I just started making my own handles and their knife blanks are on the top if my list for my next project. What I like about their knives are the grinds, they have a perfect height of scandi edge compared to 99% of all the other brands out there. After seeing this video I'm even more impressed with their product, I can't wait to make one. Thanks guys.
working in a HUGE knife factory to n a small local town at the top of the world, hunting and fishing in the great outdoors. it really is an honest life. I admire people that craft things like this. it must be very rewarding. too often today, it gets too busy in the city. we are losing something.....thanks for the trip guys ! PAPA DUKES
+john rossi I'm with you John, I dont think I'd have much problems living like that, especially when working with producing knives. Craftmanship is lost everyday, everyone is too busy checking their phones nowadays to learn anything. Thanks for watching! Freddy
+Brian West (BrianWest58) It cant be said enough the amount of hospitality we were shown. Two bearded bums from Norway show up with shitty cameragear and wants to film for almost two whole days? Sure, come in! I was a child in a candystore in that production facility, we forgot filming a few times. I hope they'll be able to carry on the production in the years to come, and not to say the least the traditions. Freddy
I've just got myself one of their small axes its amazing and now I've met the people the people that made it in your video it will mean so much more it is a thing of beauty and shaving sharp out of the box can't believe it .Marvelous video keep it up
Good job guys with the tutorial video and great job narrating all your footage for us. Glad to see you guys back on RUclips. Hope work eases up for you and you get more time to entertain us with your wit and videos. Hope all is well and looking forward to your next video.
+Gylmeh's World Hi Gylmeh! It took us a long time to finish this one, and I think we still could have done better. Well, anyways, we will hopefully be back on track, but I do think there's bound to be some delays before this year is over. There's no lack of plans though, so 2016 will hopefully see some pretty cool videos. Thanks for sticking with us! Freddy
Fire and Steel In that case, I am looking forward to your content in 2016. I hope things start to look up for you soon for the rest of 2015. Also, of course I am sticking with you guys. A true fan understands that life sometimes throws curve balls at us and we have to find a way through it. You guys seem to be of a strong nature and I am sure you will over come any obstacles in your way. Gylmeh
The coolest video I have ever seen. My respects to Karesuando company and both of you guys did a really good presentation that showed us the real world behind a knife we are holding in our hands. Pretty impressive stuff. keep the good work, thumbs up!
Living in Sweden and never heard of these knives. Good work and should keep a look for their knives. My favourite is the Mora for hard use and EKA in pocket/wood
+Josh Lloyd It sure does, I've shaken hands with everyone involved in making my knife and axe from Karesuando Knives. Can't put a price on that. Freddy
Thank you guys, for this amazing video. I just received my Karesuando knife (bigger handle, living in The Netherlands :-) ); I love it, of course. Great to see how these masterpieces are created.
+Robert Edwards Thanks Robert, we enjoyed making this one. Well maybe not as much the editing, but still worth it to get to see how a traditional knife is being made. Thanks man. Freddy
need big hands to milk the renderer ! So I picked up a Unna Aksa, and now find they make a large hunter axe, so I need that and that's how I found this outstanding video you guys made here and now I will have to pick out a knife after seeing this. Cool video, cool place to see and cool tools to enrich the great outdoor experience.
Thanks for the excellent shop tour! Sometimes I forget how much work it takes to make something even as simple as a knife. It was fun to see that they have process steps as simple as wood drying and as modern and as complicated as a robot knife grinder. With the amount of cutting fluid that robot grinder uses I don't think that there will be a problem with burned edges on Karesuando knives! They really seem to have struck a good balance between supporting local labor and making a great quality product. Thanks again for the tour. :)
+PM in Oregon Glad you liked it! What surprised me the most is the fact that all the materials come from Sweden, and most of them not far from the factory itself. I really have a hope of getting to do something like this one day. Make something at least. Freddy
Sorry to be so off topic but does any of you know a method to get back into an Instagram account? I was stupid lost the account password. I appreciate any tips you can give me
@Briggs Gibson i really appreciate your reply. I got to the site through google and I'm in the hacking process atm. Takes quite some time so I will reply here later with my results.
took me a few to get to the vid but way to go guys, great vid. It's a shame the world isn't more populated by craftspeople rather than machines. Great tour, those scenic towns always seem awesome to me even if there isn't a lot to do. Hope everything is cool on your end guys, cheers from IN, USA this Bud's for you. keep it real
+Macho Deth I'm with you, people doesn't make stuff anymore, or fix the shit they buy. They're too busy looking at their cell phones. Even though we share a lot of the fauna with Karesuando, it really is quite different topography wise. It's so flat in those parts. Cheers mate! Freddy
Great vid. You guys giving the story and details made it even better. How much antler and tusk dust did you guys take home? Who licked more, who licked first?
