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Permalink Reply by John Bamford on May 14, 2016 at 3:38

Having looked on Korpikannel1957 website it appears that the sheath is of cows leather with a fish leather facing 

http://www.arspi.com/puukot/

I had never heard of fish leather before so have had a look on line and it seems there is a lot that I have yet to learn .

http://thefishleather.co/

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Permalink Reply by J.J. Smith III on May 14, 2016 at 8:37

That's a new one on me, John. Eel skin and ray skin are what I would have assumed it would be.

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Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on May 15, 2016 at 15:31

John,

This is kind of amazing.  I was thinking tarpon because I know that skin is tough as leather, I would not have figured salmon!

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FeaturedPermalink Reply by Charles Sample on July 3, 2016 at 18:47

I had never heard of fish leather either.  Learn something new every day!

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In MemoriamPermalink Reply by D ale on July 5, 2016 at 18:19

WOW

I had to look that one up too.

.. Amazing ..

I'm genuinely surprised.

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