Craftline Robust Fixed-Blade Knife with Carbon Steel Blade and Combi-Sheath, 3.6 Inch

- Craftline Robust - - Truly a robust small blade knife. - Very sharp out of the bag. - The blade did appear to have a small amount of surface corrosion near the handle. Not sure if the corrosion is on the steel inside the handle, but I would assume so, because it is all the way to where the blade meets the handle. - The non-stainless blade was not coated with oil, but had a mirror polished finish. - Excellent for shaving wood. It cuts steak well, but leaves metalic taste and stains easily - I won't do that again. - I like the plastic sheath. It is well made and sturdy while also flexible. It fits onto another Morakniv craftline sheath I already had. The sheath is exactly the same as the other (Marakniv Pro all around stainless knife). - The handle is VERY comfortable and has a very nice, solid rubbery grip. It will fit up to about 3 3/4" wide palm without exceeding the handle grip area. - The knife spine is unfinished and soft edged. I sanded mine to a sharp 90 degree edge with a dremmel sanding wheel. I also notched in some shallow jimping on it easily with a dremmel cut off wheel. It took about 5-10 minutes total. Now it will throw sparks using a fire steel and my thumb doesn't slide while pushing on the blade spine. - Thick blade does not flex side to side under medium pressure usage. It's stout. - Excellent value for a tough working knife.

After ruining the tip of my Morakniv Companion, I wanted my next Morakniv to be thicker. I decided to try the Craftline Robust over the Companion Heavy Duty because I thought the smaller knife would give me a smaller conceal profile and be better suited to the length laws where I live, but the sheath really doesn't do that well so I'm disappointed with that. The reason being is that the knife handle is at a slight angle away from the sheath wall, and the sheath has that connector tab, which I may cut off and file down. Plus the Companion's sheath is just overall way better feeling too. So the sheath was a bit of a let down coming from the Companion, but that's splitting hairs really as the sheath is still an excellent sheath for what it is. I was just not expecting that the Companion would conceal with a lower profile than the Craftline would. So I feel like I made the wrong choice here, but it's still a Morakniv so I can't complain. The handle is great, it's very comfortable and big hands would like it too. It feels weird to have no thumb grip though. This knife is made to have the thumb be able to rest on the spine for fine work, but I'm going to file the spine with some spaced indents to create a thumb grip because the smooth spine is too much slip for my liking. It was actually the gray color that initially attracted me to this knife. The only flaw I find is that the handle does not fully seal at the base of the knife as there is a 0.1mm gap on both sides of the blade. The Robust's blade is very nice, thick and sturdy, and Morakniv's reputation of having top tier heat treating and all. Sweden has some of the best steel ore in the world as well and they've been making knives for a long time, so don't let the low price make you think the quality is not here, it's just a phenomenal knife for the price. The only thing you don't get is a full tang, but whatever plastic Morakniv uses for the handle is also some mad strong plastic that's built to last. It is no ordinary plastic handle. I got the high carbon version but Morakniv's stainless steel is actually super good, making their high carbon knives a bit pointless actually because they're the same price and quality. I'm going to blue mine with some Birchwood Casey and seal it in some kind of oil. The factory edge is good too but I had to strop mine with some diamond powder polishing compound. It has a secondary micro bevel. I bought a Companion Heavy Duty for someone else and noticed that it too has a second micro bevel. I don't know when Morakniv started doing this as my first Companion was a full bevel like Scandi is supposed to be. Unless I'm wrong about this, but I'm not fond of the second bevel for my uses so I'm going to have to sharpen mine. The blade length actually feels weird compared to the Companion. I thought it wouldn't matter since I rarely make use of the full length anyways, and it's only half an inch reduced, but I already think I should've gone with a Companion Heavy Duty. The Craftline series is $5 cheaper than the Companion series, so it's an okay trade off in terms of price. This knife was on sale when I bought it, so being under $15 for a Robust is fine by me. In the end, I would suggest the Companion Heavy Duty over the Craftline Robust as you really get a lot more with that $5 and $5 isn't much of a difference, but both are very nice, top quality at a low price. I actually have a morapuukko knife from another brand that I like more which is like in the middle of the these two knives for handle shape and price, but this was on sale and I wanted to try it out. Mine came in plastic bag instead of a box or package, which I found strange, but it's still giftable either way. Morakniv knives make wonderful gifts for people, as they are useful and good quality plus low priced.