+M Par The evenings in the cabin up there was kinda slow, so it was good to have endless amounts of antler dust at hand. Hard to say who licked more, it was all good maaaaan. Freddy
+john rossi Well it's not a big place up there. Only a couple of stores, so there wasn't much to do, but killing mosquitos. We did have a plan of going on a longer hike, but my health didnt permit anything like that unfortunately. Freddy
PSportz Well, snake and freddy have jobs, in their spare time they make video's, and come on, it's impossible for them to go to the forest to test a item every single day, it just takes some time for them to make their video's, it's their hobby not their job :)
+MISTER AGB I know ofc that they work. First i wasn't super serious ;) And secondly about your point of go to to the forest every day, my comment obviously referred to this trip and the time between the releases of day 2 and day 3 :)
PSportz hmm oke ;) They release that video a little late because they dont want to upload 3 video's in a few days and then have no video for 3 months straight, they try to spread the goodness :-)
Thanks for the video guys . Whats the machine at (9:06min) that grinds the macro bevel of the knife by high speed grinding wheels . Whats theese machines called . ? Thank you.
We have no idea to be honest. It's pretty specialized for the task, so it might just be a special purpose machine, made by a manufacturer on a special order. Reading through the lines here, we have no idea. Freddy
Im fairly sure that little piece of leather is so that you dont cut the string with your knife ( i think ) AWESOME video guys :) looking forward to the next one :) SKÅL !!!
+Grasbakken71 Det var fine kniver før vi dro oppover. De ble veldig spesielle kniver i samlingen etter at vi fikk møte folkene som lager dem. Takk for at du ser på! Freddy
+Stakkatoking Hehe, guess who we asked first to do this? They didn't want to do anything like this, and that is of course ok with us. Cant say I'm not disappointed, but hey, we got to see Karesuando. Freddy
+john rossi Sorry to say, nope. It would be cool though, to have a chance to use all their machines to make a knife for yourself. It would most likely look like shit, but at least it would've been selfmade. Freddy
I just started making my own handles and their knife blanks are on the top if my list for my next project. What I like about their knives are the grinds, they have a perfect height of scandi edge compared to 99% of all the other brands out there. After seeing this video I'm even more impressed with their product, I can't wait to make one. Thanks guys.
working in a HUGE knife factory to n a small local town at the top of the world, hunting and fishing in the great outdoors. it really is an honest life. I admire people that craft things like this. it must be very rewarding. too often today, it gets too busy in the city. we are losing something.....thanks for the trip guys ! PAPA DUKES
+john rossi I'm with you John, I dont think I'd have much problems living like that, especially when working with producing knives. Craftmanship is lost everyday, everyone is too busy checking their phones nowadays to learn anything.
Thanks for watching!
Freddy
Very, very interesting how they do their craft. You did very well in your part in bringing it to us. Many thanks to them for allowing you in the shop!
+Brian West (BrianWest58) It cant be said enough the amount of hospitality we were shown. Two bearded bums from Norway show up with shitty cameragear and wants to film for almost two whole days? Sure, come in! I was a child in a candystore in that production facility, we forgot filming a few times. I hope they'll be able to carry on the production in the years to come, and not to say the least the traditions.
Freddy
Happy people in that factory! I want job like this, no stress, no stupid chief... Thanks for this video guys!
+Rastislav Uhričík Let's start a knife factory then, no bosses, only blaaaaades. Thanks for watching!
Freddy
and the owner doing the most dangerous work himself. Respect
Thanks so much for taking us along that was so cool!
+SouthPaw Bushcraft Thanks for watching! I rarely learn this much on vacation!
Freddy
I've just got myself one of their small axes its amazing and now I've met the people the people that made it in your video it will mean so much more it is a thing of beauty and shaving sharp out of the box can't believe it .Marvelous video keep it up
+Richard Parkhouse Exactly what we thought also. Gives it a lot more meaning if you know what I mean.
Freddy
You can feel and see that it wasn't produced by a faceless cnc machine gotta have one of their knives in the new year 😉😉😉
Good job guys with the tutorial video and great job narrating all your footage for us. Glad to see you guys back on RUclips. Hope work eases up for you and you get more time to entertain us with your wit and videos. Hope all is well and looking forward to your next video.
+Gylmeh's World Hi Gylmeh! It took us a long time to finish this one, and I think we still could have done better. Well, anyways, we will hopefully be back on track, but I do think there's bound to be some delays before this year is over. There's no lack of plans though, so 2016 will hopefully see some pretty cool videos. Thanks for sticking with us!
