigger blade is commonly known as a leuku, and it serves to cut by arduous wooden and reindeer bone. Norwegian knifemaker Helle Knives has launched a brand new fastened blade impressed by the latter device, generally known as the Helle Nord.

The Helle Nord encompasses a 5.7-inch drop level blade with sturdy full-tang building and the basic Scandi grind popularized by knives from this area. It is constructed from field-serviceable and corrosion-resistant Sandvik 14C28N chrome steel, and clad with European curly birch deal with scales (one other reference to the standard Sami design). The backbone of the blade is floor to a 90-degree edge to permit simple placing of a ferro rod.

One place the Nord differs from custom is its contoured deal with form. Helle says that is supposed to provide a safe grip near the blade for exact cuts, and to scale back the danger of slippage throughout heavy chopping duties.

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Anders Haglund, co-developer of the Nord, defined that he prefers to not apply any trendy phrases to the knife design. “We did not need to label the Nord with phrases like survival or bushcraft. Within the wilderness, these phrases are meaningless; the one approach to construct helpful knives which can be comfy within the hand is to make use of them within the area.” Whereas this sentiment is comprehensible, it is clear that this knife falls right into a class most of us would consult with as a camp knife or bushcraft knife — particularly given its Scandi grind, a favourite attribute of contemporary bushcraft progenitor Mors Kochanski.

Each Nord might be manufactured on the historic Helle manufacturing facility in Holmedal, Norway, the place the corporate has been making blades for over 90 years. MSRP is $249, and features a conventional leather-based belt sheath. The Helle Nord is anticipated to hit shops in July 2022. For extra info, go to Helle.com.

Written by Patrick McCarthy