Hultafors 380020 GK Heavy Duty Knife

The Hultafors Heavy is a very light weight knife with japanese 1080 carbon steel blade and three fourths partial tang in a solid polymer handle. The 3.75 long x .125 inch wide blade can be seen going through its paces on youtube. The tip of the blade is thick and does not have the typical mora bevel. The blade is stainless which will decrease maintanance and oiling. The green handle is solid and extends the hand guard for better hand and finger protection. The rear of the hand guard also has a taper for extraction in blade wedge situations. The knife is inexpensive light weight and best of all, can be modified. The blade can be blued, and the green handle can be dimpled with a soldering iron, the plastic pommel can be drilled 1/4" from the end, with only proper safety measures, and a paracord lanyard can be attached. The sheath is similar to the swiss mora sheaths, but it is unique in that it is wide enough to attach to molle webbing. The black plastic sheath has a drainage hole. The hultafor heavy has a remarkably tough and durable blade for the cost. It is a good option as a bush craft, fishing and work knife that can be easily modified. The tang on this knife has been viewed by radiograph, whereby images are available. The Hultafor heavy seems to to have the edge on the Mora Robust and Heavy Companion. The blade width and tip bevel as to resist bending or cracking when prying with the beefier handguard seem to favor the Hultafor. As a cost efficient light weight military task knife that can be mounted on molle gear, the Hultafor works, but it would need some adaptions for sheath retention given the activity and environment. Perhaps a snap or velcro retention strap or even an expensive fifty dollar kydex sheath. The Hultafor does not replace a full wang Companion, but it does not have the cost and weight associated with a premium edged escort. The Hulatfor Heavy is a green cutting machine, which would make any chef, cook or butcher proud to push into into the cheapest meat or poultry. Don't even ask about performance when butter or cheese is involved. This knife is capable of battoningthrough a hundred wheels of amish swiss stacked to the barns ceiling. The curvature of the blade seems to be designed by a rocket scientist when tasked with spreading peanut butter on a flimsy saltine cracker. Goes right on with one swipe without the slightest of crumbling. Imagine this knife carefully scrapping nail polish off your significant others townails, or even in the emergency tool box on the international space station. Can't get out of your sleeping bag while weightless in zero gravity, grab your hultafors and slice the zipper out. Need an extraction tool to bust out the side wind of your Caddilac CTS, just drill a vertical hole in the pommel and epoxy a phillips head bit. This knife would easily puncture a gas tank, or even cut through one of those skinny racing bicycle tires, remember the song by Queen. Freddy would have had a Hultafors for slicing pumpkin pie and buttering and dicing cucumbers and carrots for a three layer salad with calamari. Need a deep sea fishing knife, then get a haltafors and soak it in WD40 or balistol well. Carbon steel with 58 to 60 rockwell hardness tempered from a molten steel furnace somewhere around Fufashima, just keep the salt washed off and wipe it down with a little olive oil and you could cut prime fillets from Godzilla and the Lok Ness Monster. For big game, you need to wrap your hands around a big handle, and that's where the Hult sucedes, where others wimp out and shirk to the little fingers curled around their skinny little shanks of rusty dullness. Grandma always liked to chop her meat with a big fat knife, perhaps a little neanderthal DNA left over from the stone age, but she never used a little pairing knife when caning pickled pigs feet and hog malls and other tasty parts from the far side of the pork bellies. Granny used an old hickory back then, and she had the scars to show for every time she slipped and cut a finger. Times were tough during the great depression, and the knives and grandmas were even tougher. Not much has changed during the great recession, but at least this knife has the approval of many modern grannies, who use this hulkster green knife to prepare sushi, tofu and chop weiners for the baked beans. The mystery carbon steel is shiny and reflects the last rays of the setting sun. Get one before they introduce a stainless steel version with a pink handle.....

I bought this knife as a spare and to have another knife with a scandi grind. I have to say that I am impressed. It came sharp. Hair shaving no hair splitting sharp. The slight secondary bevel was polished making me think that it was stropped. The spine showed signs of the blade being pressed out from the steel. Since I will use this with a ferro rod around my forge and campfires, I took time to square it up a little more. It threw sparks without doing this but not very well.I took it out to the forge and grabbed a piece of oak limb and made a small one stick fire. I batoned it through the oak and then made some feather shavings. I lit them with a ferro rod using the spine of the knife. The blade is high carbon steel and has more belly at the tip than a mora which means it would make an okay blade for skinning. Maybe not as a primary but as a bakup to a skinning knife. With the way it holds an edge and it's all round usefullness I'll probably take it with me hunting since it is light to carry. It handled all tasks with ease and remained hair shaving sharp. I really like the plastic handle of the knife. It is the best plastic handle I've found on any knife. I find it easy to use in the forehand grip with no hot spots while carving and even doing some heavier cutting. It also feels good in the hand when doing chest lever cuts. The grip shape is comfortable and allows a good firm grip. I already want a couple more of these.Many have said they don't like the sheath attachment. I rather do. I found that I could use it on the buttons of my BDU style pants pocket buttons. I don't carry a knife there but it was handy while playing around in shop. Kind of a drop leg knife position. However, my intent was and is to use the knife with a neck carry. I just ran a piece of 550 cord through the handle and locked it down. Then I used a cord lock from a worn out jacked and I have easy adjustment and it breaks free with some effort so there's no worry of chocking myself if it gets caught. You can see that set up in the photo. For belt carry you need to cut the tab off the sheath that protrudes into the button hole as suggested in the directions. I haven't and don't intend to since this is a neck knife and the tab locks the 550 cord in place.After a couple days of use this knife is quickly becoming a favorite and I will likely buy a couple more to keep in the shop and with each of several kits I have. I think I'll put one on my electricians belt as a knife comes in handy for cutting romex sheathing. Then one in my car kit, bob etc... For an inexpensive knife it is hard to beat. For less than $15 it's easy to buy several. I like it better than moras so I'd say it's the best buy of knives under $20

I bought this and a Morakniv Robust to compare as my new camp knife. Wanted something durable and lightweight. Both appear to be great knives, especially for the money. The Hultafors is about 1 ounce heavier (with sheath), which may make it feel slightly more rugged than the Mora but not by much. The Hultafors blade is slightly longer and the handle as well. So if you have large paws you might like it a little more. The Mora's handle is a little more grippy though, the Hultafors wants to slide around a bit more in hand. The Mora is a true scandi grind which gives it a nicer cutting edge, the Hultafors has a secondary bevel which while not as nice would probably stand up to more abuse depending on your use. The sheaths go both ways too. The Mora sheath seems a little more rugged and the belt clip attachment is easier and seems more substantial and be clipped on a belt or just the waitband or really just about anything, but the retention is lack luster. The Hultafors sheaths attachment seems weak. It wouldn't attach to my belt because of the thickness, which really isn't that thick. It might be a better lock up than the Mora's if you find a belt thin enough. However the Hultafors sheath did have better knife retention. Personally I prefer the Mora for a few dollars more. Just seemed a little more refined and as an all around camp knife I like the edge more. However for the price the Hultafors is a tank. With a few mods I think it would be great.