Any Mora Experts in The House ??

be prepared for the can of worms you just opened up....perhaps, might be best to do a lil' search on "puukko" first....

respectfully,
 
Hey Dan...

Yikes! Really....

What about them ??
I'm going to search now..

ttyle

Eric....
 
Normark said:
Anyone here know enough about Moras as to give a little history about the term Mora and Pukka (SP?),, what it means,,is it a style of knife like a "Bowie".
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Not an expert -

Puukkos are from Finland

Mora is a place in Sweden where the knives originally came from - the well known names are Frosts (not to be confused with Frost Knives the importers of cheap knives) and KJ Eriksson.

Here's a thread:

Fiskars Puukko

in there member Liten seems to be knowledgable, and gave a couple of links to Moras, repeated here:

http://www.frosts.se
http://www.kjeriksson.se

Unfortunatly the KJ Eriksson site is only available in Swedish, but Ragweedforge has some Eriksson knives.

Http://www.ragweedforge.com/SwedishKnifeCatalog.html

This RagweedForge page has some more informational links at the bottom.

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Hi I deal in both Eriksson and Frosts
This is the information as I have it. moras are a family or style of knife if you would have it they are typically an a barreled shaped wooden handle commonly coloured red. they are the style that has been typically identified as the type of knife to come from sweden in history the town that they are named after is called Mora and the two remaining main producers of this style of knife are Eriksson and Frosts. If I remember correctly I read some where that the founder of Eriksson first worked for Frosts.

Since the original folk style knives the companies have also come up with other models using the same craftmenship but perhaps a different metal or handling style with slight next to no variations in the blades.

A for Puukkos and Moras the style of craftmenship is still scandinavian and by no means do i mean to sound what I am saying is the bible but the Moras are swedish and I believe Puukos are Finnish. Beside that a noticable difference can be seen in blade profile with the puukkos having a staight spine and Moras bearing a clip point. I have examples of Moras on my site.

http://home.cogeco.ca/~aelias/
 
Hey Guys...

Thanks for the info....

Although I like the "Moras", the Puukkos have yet to grow on me...
I have one knife I guess is a Puukko, and that would be the Falkniven HI given to me by Peter of Fallkniven...

It's a Great knife,,a very sharp,,very stout hunting knife... It gets used once and awhile.. I guess I should start paying a little more attention to it...

Thanks again..

Eric....
 
I have some Eriksson Moras from Ragweed Forge. They are the best buy in the world of knives that I have found yet. The red handled one is $9, and practically anyone (myself included) can EASILY get a razor edge on this thing, thanks to the large bevel. That high carbon steel keeps it's edge very well also. Very well designed knife!
 
Normark said:
I have one knife I guess is a Puukko, and that would be the Falkniven HI given to me by Peter of Fallkniven...
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Nope -

Fallknivens are Swedish.

Puukko is a traditional Finnish knife.

I do realize that Scandiavian knives do sometimes look alike and the Swedes do make some knives that definitely have more than a passing resemblance to Puukkos - and I am just as guilty of mistaking a Mora for a "Puukko". :o

However this might be analogous to
a Swede being told they are Finnish -
and a bit closer to home -
Benchmades with circular holes being repeatedly called Spydercos?


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They are all Scandinavian knives, just coming from different parts of Scandinavia. There are some "local" differences in the styles, but they all closely resemble one another. Ragwweed Forge has a broad selection.

Paul
 
I'm finnish so I know something about Mora knives. Some of the Mora models is more knives than puukko's with clip points but many models can be said to be puukkos allthough puukko means finnish type of knives. Word puukko comes from finland but many other scandinavian knives are very similar to it.Moraknives is used a lot in Finland they are very cheap about 3-4$ and you can get them to be sharp and they are sold almost every store in Finland. I'm interested. What do you think about finnish puukkos? because here in Finland it is the only kind of a knife many use.
 
I can't say too much but in the dim dark ages of my past - I once owned a "Mora" birch handled knife that was super - I almost cried when I lost it! The other scandinavian knife I love is the Finnish "Normark" fillet knifes that also have birch handles - "Marttinni" or some variant on my spelling of the name appears scribed on the blades - These are about as good as it gets for a fillet knife in my opinion! The work great in the kitchen too! The joy is in the use - and If memory is right about the "Mora" and experience is right about the "Normark" they are a pleasure to use. and easy to maintain.
 
Actually both companies Eriksson and Frosts make excellent fillet knives Frosts actually produces commercial fisshery knives which are prety much the west coast standard in B.C. fisheries.
 
The puuko design is Finnish and reaches back into prehistoric times. Remember the Finns are a linguistically separate people from other Scandinavians as the Aryans apparantly never conquered them. Hence their traditional knife has kept a lot of home-grown uniqueness.

Chris
 
The puukko is diffeent from the knives of the rest of Scandinavia mainly in the way they are ground. At least the modern ones are.

Paul
 
PWork said:
The puukko is diffeent from the knives of the rest of Scandinavia mainly in the way they are ground. At least the modern ones are.

Paul
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I have several puukkos and several "moras" (norwegian knives) and there are no difference in the way they are ground. The handle shape of the puukko you can find in several old norwegian ( and probably swedish) knives too.
I believe the only real difference is in the name.

And Chris, what have the Aryans given to the swedish and norwegian knives that finnish knives don`t have, or vice verca?

Tor
 
Although the typical Mora and Puuko knives are relatively cheap when compared to most other knives, they are for experienced knife users.

If you compare their cutting ability to almost any other higher priced knife, you may end up asking yourself why you spent so much on the other knife.

They, along with Opinels, are some of the best performing knives in the world! They also happend to be the least expensive!

Collecter
 
Wotan said:
I have several puukkos and several "moras" (norwegian knives) and there are no difference in the way they are ground. The handle shape of the puukko you can find in several old norwegian ( and probably swedish) knives too.
I believe the only real difference is in the name.

And Chris, what have the Aryans given to the swedish and norwegian knives that finnish knives don`t have, or vice verca?

Tor
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I stand corrected. The few finnish knives that I have seen were ground much higher than any of the Norwegian or Swedish knives I've seen.

Paul
 
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