Where can I get an authentic Kuksa?

katyr · Post by **katyr** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:15 pm

Hi,

I want to buy my husband a kuksa for his birthday. I've been looking around the net and it seems that there are lots of fakes that are not made out of birch burl and they'll crack after a few years.

How can I make sure that the one I buy is 'the real I am'? Can anyone recommend a website or method of determining if it's a real or fake?

Thanks in advance for any help

Katy

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EP · Post by EP » Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:22 pm

For example here:

http://www.eratukku.fi/product_info.php ... cts_id=129

Or Partioaitta (in Helsinki it is in Yrjönkatu if I remember right).

katyr · Post by **katyr** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:23 pm

Thanks EP,

Is there anyway I can tell if it's real and not some other kind of wood?

EP · Post by EP » Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:23 pm

And they would not risk their reputation by selling fakes.

katyr · Post by **katyr** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:24 pm

Ah I see, that's great...

Thanks for your help

MagicJ · Post by **MagicJ** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:23 pm

I gave one to my best man after his speech at my wedding, having resisted drinking before the speech as he was really nervous he promptly filled it with alcohol, downed the lot and never saw the cup again.
Ungrateful drunken bastard.

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