Freddy
Fire and Steel In that case, I am looking forward to your content in 2016. I hope things start to look up for you soon for the rest of 2015. Also, of course I am sticking with you guys. A true fan understands that life sometimes throws curve balls at us and we have to find a way through it. You guys seem to be of a strong nature and I am sure you will over come any obstacles in your way.
Gylmeh
Very nice. Thanks for that tour. My appreciation for their handiwork is now immense. Nice knives!
+tackettsmillfarm Me too, they put a lot of effort in each knife going out those doors.
Freddy
+Fire and Steel So you convinced me. I bought a blade blank to make a knife. I will make a handle from American black walnut from my farm.
The coolest video I have ever seen. My respects to Karesuando company and both of you guys did a really good presentation that showed us the real world behind a knife we are holding in our hands. Pretty impressive stuff.
keep the good work, thumbs up!
+Achilles Daniel Adam Thanks man! Good to know people appreciated the video!
Freddy
Living in Sweden and never heard of these knives. Good work and should keep a look for their knives.
My favourite is the Mora for hard use and EKA in pocket/wood
Amazing process!! Makes you appreciate the knife and craftsmanship.
+Josh Lloyd It sure does, I've shaken hands with everyone involved in making my knife and axe from Karesuando Knives. Can't put a price on that.
Freddy
Thank you guys, for this amazing video. I just received my Karesuando knife (bigger handle, living in The Netherlands :-) ); I love it, of course.
Great to see how these masterpieces are created.
Missed my brothers, you guys are badass. Enjoy every vid you guys post. This was a cool tour. Thank you and Keep rocking brothers!!
+Robert Edwards Thanks Robert, we enjoyed making this one. Well maybe not as much the editing, but still worth it to get to see how a traditional knife is being made. Thanks man.
Freddy
need big hands to milk the renderer ! So I picked up a Unna Aksa, and now find they make a large hunter axe, so I need that and that's how I found this outstanding video you guys made here and now I will have to pick out a knife after seeing this. Cool video, cool place to see and cool tools to enrich the great outdoor experience.
Thanks for doing this Shop Tour. Karesuando seems to be a great company!
+Johan van der Does Hi Johan! I dont know how they do it, but they make some incredible knives, that's for sure.
Freddy
Awesome guys. I did not know that they made extra large handles for Dutchies. Now i need to get one
Thanks for the excellent shop tour! Sometimes I forget how much work it takes to make something even as simple as a knife. It was fun to see that they have process steps as simple as wood drying and as modern and as complicated as a robot knife grinder. With the amount of cutting fluid that robot grinder uses I don't think that there will be a problem with burned edges on Karesuando knives! They really seem to have struck a good balance between supporting local labor and making a great quality product. Thanks again for the tour. :)
+PM in Oregon Glad you liked it! What surprised me the most is the fact that all the materials come from Sweden, and most of them not far from the factory itself. I really have a hope of getting to do something like this one day. Make something at least.
Freddy
Sorry to be so off topic but does any of you know a method to get back into an Instagram account?
I was stupid lost the account password. I appreciate any tips you can give me
@Lachlan Jaziel instablaster :)
@Briggs Gibson i really appreciate your reply. I got to the site through google and I'm in the hacking process atm.
Takes quite some time so I will reply here later with my results.
@Briggs Gibson it worked and I finally got access to my account again. Im so happy:D
Thank you so much you saved my account !
Excellent, informative video. I have a Karesuando Grouse (Ptarmigan) and can vouch for the quality. Thanks for sharing.
Dave
Very interesting video! Thank you so much! Now I know where my new knife is made! 🙂👍
took me a few to get to the vid but way to go guys, great vid. It's a shame the world isn't more populated by craftspeople rather than machines. Great tour, those scenic towns always seem awesome to me even if there isn't a lot to do. Hope everything is cool on your end guys, cheers from IN, USA this Bud's for you. keep it real
+Macho Deth I'm with you, people doesn't make stuff anymore, or fix the shit they buy. They're too busy looking at their cell phones. Even though we share a lot of the fauna with Karesuando, it really is quite different topography wise. It's so flat in those parts.
Cheers mate!
Freddy
I was on the fence about buying the Huggaren. But seeing your video has made my mind up for me. Thanks.
Much handmade, interesting subject, I liked it very well, thank you very much.
super great video true craft men and women this is not something I very much of these days Thanks guys!!
Awesome vid and really beautiful tools they make for sure they are worth the money. Great channel thx for sharing!
+Michael Spanjers Thanks for Watching Michael and for the praise :)
Snake
Thank you for doing this. It was really interesting to watch.
+QualeQualeson Thanks for watching this food channel.
