Hultafors Heavy Duty GK Knife, $11 Budget Blade 

Adopted this knife as instructors knife for the Bushcraft Associations in 2011 and the first one is still in use and going strong.

I've used this knife for over two years now and it's brilliant. One of the toughest knives I've used and I got it for £7 :)

Yeah!! Told long time ago the Hultafors is a competitor to the Mora! I have a green heavy duty and they rock !

Always find great knife bargins from you. Thanks!

I love the handle. Great vid. Keep em coming!

Looks like a fantastic knife, thanks for the review!

Good review. Just bought one for $11.01 with free shipping on amazon.

I bought one of these a couple of years ago and was really impressed; I have large hands and its by far the most comfortable knife I own for bushcraft, or any task where you need to have a really solid grip with all your fingers, not just choking up on the poll. I took it to work and abused it pretty heavily; chiseling out studs doing formwork and hammering the back edge of the knife to cut through chamfer, I was so impressed at how much abuse it took! i pounded on this thing and it is so damn strong, the end of the handle is also shaped like the butt of a chisel so its strong enough to be driven through a log/oysters/whatever. Mine also came with a Scandi grind and not the edge profile shown here.

Another great no nonsense video

Just ordered mines its coming around feb 20th through 28th, cant wait..... thanx for thr review

Great comparison video - I want a Hultafors HD now :-)

This is an excellent knife . Good all rounder , good quality steel and built like a tank . I use mine all the time for bushcraft and yard work . Hultafors also do a lighter blue handled stainless steel version and that steel is also great quality . Just get one , you can't lose on the price !thanks for another great and informative video and best wishes from Manchester UK !

You're killin' us custom knife makers with these budget knife reviews, LOL! j/k good review & good find!

I got one of these Hultafors heavy duty green handled knives for nephew, as he is really interested in bushcraft and hiking (probably because of Bear Grylls), it only cost £4, along with this knife, I got him some cheap basic equipment and some spare stuff of mine I no longer use, so if it was a short lived fad, all is not lost, a fortune wasn't wasted. When the knife arrived, I had a little lookski, as you do, you gotta inspect that knife, after holding it in my hands for a few minutes. I then immediately went online and ordered myself one. Fantastic knife, don't think you can get better for the price. Tho it will never replace my custom made buscrafter (it's made for my hand and a fine bit of craftmanship), it is however similar to and comparable to a Mora Clipper, and that alone is high praise.

Cool little knife :) Great video buddy

I've had one of these for a few months and I think it's safe to say I'm a Hultafors Fanboy

I love the feel of the Grip, and that it has a Guard to protect your fingers.

The Hultafors OK4 is a tough little bushcraft knife that is hard to beat! I love it!⚔

A really nice review, you convince me to buy one.

sweet little blade!

Better value than most moras imo

Great looking knife there

I really glad that I bought this knife worth the money!!

Nice looking knife.

All nice knives! gotta love them

Hultafors stainless steel is Japanese Aichi AUS-8 steel (roughly equivilant to AISI 440B) and the Carbon steel is Japanese Nishin SK-5 (roughly equivilant to AISI 1080). Both are hardened to about HRC ~ 58.

Proves you can get a good knife even if you are in a budget.

I'll give one a try, thanks.

Nice blade

Good pick

Thanks for that I checked out Hultafors Website..They got some pretty slick goodies..Nice prices to..My Best Brother

This knife and the Hultafors Curved Blade Wrecking knife are my choices for a survival kit.

thanks for this video buddy atb steve

It is SK5.

do you know if its full tang 3/4 tang rat tail or how far it extends into the handle ? thanks

Doing some looking around, it's SK-5

I just received my knife in the mail, and the blade is shorter then I thought. It feels great in the hand. The blade is hair popping shape out of the box and very beefy blade. I have large hands and the handle works grate. It feels heaver then any othere blade that I have in its size range. This knife would be the perfect bugout knife, or hunting knife. Not to sure about the belt loop it does not look like it will work well if at all. This would be great for a backpacking or camping trip. For the price you cant to wrong.

For 11 bucks I say NICE!

Nice

i hultafors heavy duty gk, hvk and hvk gh, I also have mora bushcraft black, hultafors are extremely good and robust knives and low priced which upgrades them excelent knives !!! mora of course is a very good robust knife (including an anti corrosion coat which will be partialy removed after some use, a ferro rod and diamond sharpening placket inlaid on the sheath, other than this the sheath is almost the same as the hultafor's). But the mora bushcraft black is lot more expensive between 60-70 usd if I remeber well, though hultafors cost about 10 usd and still the comfortable handless, the blades and sharpness are practically the same as moras. There is a utube video where a guy put insane abuse on hultafor hvk and it's just amazing the way it holds up!!!

One important point- only the Hultafors has a secondary bevel. The other two have a true Scandi grind, which some think is way better for slicing. There is a vid on You Tube from a chap called The Man Cave where he shaves his beard with a Maura. That's pretty sharp...

I saw a guy show this in another video, holy cow is stringer that a mora companion, but still a good knife,this is thick too for the price too,like a little puukko.

Do you know if it is full tang? Looks good for beating sessions, but if it is not full tang, it will not survive the hammering

I would find a use for this blade especially at the price point...but...bushcrafting would probably not be my first choice for this one. Just personal opinion and preference. Great value no doubt

3:15 im pretty sure thats a Mora companion not a clipper clippers are red with black beaded rubber handle and the light grey mora is a heavy duty companion. Sometimes they miss label the knife when selling it on line.

You will love Bahco 2449. Same price range more or less, maybe 10 times better in any direction. My new catch.

Its true i don't care about brands even some companies are making those under tables as another brand i tested this and bacho and alpina pacho etc all are awesome as mora which i have like 12 of mora all same unless the full tang mora with multiple mounts i bought three from that unique one. Beside my other mora collection

That is the old Mora Robust, Lucky you.

