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Frosts Master Craftsmen Triflex Knife | 
 enlarge | Brand: Frosts
Category: Sports
List Price: $30.00
Buy New: $13.99
You Save: $16.01 (53%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 59127
Media: Misc.
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ASIN: B000HAQ688
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Trusted Swedish Name - Frosts | | • | Perfect Utility or Field Knife | | • | High Quality Stainless Steel Blade | | • | Includes Belt Sheath | | • | Measures 8 1/2 inches overall |
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Product Description
Constructed with a 4 1/8 inch triflex steel blade and Polypropylene plastic black handle the Master Craftsmen Triflex Knife is an amazing piece. The Triflex Knife includes an impact resistant plastic sheath and measures 8 1/2 inches overall.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Very good knife for very little money. August 6, 2008
I didn't end up running across Mora style knives until just a year ago, but I've become a quick convert. Now I understand why so many fishermen, outdoorsmen and survivalists sing their praises.
This Mora Triflex knife has a 4 1/8" (105 mm) blade that is .098" thick. That's a little thicker than some of the other Mora style knives from Frost (most of the other Mora knives are .079" thick).
To me thicker generally means that the knife is a little more durable and it means that the knife in question is able to tolerate abuse a little more abuse than it would if it were a little thinner. This knife is pretty durable. I mostly use my Moras as fishing knives or for food prep where their edge holding ability really comes into play since you're using it constantly.
It's a really good knife and one of the best (from the already good) Mora style knives from Frost.
 Good, inexpensive bushcraft knife; benefits from modifications February 28, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Having read many favorable accounts of the knives of Mora, Sweden, and their usefulness in bushcraft and outdoor contexts, I had to try a few to see for myself how they did. The "Triflex" Craftsman was one of my first, and I have considerable respect for this knife. I gather that "Triflex" is used by this manufacturer for high-carbon, non-stainless steel that is "differentially tempered"--that is, the heat treatment is such that the edge is hard, and therefore supposed to hold its sharpness relatively better, while the spine is left somewhat softer, increasing the blade's resiliency and thus its toughness and resistance to breaking. Some of the best blades in the world are made this way. It is a somewhat-complicated thing to do, and thus I was pleasantly surprised to see an inexpensive factory-produced knife with a differentially-tempered blade.
In my somewhat-limited experience, this knife is tough--blade survived being driven through a hardwood stick with a baton, as some wilderness survival practitioners recommend when one wants to cut wood with a small knife. When I did this with a new knife, the very edge of the edge formed a not-so-tough "wire edge" about a hair's breadth in width; when that came off, it rendered the edge dull, but some quick sharpening put it to rights. I have heard that Mora knives sometimes have edges that are a bit soft until you've sharpened them a few times--one theory is that the polishing process, which follows the heat-treatment, may draw the temper from the very edge of the edge and thus soften it, and it takes a few sharpenings to get down past the steel that's been softened by the heat from the polishing, and down into the truly-hard steel underneath. My experience would be consistent with this theory.
The handle is kind of large. It is of a very tough plastic. I cannot imagine breaking this plastic without the violent use of a heavy hammer. The handle was a bit slick when I got the knife new, but I found that scrubbing it with coarse sandpaper converted the slick surface to a very-grippable one that would keep the knife from slipping even under such slippery use as, say, cleaning a fish.
One of my favorite attributes of this knife is the fact that the lanyard hole in the handle lines up directly with a hole in the belt-loop part of the scabbard. What this means is that if you thread a mini-carabiner through the lanyard-hole and through the hole in the scabbard, you can lock the knife into the scabbard, making it very hard for the knife to pop out. (Many of the modern Mora knives are held into their plastic scabbards by merely snapping in, and I've often felt that this method of securing a knife in its sheath is somewhat precarious. The last thing you want in a wilderness or survival situation is to loose your knife, or, maybe even worse, have it come loose from its scabbard in close proximity to vulnerable parts of one's body, potentially miles from medical help.)
All in all, it's a great knife, cuts very well; its edge geometry makes it great for most small-to-medium-knife tasks.
It is hard to get a better knife for the money.
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