Had problems obtaing a left haneded sheath for my woodsman. I purchased the blade blank years ago and it sat in a draw. Finally put it together and was looking around for a sheath. I'm left handed so this is normally an issue. Not with casstroms. Full range of left handed available and at a good price. Nice quality leather well put together. Perfect fit.
great shape for field dressing deer.
Light weight and with a thin blade that hones to perfection.
travel light and fast and get the job done.
I bought this knife along with the no.14 sfk to use as a companion. It feels and looks like a really scaled down version of the lars falt knife. It’s light enough that it can be carried and you don’t notice it on you. I’ve taken this on hiking trips in the mountains along with a folding saw as the only other cutting tool and successfully split kindling and made fire with it.
It’s more fun to carve with than most other knives because of its small size and the handle is comfortable in any grip. The handle is interesting because it’s narrow and you would think it should be too small, but whatever way they’ve designed it, it sits very nicely in my fingers (rather than in my palm) and I get no hot spots even after hours of using it. It’s also easy to choke up on for fine carving tasks. It’s probably not ideal to really thrash on it with a baton because the front pin in the handle sits right at the narrowest point where the finger cut in is, so maybe could be a weak point, but I do use it to baton knot free pieces of kindling and it has worked well.
I usually reprofile my knives when I get them and prefer the edge to be very acute. I don’t know what the angle was straight from the factory because I’d lost my gauge at the time, but I made it into a very acute Scandi grind, optimised for carving. Once I got a new gauge I measured it at 21 degrees or 10.5 degrees per side with a tiny microconvex. I’ve had no edge problems even at such a fine angle but this is what I’ve come to expect from Casstrom steel. I’ve taken all my other Casstrom knives to 25 degrees and never had an edge problem with any of them. Safe to say that the heat treatment is very good.
If you like a smaller knife that still functions for the normal bushcraft tasks and particularly carving, then this is a solid choice.