I have an Al-Mar folding knife that I paid $140 for more than 25 years ago, and I think this is a better knife despite the fact that I paid less than $16 for it ... IF you keep in mind that this knife is designed as a tool and not as a pretty folding blade with fancy wooden sides. This is probably the sharpest knife, right out of the plastic bag that it comes in, that I have ever bought. With NO micro bevel. The bevel that you CAN see, starting about 1/3 of the way up from the edge, is sharpened from the start of the bevel all the way to the edge, providing an edge sharp enough to shave hair from your arm without appreciable effort. The "Robust" adjective given this knife is certainly well deserved. The handle has a rubbery feel that is certain to give you a very good grip although the gray plastic insert in the center of the handle is rather slick. The thickness of this blade is also certain to provide you with the greatest durability that can be had for a knife this size. The spine of the blade, has been left rough, ostensibly so that it will easily draw sparks from a ferrocerium rod, although I have found it impossible to do so on my 1/2" x 6" rod. No big deal, as I have a dedicated striker on the same lanyard as my ferrocerium rod. This is a Carbon Steel knife, which is a great plus for this knife. Carbon steel knifes keep their edge longer than stainless steel knives do and maintaining that sharpened edge is easier. The only thing that I have seen so far that I do not like about this knife is that there is no lanyard hole at the far back end of the handle. But again, no big deal as this is not a full tang knife, and I can easily drill a hole for a lanyard should I continue to lament its lack. My first action performed with this knife was to create a small pile of shavings from a piece of pine limb that is SO hard that I HAD to use a chain saw to cut off an 8 inch length so that I could use a freshly sharpened hatchet to split into kindling. The small piece of wood that I cut the shavings from is shown in the photo below. This tiny pile of shavings took a good 5 minutes to create, and when I was done with this high effort task, I could not tell the difference in how sharp the knife is compared to how sharp it WAS, fresh out of the shipping package. Despite the hardness of the wood. I normally give a maximum of 4 stars, in any review, thinking that there must be something better somewhere that just haven't seen yet, but I have, without any hesitation, given this knife a full five stars, as the quality of this knife, added to its remarkably low price make it a knife that truly deserves five stars. I do indeed LOVE this knife. I anticipate a great number of years of usage where this solidly built knife is concerned. I just cannot believe how satisfied I am with this very impressive knife.

Vraiment content de ce couteau, tranche super bien, parfait pour mes sorties camping.

Great budget knife.

Boa e robusta muito útil

📦 CONFEZIONE Arrivato ben protetto e completo. Il fodero leggero è ideale sia per il trasporto alla cinta che nello zaino. ✅ PRO - Affilatura duratura e lama di spessore maggiore rispetto alle altre alternative (3.2mm). - Manico in plastica leggera e funzionale, completo di paramano. - Presente l'alternativa con lama al carbonio, facile da mantenere con un po' di olio di vasellina. - Perfetto per attività all'aperto, escursioni, ed attività occasionali pesanti (ad esempio un leggero batoning con ceppi non esageratamente grandi). ❌ CONTRO - Lama più corta rispetto ad altri modelli (9cm), potrebbe non essere ideale per tutti gli usi. CONSIDERAZIONI Un coltello robusto e essenziale, perfetto per chi cerca un'opzione di qualità a un prezzo conveniente. Ideale per escursioni e attività outdoor, consigliato sia per i neofiti che per gli appassionati di coltelli da campo.

Simply put, it's difficult to go wrong with a mora knife. I have many mora knives and they all still impress after years and years of use. This Morakniv Robust pro (not craftline model)has a blade of 22.23mm tall from cutting edge to the spine, thickness is 3.18mm and the blade length (cutting edge) is 86.84mm. The Robust pro bevel angle is 27 degrees which is more biting than the older 23 degree bevel of the longer and more narrow mora knives that have more flexible blades made of different steel. This Mora Robust Pro takes easy to a razor sharp edge and keeps it for a long time, and only requiring regular stropping to keep that hair shaving edge. This is a carbon steel blade knife so it does rust & or corrode, but keeping it clean and dry isn't particularly difficult. This Robust pro is more chisel like so it digs in more than the older mora's so it's not as good for debarking a tree to make a tent stake because it digs into the wood too much. However all other tasks are very quick with this knife such as making a point on a 1" thick piece of hardwood took under 10 seconds. The stainless version of this knife is the "Morakniv Pro S" and is made with 12c27 stainless steel which is better than the common stainless steels such as 440c. The Robust pro in it's sheath is very light and you don't event notice that's it's there most of the time. The only con i can think of is that the handle is too small for people with larger hands.