Yep, another cheap one at that!
At £5.95 this heavy duty knife is pretty damn good! equal in quality to the Mora range but at a lower cost. I bought this with plans for a rehandle job around 5 weeks ago so it's techincally not new as such, but it was left unused until today. I've had a go on some wood and some paper to see how it cuts and the unusal grind/s perform as I expected - not brilliant for carving finer details but good as an all round light weight toughy.
The handle is great and I kind of feel hesistant to start cutting it off and sticking a new one on. It gives a good grip, thick enough for hard use and the length is good for wearing gloves or having big hands. I wonder if I can do a good enough job to make up for removing the original?
Anyway, it's the Hultafors heavy duty knife. It comes with a very good sheath and a nice thick blade of decent steel so it'll make either a good project or a nice back up knife for the collection.
Here's some pic's I took earlier...
And one trying to show that odd grind/edge. It's basically a heavy scandi but with a very obtuse secondary V ground bevel.. I think a few minutes on the diamond stones will have this working a little better for me. I'll probably go for a convexed scandi, to keep it tough enough for fighting the dreaded hole dwelling beasts known as badgers..
And a picture of the blade next to a Mora to show just how chubby it is .
And one of the tang - this is a picture sourced from google and I haven't done this yet!
So, I hope you like the pictures and a big heads up for these knives, total bargains even at twice the price!
feel free to post your modded heavy duties or any dieas on what sort of handle to go for, I've got plenty of good plumb a bit of brass sheet left.
At £5.95 this heavy duty knife is pretty damn good! equal in quality to the Mora range but at a lower cost. I bought this with plans for a rehandle job around 5 weeks ago so it's techincally not new as such, but it was left unused until today. I've had a go on some wood and some paper to see how it cuts and the unusal grind/s perform as I expected - not brilliant for carving finer details but good as an all round light weight toughy.
The handle is great and I kind of feel hesistant to start cutting it off and sticking a new one on. It gives a good grip, thick enough for hard use and the length is good for wearing gloves or having big hands. I wonder if I can do a good enough job to make up for removing the original?
Anyway, it's the Hultafors heavy duty knife. It comes with a very good sheath and a nice thick blade of decent steel so it'll make either a good project or a nice back up knife for the collection.
Here's some pic's I took earlier...
And one trying to show that odd grind/edge. It's basically a heavy scandi but with a very obtuse secondary V ground bevel.. I think a few minutes on the diamond stones will have this working a little better for me. I'll probably go for a convexed scandi, to keep it tough enough for fighting the dreaded hole dwelling beasts known as badgers..
And a picture of the blade next to a Mora to show just how chubby it is .
And one of the tang - this is a picture sourced from google and I haven't done this yet!
So, I hope you like the pictures and a big heads up for these knives, total bargains even at twice the price!
feel free to post your modded heavy duties or any dieas on what sort of handle to go for, I've got plenty of good plumb a bit of brass sheet left.
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