How To Use An Ulu Knife

Custom Fabricated Ulu Knives, Custom to Club.

Equally a fillet knife or a skinning knife the ulu is the all-time knife for the job.

Packing a Cariboo Blades handmade ulu on a hike.

An ulu pocketknife for dorsum country every bit part of a survival, hunting or bushcraft kit.

Each ulu is custom made and unique. Cut from a single piece of recovered lumber mill high carbon saw bract steel. Tough and strong modern carbon steel. Afterwards we cease the ulu knife bract, it's differentially hardened with dirt. We go dorsum into the steel with a torch and differentially temper the single stem tough. We leave the heat treatment colours and subtly dispense the clay and drinking glass used in the hardening process creating a patina to reflect the boreal forest. The woods, moose and deer antler for handle material has been recovered from local sources.

We have been making custom ulus for xx years.

The patinas on our custom ulus are a grade of protective oxidation. Effectively sealing the steel against rust. A flake of actress piece of work. Easier to polish them up on a auto. We get out the patinas and temper colours untouched on the finished blades created from the differential clay hardening and the differential atmosphere. The patinas tell a story of how the knife has been made and where information technology's from. The face up of Cariboo Blades. High carbon steel is the easiest steel to acuminate and holds that razor edge longer than stainless steel.

Kitchen ulu on a counter top.

Kitchen ulu. The ulu sits in an apple wood block on your counter top.

This would exist a smaller rustic finished kitchen ulu. 7 one/four inch edge, 1/8 inch single stalk thickness. The blade was formed from recovered lumber factory carbon steel, 15N20. It takes and holds a razor border.
The tang fits into the deer antler betoken handle tight. It's pinned (screwed in) with three threaded contumely pins.

The block was stabilized, submerged in tung oil for 24 hours.

Kitchen tools prepare in a counter top apple knot blocks.

A Cleaver sits in an apple tree knot block.

Kitchen ulu demonstration

An ulu, a paring knife with a chef knife will do 95% your kitchen work. The ulu knife volition cut upwardly craven, fillet fish, mince , slice and dice. It'southward different using your wrist. Once used to it you're likely not going back.

We're making a few recordings on how to employ a kitchen ulu knife. Watch for them.

Nosotros build kitchen duty, standard duty and heavy duty ulus. After the gallery only below, scroll a flake further down to view our Hard disk ulu gallery, kitchen blocks and sheaths.

Custom Handmade Ulu Knives Paradigm Gallery.

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Different styles of handmade ulu knives we've made. Kitchen ulus, bush craft ulus, camping ground, hiking and hunting ulus.

For Heavy Duty ulus scroll downwards a chip further

Visit a Cariboo Blades Ulu knife review.

The ulu pocketknife is an ancient tool. A traditional Inuit Adult female'southward pocketknife design some 4,500 yr old. A tool for a kitchen, a campsite, on a hike or in a bushcraft, survival or hunting kit. For slicing, jerky, filleting, chopping and mincing in a unique and efficient mode or as a head knife for leather work. Equally a hunting tool, the ulu is the best skinning knife, a great tool for your kit. Tools and designs that are proven past people who alive in the harshest conditions on earth.

We make the sheaths by hand out of 8 oz. saddle leather and saddle stitch with a fillet sandwiched between the front and back pieces of leather protecting the sew from the knife edge.
The original designs on the confront of the sheaths are hand drawn and tooled by Aki. You can asking a custom motif.

Prices

one/8 inch thick stems.

Ulu -         $425, 7 - 8 one/two inches of edge - your choice.
Sheaths  -   $200,
Fruit woods knot blocks -  $175

$75 for every extra inch added to the 8 one/2.

Irregular antler handle shapes fit snugly in your hand giving yous a house grip. If you would similar wood for your handmade ulu handle nosotros accept different varieties of local wood.  Balanced at the stem neck and guaranteed to keep a tough and strong razor'due south border. Thicknesses vary between a thin 1mm to 5mm thick. .

A few client comments:

"not certain whether to hang information technology over the pall or really utilise information technology, looks like a piece of art , beautiful craftsmanship, love the tooling, adds a real personal impact." -Blair

"I received my Ulu, and information technology is outstanding. The handle fits my manus perfectly, and balance and feel of pocketknife is tremendous. I plan on taking it into the wood today. Information technology so beautiful, that I desire to display it when I am not using information technology". Thanks and so much again, -Mike

I'thousand just writing to say I received the ULU--another beautiful piece of usable fine art.
Many cheers, happy bound. Marker (Heavy duty ulu)

Handmade ulu. Heavy duty drop point knife.

Heavy Duty Ulu Pocketknife

• hand forged, high bevels with 20 degree secondary bevels.

• 1/4 inch (6.35mm) thick stems.

• 210mm edge

Epitome Gallery

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The blade is made from recovered high carbon steel cutting from lumber mill saw blade.  The one/4" steel is hand forged with a loftier bevel going up into a 1/4 inch thick tough stem. Hardened and differentially tempered for toughness and an edge that holds.
The handle scales are held with threaded stainless steel or brass pins. This is a strong and tough tool designed for the back country.

The sheath is hand made from 8 oz. leather.

Double saddle stitched by hand. A fillet is sewn between the layers of leather protecting the hand stitching from the razor border of the ulu.
Rivets are placed forth the edge and rounded corners for reinforcement.
We've added a braided lanyard to the sheath to tie to your pack. Nosotros can tool in a motif on the sheath. Examples are in the gallery. The motifs and/or initials are included.

Prices

one/4 inch thick stems

Ulus - $ 550, viii.5 inches of border
Sheaths,      $ 250 ,

Cake, $175

Image Gallery of counter top ulu blocks

Astonishing grain and colours. Working art for a counter top. Every block is different.They sit down solid and safely on your counter height.

Nosotros included a few cleavers with blocks for more examples.

Paradigm Gallery. Ulu sheaths styles.

Image Gallery of ulus in knife sets

Making an ulu knife.

LIFETIME GUARANTEE       We guarantee your complete satisfaction with the materials and workmanship on all our tools and knives. All our knives can be sent to us to exist sharpened. The sharpening is on u.s..

Source: https://www.caribooblades.com/custom-handmade-ulu-knives

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