Yep, gone nuts already! Great sites and thank you for sharing them.
Might have to get one from finland to accessorize my Sako L57.

Good tip, Dave, but when it comes to guns, optics and knives, I almost always buy American.

Oh no! I was wrong. They are forged in the nations of their origin.
I still like them, though.

I like a working pommel made of metal, much like a “skull cracker”, but preferably flat for driving/hammering (if ever needed) combined with a blade in the neighborhood of 6” that’s strong enough for serious work, but doesn’t lose its dexterity by becoming overly thick and cumbersome. Suggestions on who offers a knife with these qualities at a reasonable price? Much of the knives featured on the suggested sites have soft or round pommels.

Well there goes my afternoon.

Knives made in Scandinavia often have very good steel. At least a couple of my favorite pocket knives have Nordic origins, An Estwing lockback with the handle made of a single piece of hardwood and a funny Finnish butterfly style knife labeled "Hackman". You can often tell a Nordic blade just from the grind line...

If you're looking for a good "Made in the USA" knife, check out ESEE's line of knives. My personal favorite, the ESEE-4 is crafted from fine 1095 carbon steel perfection.

Mora knives are inexpensive and sharp. I keep a number of them where I might need a knife.

hal herring, I looked out the shop window before it got dark and the ice is a foot thick and the water about flood stage ---6.5 ft---- from the south bank of the Platte River where you can see the lights of Grand Island from. You'd have real frosted cheeks. lololo

Puffy - check out Blackjack. Awesome knives.

"Elg" is a Moose in Scandahoovian, I think.

Thanks, Dave...
Quality is its own best salesman. I keep coming back to German steel knives, and have become a fan of the Puukko knives. Americans can do the same thing, even better, if we decide to do it. I believe that our time is coming, when the whole world will beat a path to our doors, for our steel, our bevels, and our innovations. I heard the same complaints about Volkswagens and buy American---but the VW forced us to remember toughness and economy, and our own quality went up. I much prefer to by American, exclusively...meanwhile, pass the Nordic knives, please. Thanks for acknowledging them.

Blue

The Scandavians know hunting:Besides there knives,, The best rifle caliber the Norwegian/Swedish 6.5x55,, the best rifle manufacturers Finnish Sako and the Swedish Carl Gustaf and Husqvarna.

I have an old Normark puukko-style fixed blade made by Fiskars that has served me well since 1976. The sheath is a fine design also. Made of leather with an insert and snug-fitting around the handle, this knife will not fall out and get lost. It has a belt hanger that allows the scabbard to flop around and conform to your body movements and never get in the way. It even has that unique little triangular tab on the tip of the sheath. A good puukko knife is to a hunter what a Snow & Nealley axe is to a Maine logger. Accept no substitute.

I like the knives and love the "hawks". The latter is a lot of fun to throw but not as easy to be good at as you might think if you have never done it. I am glad to know of these two excellent sources. Unfortunately they are "out of stock" of several items that I would like to try.

I'd rather wait 5 years for a Randall...Best knife ever made, and made in the USA by USA homegrown neighbors. I've tried 'em all, even had a mora back when they first came out, what, 40 years ago? Layered hard and soft steel. Good idea, nothing new, as the Japanese had been doing it for hundreds of years. Personally, I'd rather wait until I figured I could afford one and buy the best! The quality is long remembered......after the price is forgotten...

Got to the stage when I have no need of a sheath knife anymore. A good pocket knife will do the job, except for knifefighting...and I have little use for that anymore, either...Now, a pocketknife with a saw, and maybe a good short guthook, that's talking!

The Mora 640 knife, which is what I mostly have, is basically a fisherman's knife. A carbon steel blade, a plastic handle with a hole for a lanyard and hard plastic sheath is ideal for an oceangoing fisherman that may need to cut himself free of his nets. It does a good job of field dressing a deer and at around $75.00 for a box of ten, is a great gift to hand out.

WAM,

I think the type specimen for "moose" was the original European "elk" but Europeans finally yielded to America's overwhelming superiority LOL and now call their biggest deer "moose" as well.

The British English word elk has cognates in other Indo-European languages, for example elg in Norwegian, älg in Swedish, Elch in German.

I suppose when the Brits first came here, they did not see the moose early enough to give it the name elk. Then they saw the "wapiti" and not having seen a bigger deer in North America up to that point, called it "elk". Then they saw the moose and realized, oops!

Moose = European Elk (practically the same, except the Alaska-Yukon moose is bigger), btw, the European Elk is domesticated in some parts of North Asia, where its great height and split hooves make it an invaluable means of transport in deep snow

American Elk = at least in appearance (body, coat, antlers) and in its vocalizations (bugling), is often considered a much bigger version of the European Red Deer/Stag

I would be glad to consider purchasing a good blade from anywhere besides China nowadays.