Puukko finished

I have to make this short and sweet, because I have to pack my bags. Tomorrow is the last day of school this year. I'm off to Turku to get drunk this weekend before a 1000km drive on Sunday night to my December work place in Lapland. Nice.

As you can see from the picture above the lakes are frozen down here so you know its gonna be cold up north.

We had an outdoor classroom today to learn about the ice, snow, and winter conditions. Grilled a few sausages while we were there. I chopped a piece of ice from the lake to inspect it and it was over seven cm's thick of clear ice. Five cm's of clear ice is what you want to walk on it safely. I'm still not walking on it yet though.

Yeah, guess what else. My knife is done. I finished that bad boy today.

I stiched up the side first. I got it real wet to mould it round the wooden inner sheath, marked the holes, drilled them and banged the stiches in.

I folded the top piece over where the ring is and stitched it real nice. When I finished and was admiring my work I noticed that I forgot to put the ring in the loop so had to cut the stiches off and do it again. Then I just cut some leather to make the belt loop and like a proper knob almost stiched it before putting it through the ring again. Finally added the popper button thing and the sheath was ready for greasing and I rubbed linseed oil into the handle of the knife. I'm not going to stain the handle and apparently the sun is going to do a good job of tanning the leather for me. Although I will have to wait untill summer.

I'm off to pack now so...

Laters