Helle Announces Limited Edition Temagami Knife Designed By Les Stroud
The original Temagami knife was released in 2011 and now 10 years later Helle has announced the Limited Edition Temagami 14C28N to commemorate the occasion. Temagami is a state-of-the-art outdoor knife and the first full tang knife made by Helle, combining the knowledge of knife use by a true outdoorsman and the history and craftmanship of the Helle design team. Helle and Les Stroud also teamed up to create the Wabakimi knife back in 2018.
“Once you endeavor to become a ‘woodsman’ or an outdoor guide of any pursuit, it is inevitable that you will begin to become comfortable with ‐ and then likely obsessed with ‐ your ‘bush knife’. This certainly was my experience. And as fate would have it, one of the first knife brands I found in my hands was Helle. Instantly I recognized the beautiful marriage of form and function so perfectly crafted by Helle knives. I used a few different models for hundreds of adventure trips and survival expeditions in the wild. I used them for cutting rope and carving traps and possibly the most important adventure job for a knife of all: spreading peanut butter on my bagel.
When, by complete chance Helle contacted me (I shall let them say why they did that), to inquire about developing a knife together I was simultaneously honored and excited. Finally, I could have my druthers and design and build a knife that would combine all of the elements of adventuring that I considered important.
They did not disappoint in that my main contact there: Anders Haglund and I spent many, many months going over blade and steel and grip and wood type and tang until at last we were ready to launch our first design: The Temagami. Thusly named after the first place I ever experienced outdoor adventure.
The Temagami pulls together the ruggedness required to be worthy of any kind of outdoor adventure with the elegance of the curly birch grips and the sizing that fits just about every hand out there, somehow perfectly. I have been fortunate enough to even visit the factory, where I was able to walk through (and participate in) every stage of making the knife from the steel to the wood to the sheath.
My TV series Survivorman was the zeitgeist of all survival TV. Without it, the others would not likely exist. My Helle knife has been there now with me for the past ten years of adventuring around the globe. And I suspect that it will be there for 40 more years of wilderness adventure and survival.
It’s easy to say in a marketing brief that your brand strives for the utmost quality and design beauty along with function. Helle actually means it.”
Specifications Temagami 14C28N
Wood: Curly Birch
Steel: 14C28N
Steel thickness: 3,0 mm
Branding on blade: Temagami 14C28N
Construction: Half fulltang
Sheath: Brown Leather
Find your local retailer (here in Canada) to obtain one of these special knives and check out Helle’s blog post to learn more about the collaboration.
Evan Holt