Next time i buy one...

The tang in the handle goes further in the handle as well

What do you recommend for a cheap [

Hey there, is the grind a true scandi-grind? Hard to make out on the video, but it looks like there might be a another bevel on that edge.

sk5 i agree ?

Got mine yesterday. The grind was embarrassing and the edge was dull. I put a convex edge on this knife and it brought it up to Mora standards. I wouldn't recommend this knife when dollar for dollar the Mora Robust is a better knife out of the box. Martini's are nice but IMO feel very cheap in hand but are the sharpest out of the box than all three. 1. Robust 2. Hultafors 3. Martini

Hi,like I sad in previous comment the heavy duty it is heavy duty)And today i have used for first time my condor bushlore,I was carving a spoon...and I am very disappointed because the whole edge of the blade is bended and twisted,I was thinking that I am doing something wrong but I have finished the spoon with my Mora 2000,and did the same tasks on the same wood and the Mora it is alright.Now I have to contact Condor.But with this Hultafors I never had problems for last two years!

Can you review that martinni knife?

U the bomb man

Is this a blade that you can get at a local store like Home Depot or order it anywhere online?

Ahh, I see, mrmalinois already commented on the steel, so I would just like to add one more thing, that is important: Hultafors, just like Mora knives are priced the same in Europe as in the US. This is nice when your other options are $160 BK-7-s and $20 folders sold for $50-$60. (And this 2-2.5x ratio goes for pretty much every other knife too :-( )

Carbon steel is the way to go. You don't need all these designer alloy steels. It's all hype. Looks like a great knife for the price

Maybe someday, though this one is lower on my list than a lot of other things. BTW, you been following all the new stuff coming out of Shot Show?

Hi, I wanted to know if based on your experience this is a reliable knife for hard work? can you rely on him? let me know what you think, thanks Michele. 

Bought this knife for £6 inc pp, very little outlay for a knife if its crap I'll buy the Mora Pro S and the Mora Robust Pro for £22 delivered which I consider excellent value for both the Moras and the Hultafors will go in the toolbox

How to remove corrosion from it?

that's probably hitachi sk4 to sk5, similar to 1080/1084 and 1095 respectively

The steel is reported to be Japanese SK-5. Similar to American 1080.

Hi there - can we see this wee beast in action? Cheers :-)

does it have a secondary bevel or is that just the video?

Sk5 maybe?

There are so many Mora style knives. Lindbloms knivar, Kongsberg etc. I'd rather pay a little more and choose Marttiini. If you want reasonably priced heavy duty scandi knife. Check out J-P Peltonen M07 sissipuukko.

To get an idea of what it takes to break one of these knives (as in the cheap Scandinavian knives) check out this destruction series: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2m1EjwdKpx8.html He tests the Hultafors HVK, the lighter knife with a 2.5mm thick blade. In the fourth and fifth vid he drives it into a tree and stands on it with the blade spine up and the with the blade sideways. He also stands on the handle with about an inch of blade between the handle and the tree... it took the weight and didn't snap, and it wasn't even the heavy duty! LOL So yeah, for the money these little knives are some mean bastards! Makes sense though as they are made for tradesmen, and few are harder on their tools. These things are almost indestructible and nearly free. lol

$26- with shipping on amazon.

www.hultafors.co.uk/products/cutting/knives/craftsmans-knives/heavy-duty-knife-gk/ homepage for the knife, in English, choose other like French or German etc..upper right hand corner. They make axes too. I myself have the HVK-model and I am very pleased with it. The G in the name stands for "Grov" meaning thick, coarse or robust, K is for "Kniv" which surprise! means knife but like in olden English the k is not silent. "Fors" in the name is pronounced like "Force" in English but like gorse in the end i.e. "Forse". Their plumbers knife have an file on the blade. If you have been living in a cave all your life I can tell you that Swedish knives and axes are good, Fällkniven, Mora, Hultafors. Wetterlings, Gränsfors Bruks, there are good Finnsh knives "Puuko" picture google it and if you want tactical "Ranger Puukko" the sheath is incredible it will hold the knife upside down no straps Hyvä on. Hultafors - Craftsman's knives

the hultafors handles are more robust than the mora handles, you can hit a hultafors handle with a steel hammer without any risk of it breaking or getting messed up, if you do the same to a mora handle that is much harder plastic then it will soon crack, however, the steel of the blade is better in the moras than in hultafors. if they combined hultafors handle with a mora blade then they would have the ultimate cheap knife that would last forever.

i don't own a mora and i they have never been on my wish list...but this knife is in the uk you can pick this up for £5.95, :) kutgw

LOL well, since folks are doing reviews on the Hultafors now, they will go up in price like the Mora's, just watch lol

are they full tang or not

there are a knife for painters, so they can open paint canseasier. there's a knife for electricians and a pry bar knife as well. +++++

That's a mora companion not a clipper

The Finns do like shiny knives...

sk5 steel

joe x a essayer aussi

Not in Romania, al the products here arrived like hell..yeah we are a cuntry of the cheap things, the products that can't pass the QA test for other countries, arrived here...Not sharp at all. I woll test it to see if it is the same steel...

Nc6 steel

Mora all day

This knife is in my opinion best bushcraft blade ever made! I have mine since my passion for knives started few years ago, I etched it a few days ago to be only mine with a nice skull logo: scontent-a-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t31/1484063_444633782330051_1938894123_o.jpg Absolutely one of the must haves, especially here in europe ;)

This is the only knife I returned, ever. It was dull, toothy and overall like a chinese ripoff of a mora. I went for a mora next, together with Opinel they are the last European made very inexpensive user knives.

sk5 steel