We had the privilege of working with Lars for many years, during which Casström and Lars collaborated to design and produce three knives, as well as translate five of his bushcraft and survival books into English.

Lars Fält was a world-renowned survival expert and outdoorsman. His career began in the Swedish Army, where he founded the Swedish Armed Forces Survival School and served as its Chief Instructor for many years. Following his military career, Lars dedicated himself to educating civilians with a passion for the outdoors. Over his lifetime, he authored more than ten books on bushcraft and survival skills.

Through his teaching, writing, and leadership, Lars had a profound and lasting impact on the world of bushcraft and survival, influencing generations of practitioners across the globe and helping to shape modern outdoor knowledge and practice.

Roger Harrington

Roger Harrington is the founder of Bison Bushcraft and chief organiser of the Wilderness Gathering - check it out here:-

https://www.wildernessgathering.co.uk/

Roger is 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

Alan Wood is one of Britain’s most respected custom knifemakers, known for his practical, elegant designs for bushcraft, hunting and field sports. He made his first knife as a boy in the early 1970s, when camping, fishing and hunting with an air rifle made a good knife an essential everyday tool. Inspired by Sid Latham’s book Knives and Knifemakers, discovered in his local library, Wood became fascinated by the emerging handmade knife scene in Britain. 

After working in Forestry Research and later training as a Craft, Design & Technology teacher, he realised his true vocation lay in knifemaking. In 1985 he became a full-time maker, marking his 40th anniversary in the trade in 2025. Over four decades he has produced everything from Bowies and survival knives to military blades, though he is now best known for refined outdoor knives designed for bushcraft and field sports.

His work has become highly influential within British knifemaking and he is widely recognised for collaborations with outdoor expert Ray Mears. Alan Wood was the original knife maker who worked with Ray Mears to develop the first Woodlore bushcraft knife in the early 1990s.  

Alan designed the Casström Safari Mini-Hunter for Casström — a compact and highly capable hunting knife.