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Lars Fält We have had the pleasure of working with Lars for a number of years now. To date, Casström and Lars have worked together to design and produce three knives and translated into English five books on bushcraft, survival, and the outdoors.

Lars Fält is a world-renowned survival expert and outdoorsman. His career in the outdoors began in the Swedish Army, where he founded the Swedish Armed Forces Survival School and was the Chief Instructor there for many years. After leaving the army, Lars focused on educating civilians with an interest in the outdoors. To date, he has written over ten books on bushcraft and survival skills.

English knife maker and outdoorsman Roger Harrington

Roger Harrington is the founder of Bison Bushcraft and an experienced outdoorsman who has taught Bushcraft and Survival to civilian and military clients for the last twenty years. His influences come from family involvement in The Scout Movement and his extensive travels around the world researching primitive living skills. He is also a Master Craftsman in the design and manufacture of knives.

The very popular Casström Woodsman knife was designed by Roger.

Alan Wood has been a professional knifemaker since 1985 and has become one of the UK’s most emulated craftsmen due to his practical and attractive designs. Alan is perhaps best known for his collaboration with bushcraft and survival expert Ray Mears, in making the Woodlore knife.

Alan has designed the Casström Safari Mini-Hunter, which has proved a hit with deerstalkers.

G3 Swingblade

I had a friend with a G3 Swingblade in a word
It was fantastic so I bought one and it’s the best knife I’ve ever owned.

Loved everything.

Brilliant quality

My favourite knife

I already owned a lars falt knife which was my favourite knife at the time. I wanted another lars falt in stainless for trips around water but since casstrom don’t make one I bought this knife. To my surprise I found that I preferred this knife to the lars falt (and every other knife I own) because:

1. The handle is extremely ergonomic. The handle locks into your fist perfectly and has a beautiful coke bottle shape that you can’t really appreciate until you see it in real life. The area just before the spine is wide so you don’t get the painful pressure against your hand I often find with narrower handles when feathersticking. The curve at the end of the handle means your 3rd and 4th fingers get lots of leverage when making power cuts.

2. The length of the blade seems perfect. I find that I have a lot of control over the tip at 10cm where slightly longer blades start to feel a little unwieldy when carving. The 4mm stock means it batons extremely well.

3. The steel is great. The grind comes with a 30 degree sharpening angle and I reprofiled it to 25 degrees. (I always make my scandis 25 degrees because I like how aggressive this angle is). I’ve found the 14c28n steel is still tough enough that I have had no edge problems at this low angle even at a zero grind. It holds an edge well and I can’t tell the difference in edge holding between this and sleipner while it’s very easy to get a razor edge.

I own several knives from Fallkniven, Lionsteel, Helle, Brisa and Mora but this knife is consistently the one I find myself picking up every time I go on a bushcraft trip.

Field Dresser

I have dozens of knives, some very expensive (£400+) and some very cheap(£12+) and they're all good at what they were designed for but I have to admit that the Field Dresser is my favourite. It is small, lightweight, easy to use and even easier to sharpen. It takes a bit of getting used to, being basically an upside down cutting edge but what a great idea! I used it for the first time last weekend on 3 Roe deer that I'd shot and it was flawless..without being too graphic, it processed all 3 deer perfectly up until a more dedicated butchering knife was needed.. 10/10 from me.

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