How to make birch bark handle for a Laplander blade

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Published 2013-11-27

I visited Roselli's factory some time ago and I bought two of their biggest blades, Sami -Laplander knife blades. These kind of blades are called "Leuku" in Finnish. I desided to do birch bark handles for them. I wish this opens your eyes how to do it. As you may notice, it's rather labouries to do it.
I think there's going to be a video soon introducing these knifes when ever they will be ready.
Music in this video comes from Ulla Pirttijärvi, Finnish Sami singer.
Look at video Project Lapin leuku and you will see these laplander knifes finished youtube.com/watch?v=g9Imx...

All Comments (21)

@stainmorelegend 9 years ago

I love the yoik - the sound of the wind in the boreal forest.
@dorinbarbu968 7 years ago

You are the best! When I need to see how to put together a knife I watch your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
@matusknives 8 years ago

Excellent video, thank you. I really appreciate the details about processing the birch bark.
@alannikander1987 7 years ago

Love the music... suits a video of a finnish knife being made. Having Scandinavian genes in me, I am interested making this knife. Also, gonna have to google Ulla Pirttijärvi... Its nice to discover talented musicians from mother countries..
@devo1785 5 years ago

When getting the top layers off the Birch bark, I found using a scrap piece of wood with an end cut at a 45 degree angle worked amazing for scraping the bark evenly and quickly. Saved my thumbs a lot of rubbing!
@jaylane82 10 years ago

They look awesome. Thanks for showing how to make them. :-)
@1389kim 10 years ago

Dude, I simply love your work I'm amazed by idea how you used birch tar for joining bark parts. It is very intelligent way to use natural resource and minimize adiction of unnatural matirials. Awesome !!!
@FearNoSteel 9 years ago

I love your work. Pure beauty. I've been inspired by your skills. I've made my first stacked handle knife from a file but the fit an finish is amateur. I always come back to watch these video to get recharged when I get frustrated. Also, Love the Sami music, its relaxing and fits the knives.
@Mindokwin 10 years ago

This inspired me to collect some birch bark. Thanks
@conornoz 9 years ago

a pleasure to watch again!
@augustosc3274 9 years ago

Muito bom !!! Parabéns por compartilhar essa experiência, obrigado. grande abraço.
@bigfootbushcraft7063 9 years ago

Beautiful work
@taow 10 years ago

i really enjoyed this video!
@AndyBKHaas 10 years ago

Thanks for showing. Your video are always an inspiration, thanks again!
@M.K.M 10 years ago

Really cool technique in the oven, Birch bark is some awsome wood i have to try this some times. Pretty cool music to.
@51barnfind 10 years ago

Very nice and inspiring! Lots of work the finished product stands for great craftsmanship.Like always your work is a great pleasure to see.
@xam711 9 years ago

amazing idea !
@wokeil 9 years ago

Another good knife brand from Finland is Marttiini. They make nice knives and it's pretty well known among the knife people
@Weeksbladeworks 10 years ago

beautiful work, and great job on the vid. Cant wait to see the finnished knife.
@chisler26 10 years ago

Beautiful video. I was totally entranced by the music.