#165465 - 01/28/09 02:18 PM
Re: Mora Knives
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 02/09/01
Posts: 3824
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My primary kit knife is a F1 Fallkniven too. The painted wood handle moras are still sold. I took one apart after it was ruined ( nephew with an electric kitchen sharpening monstrosity. The rattail tang sort of floats in a large hollow in the handle secured in the back by a crush fit roller pin and up front by the sheet metal ferrule. And there are large gaps into which water and crud can flood in. They were all of $8 when I bought several. I've given some to hiking companions who never owned a knife, freaked seeing me with one, freaked again when some small wreck occured and the knife resolved things and wanted a knife NOW. Always encourage new converts. One wound up lost in horse tack and emerged rusty. i cleaned it up and it works fine. 2 remain in my secondary kits, rehoned to even better edges, oiled and sitting in those wretched sheaths that actually work.
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#165495 - 01/28/09 06:45 PM
Re: Mora Knives
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"Be Prepared"
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Registered: 06/26/04
Posts: 2209
Loc: NE Wisconsin
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I bought my first Mora from a Pamida store (think of a small Target or Walmart) in NW Iowa in about 1986 or so. I bought it as a cheap knife to use for digging wild plants out of the ground. I was taking a botany course at the time.
It had a black plastic handle and the classic cheap plastic sheath, and no matter how much I abused it, with a little sharpening it would get really REALLY sharp.
It wasn't until I read Cody Lundin's book and found ragweedforge.com mabye 20 years later that I realized that ugly cheap knife was a Mora.
Since then I've purchased quite a few Mora's from ragweedforge.com for different uses. The first one purchased after reading 98.6 degrees was the #137 with the hot-waxed leather sheath.
My favorites are the so-called "Modern Mora Knives from KJ Eriksson" that have numbers like 746 and 748. I like the feel of the handles. These days I mostly use them as car camping kitchen knives. I bought a set of 746, 748, and 749 (4", 5.75", and 8" SS blades) for my cook tub (used for car-based tent camping) and another set for my travel trailer. The plastic sheaths work great for camp kitchen use where a fancy robust knife is simply not needed and an un-sheathed knife is asking for trouble.
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#165504 - 01/28/09 07:41 PM
Re: Mora Knives
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Old Hand
Registered: 03/19/05
Posts: 1181
Loc: Channeled Scablands
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Maybe you'all can tell me more about a knife I bought at REI in 1974. I was called a "Swedish Surfman's Hunting Knife". It is stainless steel blade with a wood, paring knife shaped handle and a drop point. Came with an embossed leather sheath with a button hole on the belt loop so you could button it to your overalls like the Swede's like to do. I has been a very durable knife, but I have never seen one like it since.
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#165511 - 01/28/09 08:44 PM
Re: Mora Knives
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Jakam
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Desperado, I have that exact model, green plastic handle with the green plastic sheath, from SG, based on a recommendation on another forum.
It is, as stated, very sharp right out of the packaging, and obviously good steel. Seems to me it's cheap because that handle and sheath are bottom rung. It has been suggested that it be bought for the blade, the plastic removed and tossed, and new handle sheath created/bought.
But I keep it as is, if (or when) the handle does break, I'll deal with it then.
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#165518 - 01/28/09 08:59 PM
Re: Mora Knives
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 12/18/08
Posts: 1534
Loc: Muskoka
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I have only had one sheath for a Mora break and that was from the knife getting hammered into it so hard that it split. I have misplaced a few of them though. They are not really hard to make and for the wood handled knives a piece of thin wall water supply pipe (plastic) makes a workable sheath.
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#165521 - 01/28/09 09:02 PM
Re: Mora Knives
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Jakam
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That's what I was thinkin', and a sheath would be pretty much any standard 7 incher.
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#165523 - 01/28/09 09:22 PM
Re: Mora Knives
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Crazy Canuck
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Registered: 02/03/07
Posts: 3222
Loc: Alberta, Canada
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Okay, Would it be a cost effective/quality piece of equipment for the multiple BOB's everyone and their brother wants me to make all of the sudden? IMO: yes. I would take a Mora Clipper (or two, they're light and inexpensive) into the bush any time. But I don't abuse knives. As others have said, they're a cutting tool, not a prybar. If in doubt, add a cheap flat prybar or oversize flat screwdriver to the kit.
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#165531 - 01/28/09 10:36 PM
Re: Mora Knives
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Old Hand
Registered: 03/19/05
Posts: 1181
Loc: Channeled Scablands
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Okay, Would it be a cost effective/quality piece of equipment for the multiple BOB's everyone and their brother wants me to make all of the sudden? IMO: yes. I would take a Mora Clipper (or two, they're light and inexpensive) into the bush any time. But I don't abuse knives. As others have said, they're a cutting tool, not a prybar. If in doubt, add a cheap flat prybar or oversize flat screwdriver to the kit. Chisel Version too, (though not a prybar) http://www.ragweedforge.com/712.jpg
Edited by clearwater (01/28/09 10:36 PM)
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