Freddy
She was doing what’s called “shiving”- thinning the leather to glue and fit.
This is way cool! Thanks
- Martin
+NorwegianWoods Hi Martin, thanks man :) glad to see your channel picking up aswell.
Snake
I have some plans for the channel. It shall be really fun to see how it goes :)
Keep on rocking - Martin
Great video, thanks for sharing!
+kaziklu79 thanks for watching man :)
Snake
Can you please Review Karesuando Vildmark, You guys are great!
thanks for the tour bro's!
+Tactical Thanks Tac, and a huge thanks to the people at Karesuando Knives!
Freddy
Great vid. You guys giving the story and details made it even better. How much antler and tusk dust did you guys take home? Who licked more, who licked first?
+M Par The evenings in the cabin up there was kinda slow, so it was good to have endless amounts of antler dust at hand. Hard to say who licked more, it was all good maaaaan.
Freddy
.great video. Loved getting a glimpse of how things are made. Hope they gave you one of those diamond knives haha.
+zoo They unfortunately didn't give us one, but I bought one and now I live in a cardboard box in the middle of the freeway.
Freddy
Awesome video brothers!
+MISTER AGB Thanks a lot, glad you liked it.
Freddy
hey ! what was there to do around the town while you weren't filming ?
+john rossi Well it's not a big place up there. Only a couple of stores, so there wasn't much to do, but killing mosquitos. We did have a plan of going on a longer hike, but my health didnt permit anything like that unfortunately.
Freddy
Thank you so much for this great video, mates! 👍🏻🔪
Sweet u guys are back!
+Austin B. They weren't gone bro ;)
+MISTER AGB Over a month since day 2, yeeeah they were sort of gone ;)
PSportz Well, snake and freddy have jobs, in their spare time they make video's, and come on, it's impossible for them to go to the forest to test a item every single day, it just takes some time for them to make their video's, it's their hobby not their job :)
+MISTER AGB I know ofc that they work. First i wasn't super serious ;) And secondly about your point of go to to the forest every day, my comment obviously referred to this trip and the time between the releases of day 2 and day 3 :)
PSportz hmm oke ;)
They release that video a little late because they dont want to upload 3 video's in a few days and then have no video for 3 months straight, they try to spread the goodness :-)
Just purchased one of their small hatchets 👍
Thanks for the video guys . Whats the machine at (9:06min) that grinds the macro bevel of the knife by high speed grinding wheels . Whats theese machines called . ? Thank you.
We have no idea to be honest. It's pretty specialized for the task, so it might just be a special purpose machine, made by a manufacturer on a special order. Reading through the lines here, we have no idea.
Freddy
Good to know how your`e knife is made!
+Jakt Och Vildmark Sure is, learned a ton from this trip.
Freddy
Im fairly sure that little piece of leather is so that you dont cut the string with your knife ( i think ) AWESOME video guys :) looking forward to the next one :)
SKÅL !!!
+CRILLER3 I think you're right monsieur Criller3, thanks and SKÅL!
Freddy
Such skill
Kiitos, että jaoit tämän
Nå syns jeg ikke en Karesuando kniv er spesielt dyr. Det er sjeldne arbeidsplasser vi får se. Fine særegne kniver er det også. Takk for turen!
+Grasbakken71 Det var fine kniver før vi dro oppover. De ble veldig spesielle kniver i samlingen etter at vi fikk møte folkene som lager dem. Takk for at du ser på!
Freddy
that was great!
+dandandatreeman Thanks bro!
Freddy
Nice video - but why the loud music in the background? It is annoying.
Looks like she was building a welt for the sheath. Looks similar to building a welt it's how I do it
Nice tour. How about Helle next?
+Stakkatoking Hehe, guess who we asked first to do this? They didn't want to do anything like this, and that is of course ok with us. Cant say I'm not disappointed, but hey, we got to see Karesuando.
Freddy
Great footage and commentary as usual. Stone that goddamn crow \m/
+Användare 13 Thanks mate!
Freddy
......the leather block is called a " welt " .
Are there no other knife makers that have watched this
nice nice
Yeah, our hands aren't the only large body parts we dutch men have ;)
+MISTER AGB Haha, yeah I've seen that. Hands and buttcracks, it really is odd to see the crack starting just below the neck. :)
Freddy
Fire and Steel Ahahaha ;)
Солидно!!
The Chinese think it work ,no .Peter from South Africa,I would like u guys do more,look how back pack are made or tens
did you guys have a knife made for yourselves..........or me ??? lol......PAPA DUKES
+john rossi Sorry to say, nope. It would be cool though, to have a chance to use all their machines to make a knife for yourself. It would most likely look like shit, but at least it would've been selfmade.
Freddy