Terävä jääkäripuukko review

About a month ago I was watching a video on the Ranger Fieldcraft and Survival YouTube channel and noticed the channel owner using a different knife than the one that he usually uses in his videos. And despite my fondness for the Carbon V SRK, I think Terava has actually improved upon it with its superior wood carving ability. 

The Terava's 80CrV2 steel holds an edge as good if not even better than Carbon V, and it is just as easy to sharpen.

It’s a solid knife that I believe will provide the user with years of quality service. This works very well and is actually quite impressive. They are renowned for their great, no-nonsense attitude, combined with a fantastic sense of humour. The Terava performed excellent during this task. The quality in all details is very good, and while there are no details that really stick out, the overall simplicity is a great quality in itself, a quality that far too many makers manage to miss while searching for uniqueness.

Sticking to simplicity is often wise, but a surprising number of manufacturers somehow manage to botch their sheaths up completely.

Personally, and depending on what pack I am using, I carry it either in or inside of the side pockets of my backpack, or sometimes inside of the pack. In face, the width of the blade is such that the lanyard loop could be reliably used to break glass, ice or even bone.

High carbon tool steel gives the blade edge strength to endure a wide variety of cutting tasks without being too brittle.

Let’s find out.

Jääkäripuukko – The Hunter’s Knife

The Jääkäripuukko shares many of the same basic features of the Skrama, but of course with some differences. The blade came hair shaving sharp out of the box and has a good balanced feel in your hand just begging to be put to work.

“The Jääkäripuukko is not designed to sit on a shelf for decoration; this is an honest tool made for hard work.”~varusteleka.com

I took it out to the backyard lab and went to work creating fuzz sticks and shavings for starting a fire.

So, here is the basic data:

• Blade length: 110 mm, width 26 mm, thickness 4 mm.
• Edge angle: 23°, a very common puukko edge, great for all knifey tasks.
• Total length: 240 mm.
• Steel: Carbon steel 80CrV2, 59 HRC, or 4110 stainless steel hardened to 57 HRC.
• Handle: Direct molded rubber, textured for a good grip.
• Weight (w/o sheath): 175 g.

As already mentioned, this knife is aimed at people looking at an alternative for the hard-to-get Peltonen Sissipuukkoand also competes with the recently launched Mora Garberg knife.

prying grubs from rotten logs, popping open a locked fuel door on a vehicle to get emergency gas during a disaster situation, etc). 

The Terava's spine is also sharpened for striking firesteels whereas the SRK's is not.Both knives have excellent sheaths for soldier duty or wilderness survival. Experience has taught me that tools the size of a knife can be easily stolen or disappear during a move.

the Finn-Savotta factory in Estonia. After admiring is physical attributes, I immediately tested it in the field. In a military context however, such types of knives have been in use even here, going back as far as can be remembered.

Today, we are going to look at two knives from the same maker, Terävä, which fill specialized functions at opposite ends.

This too fits well with traditional Scandinavian grip design, which is good to see.

While not as unique as the Skrama, the Jääkäripuukko is a more than adequate knife that is very easy to like. Scandinavia. The SRK has an enclosed stick tang that runs the length of the handle. 

By comparison, the Terava has all of the features of the original Carbon V SRK, so I wanted to do a direct comparison before commencing field testing.