Finman Utility Knife 101

The utility of this little knife will embarrass the more expensive blades.

Incredibly sharp as it comes, superb grip (both in fit and comfort), and inexpensive enough to buy two or three in your first order.
Ideal for fire making, youth introductions to bush craft and as a general purpose farm blade. Great sheath too.
Highly recommended!

I'm quite smitten with this inexpensive little knife. It ticks all the boxes for the perfect companion/neck knife IMHO. It sports a 3.5 inch 2.5mm carbon blade with a highish grind and a plain plastic handle with a light texture and an unobtrusive but functional guard. It's the perfect companion knife to my larger Terava knives and the slightly thicker blade stock (compared to similar Mora offerings) allows it to stretch into the role of a primary knife. This knife has similarities to other Nordic style knives like the Mora 510/511, the Marttiini Condor Timberjack and the Marttiini Black Lumberjack but I think that this knife is better suited to my needs than other similar knives in my outdoor blade arsenal. The sheath is a little different than what I'm used to but it's growing on me. I found that it fit like a glove into an old Buck 119 leather sheath with a couple of simple mods and it also fit into a Barsony leather sheath I had bought off of Amazon for my Mora 511s. Redbeard sells a couple of different sheaths that fit as well. The ones I got (I bought four total) had a slightly damaged tip from the factory, but it proved to be a non- issue as the tip problem was remedied after squaring the spine with a file for use with a ferro rod and scraping bark/tinder. If Redbeard reads this, I hope that he can talk Mr. Lauri into producing a similar knife with a 2.5 inch Lauri carving blade. If they did that and offered it close to the same price as this knife, I would buy ten of them. I've been waiting for the price of the Peltonen Ranger cub to come down for over a year now, but it seems as though it's going to stay around the same price as the Larger Peltonen knives for the foreseeable future. If Lauri made a simpler, more reasonably priced, budget version, I bet it would sell like hotcakes.

I really like the Finman! It's like my Mora Basic 511 only with a slightly more comfy handle but with a less refined, unpolished blade. I like the sheath on the Finman as it can hang on a peg above my work bench or slips easily in a pocket or pack. If you want a knife with a belt sheath, the 511 Mora would be a better choice as the sheath for the Finman isn't really good for a belt in my opinion. Both the Finman and the Mora 511 are my favorite size knives. Buy them both and use the heck out of them, they're cheap enough!!

This is a great knife to gift to someone just getting into wilderness living skills. I love the high scandi grind and thinness of this blade. Handle is not rubber like a mora but a stippled plastic.