I just popped into Trueways shop and they had one of the prototypes, looks like it is going to be one hell of a knife! I wouldn’t take the pic on the scorpion website as final as there was some talk of changing the handle profile to make it more user friendly.
It was interesting to listen to Glyn talk about the different use for this tool, including digging and hammering! Things I guess a lot of people on here wouldn't dream of using their knife for these sorts of activities. Having recently got a parrang xl the lofty knife is a completely different animal designed by the look and feel of it to take some serious abuse!
If you thinking of pre-ordering from scorpion I would hold fire as apparently they haven’t made any yet, and that Trueways will be the sole distributer in the UK.
I think this is going to be a knife that you either love or hate, and that you are going to need to embrace the concepts of the design to truly benefit from, I for one can’t wait to get one of my own!