New_Windsor_NY wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:00 am
A few days ago, this pocket knife arrived in a group or lot of pocket knives that I purchased. It now becomes my latest example to be posted under this topic or thread.
GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 12:44 am
Very.....
Thank you, GSPTOPDOG.
Kid: "Wish we had time to bury them fellas."
Josey Wales: "To hell with them fellas. Buzzards got to eat, same as worms."
Clint Eastwood-The Outlaw Josey Wales
GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:56 pm
I love this big Bowie! It is a Fallkniven Tor - Northern Fixed Blade Knife Made in Sweden.
Fällkniven AB is a Sweden-based manufacturer of knives and knife-related gear and apparel. Fällkniven was founded in 1984 in Boden by Peter Hjortberger.
Not too recently, this pocket knife arrived in a group or lot of pocket knives that I purchased. It now becomes my most recent example to be posted under this topic or thread. I did NOT purchase the group or lot of pocket knives to obtain this particular pocket knife. However, as it turned out, it is a keeper. It did get added to my general, "foreign born", pocket knife accumulation. It is a HACKMAN, one blade, two handle stamps or maker marks, 4 3/4" closed and 8 3/8" open, "butterfly" pattern or style of pocket knife. The blade itself has no stamp(s) or marking(s) of any kind, anywhere on it. The handles are plastic or some kind of composite material. The handle stamps or maker marks are on each side of the same handle. The handle stamps or maker marks are the same and they both say "STAINLESS (over) SORSAKOSKI" (both are curved or arched and between the rings of two circles). The handle stamps also say " HACKMAN FINLAND" (in a long, rectangular box, coming out of the circles). Overall, this pocket knife is in VERY GOOD condition. It did require some very minor cleaning. I took some pictures and here it is.
Caption(s), if any, are on the BOTTOM of the corresponding picture(s).
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***** TRIVIA *****
From Arizona Custom Knives.....
"Hackman was a cutlery and cookware company founded in Finland in 1790. The Hackman butterfly knife (Finnish: Linkkupuukko, "latch-knife") was a type of butterfly knife produced by Hackman. The knife was marketed by Hackman as a Retkiveitsi ("camping knife") and later as Eräpuukko ("wilderness puukko"). The knives were also sold in the United States, and some researchers state they were issued by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency during the Vietnam War."
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There Is One Of These Stamps Or Maker Marks On Each Side Of The Same Handle.
Kid: "Wish we had time to bury them fellas."
Josey Wales: "To hell with them fellas. Buzzards got to eat, same as worms."
Clint Eastwood-The Outlaw Josey Wales
GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:56 pm
I love this big Bowie! It is a Fallkniven Tor - Northern Fixed Blade Knife Made in Sweden.
Fällkniven AB is a Sweden-based manufacturer of knives and knife-related gear and apparel. Fällkniven was founded in 1984 in Boden by Peter Hjortberger.
I love this knife!!!
Ken, I wish I had bought as many of these and the other models (Odin, etc...) as I could have. Well, after I bought this Tor, the prices have gone through the longhouse roof over the years.... I would have to check but it has more than doubled ....
New_Windsor_NY wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 11:00 pm
***** TRIVIA *****
From Arizona Custom Knives.....
"Hackman was a cutlery and cookware company founded in Finland in 1790. The Hackman butterfly knife (Finnish: Linkkupuukko, "latch-knife") was a type of butterfly knife produced by Hackman. The knife was marketed by Hackman as a Retkiveitsi ("camping knife") and later as Eräpuukko ("wilderness puukko"). The knives were also sold in the United States, and some researchers state they were issued by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency during the Vietnam War."
Skip, I have owned two of these over the years.... and every time I get one, another collector in my local group of "knife Nuts" has ended up with it on a trade .... I need to find a 3rd one ..... and STAY strong !!!
GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:29 am
Skip.....
Well GSPTOPDOG, it will either be "third time's the charm" or "three strikes you're out."
Kid: "Wish we had time to bury them fellas."
Josey Wales: "To hell with them fellas. Buzzards got to eat, same as worms."
Clint Eastwood-The Outlaw Josey Wales
My Enzo field/hiking/camp knife from Finland. This was my first patina experiment. I used white vinegar as the acid and nail polish to block the areas I wanted unblemished. The paw was a cut-out of a tracing of my dog's footprint and then reduced in size on a copy machine. It was then copied onto copy on a paper with a sticky backing, then cutout and stuck to the blade to prevent the vinegar from reacting with the metal. So, after all that, I ended up with a very crisp outline of my dog's paw on the knife blade.
The handle is a para cord wrap soaked in epoxy/resin to harden it and then painted with a spray on enamel paint. It may not look so great, but it makes a very solid handle on the cheap... and good for outdoors use.
Kid: "Wish we had time to bury them fellas."
Josey Wales: "To hell with them fellas. Buzzards got to eat, same as worms."
Clint Eastwood-The Outlaw Josey Wales
I picked this one up in a box of misc recently. It is marked Falcon, stainless steel, Sweden. Did not come with a sheath, probably had one of those hard plastic ones originally. Takes a good edge and would work great for filleting.
after I bought this Tor, the prices have gone through the longhouse roof over the years.... 
I would have to check but it has more than doubled .... 
I gotta' wear my shades looking at these great pictures! very nice collection you have!
