New: Helle Nord Bushcraft Knife

Trendy-day knife designs have grow to be more and more elaborate, but when we glance again on the conventional knives of our ancestors, they have 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 often called a puukko, designed for delicate duties akin to skinning and shaving tinder; the bigger blade is usually referred to as a leuku, and it serves to cut via onerous wooden and reindeer bone. Norwegian knifemaker Helle Knives has launched a brand new mounted blade impressed by the latter device, often called the Helle Nord.

The Helle Nord encompasses a 5.7-inch drop level blade with sturdy full-tang building and the traditional Scandi grind popularized by knives from this area. It is constructed from field-serviceable and corrosion-resistant Sandvik 14C28N stainless-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 putting of a ferro rod.

One place the Nord differs from custom is its contoured deal with form. Helle says that is meant to offer 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 wish to label the Nord with phrases like survival or bushcraft. Within the wilderness, these phrases are meaningless; the one strategy to construct helpful knives which are snug 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 check with as a camp knife or bushcraft knife — particularly given its Scandi grind, a favourite attribute of recent bushcraft progenitor Mors Kochanski.

Each Nord will probably be manufactured on the historic Helle manufacturing unit 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 predicted to hit shops in July 2022. For extra data, go to Helle.com.

Written by Patrick McCarthy