Two or three things about a Triflex Craftsman that bear noting.
1. Handle, as it comes, is kind of slick, and my grip on it isn't great, as the knife comes. BUT: rough up the handle with some coarse sandpaper, and it becomes almost as grippy as a Clipper.
2. I've had the edge of the edge roll just a bit when batoning hardwood before sharpening it. I think this is the very-edge-of-the-edge-gets-softened-by-the-polishing-process phenomenon others have observed with Mora knives. Solution: sharpen it a few times, and you get to the really hard steel a fraction of a millimeter back from the very edge of the blade.
3. The Craftsman has a wide lanyard hole that lines up exactly with a widening in the belt part of the scabbard. By putting a mini-carabiner through both, you can lock the knife into the scabbard such that it cannot come out. Good security if you envision a use that involves potential hard knocks and you can afford to take 20 seconds to unhook the carabiner. Of course, you can just leave the carabiner hooked through the lanyard hole and UNattached to the scabbard, and you have instant access to the knife, with the OPTION of securing it more fully. Good for, say, a kit that lives in your briefcase or something.
4. For whatever it's worth, the Craftsman scabbard is slimmer in its blade portion than are the other modern-style Mora knives. Will fit places where the fatter scabbards for, say, the M2K won't fit. Might be interesting to know.
Bottom line: I love these knives, and used one at the core of a survival kit I made for my dad when he was on his way to Central America for a church medical mission. I trust them. I think they benefit from handle-roughening and out-of-the-box sharpening. Hard to beat the price. And I love the fact that you can REALLY secure the knife into the scabbard, if you so choose.
