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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 17:43:28 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces

*Who needs a high-tech, ruggedized Leatherman kitchen-knife for 300 bucks, just to do a little light domestic cooking in Turin, Italy
*Well, that would probably be me
https://www.leatherman.com/collections/knives/products/rustle

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  Steinar Bang (steinarb@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 19:37:06 JST Steinar Bang
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  @bruces Here in Norway, and especially in Northern Norway, we tend to use one of these for... well... everything... when camping, from cutting wood for a campfire to cleaning fish to cooking
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_knife
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    The Sami knife (Skolt Sami: jõnn-neiʹbb, Inari Sami: stuorrânijbe, Northern Sami: stuorraniibi, all of which mean "big-knife", and Finnish: lapinleuku, leuku or lapinpuukko) is a large knife traditionally used by the Sami people. Uses and structure The Sami knife has a long, wide, and strong blade that is suited for light chopping tasks such as de-limbing, cutting small trees for shelter poles (See lavvu), brush clearing, bone breaking and butchering tasks, and is sometimes used as a substitute for an axe for chopping and splitting small amounts of firewood from standing dead trees—an essential ability when all dead and fallen wood is buried underneath many layers of snow—or for combat. Typical Sami knives have a blade length ranging from 200 millimetres (7.9 in) to 450 millimetres (18 in). The handle is generally made from birch for better grip when used in snowy conditions. This also provides good control over the blade, particularly when using draw strokes, which are preferred when handling the knife with gloves, or while the hands are numb...
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  LillyLyle/Count Melancholia (lillyherself@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 02:26:17 JST LillyLyle/Count Melancholia
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  @bruces Already sold out in the UK, must be a lot of rich people around!
  
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