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udtjim

udtjim

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With the wooden handled Mora Knives. I mean like handle coming off or breaking? I have mostly the plastic and rubber gripped mora's because they fit my hand better that all but the biggest Mora Wooden handles The wooden handle on the No. 1 is pretty small for me with wrapping are somehow make them tacky.

BTW who know what sell they actually use in their blades.
 
I've never had a problem with any mora kife breaking...I'm typically a little more careful with them than my "true" full tang knives" but wooden handle moras are great..the one thing I worry about is the small gaps at the top of the handle around the stick tang... I could envision that getting clogged with food and animal juices and becoming a breeding ground for bacteria.. although that just might be my paranoid nature. as far as stee goes the blades are 1095 I believe unless its a Laminated model.
 
I have a wood handle number 1, and I have used it very hard. It's my beater knife since they are only 10 bucks. When I first got it, I sanded the red paint off the handle and soaked it in linseed oil after epoxying up the blade'bolster gaps.

Several years now and no problems.
 
As I understand it the stainless ones are 12C27 so composition wise not too dissimilar to 440A. With a hardness around 57/58 all up you're looking at something one rung up from a generic cheapo kitchen knife. Certainly the Craftline series dropped to 57 seems to be putting an accent on toughness and corrosion resistance over other qualities. I believe most of the carbon blades are 1095 and are hardened up a couple of points more. Their carving knives differ in that they are laminated and put out at a hardness 60-62.
 
I have only ever had the wooden handled ones...it was only in the last year or two I found out they had anything with a plastic handle.

I have had literally dozens of the different red wooden handled moras. I give them away on a pretty regular basis to people that I think need a knife. I've also had a few of the laminated steel ones and I think in the future that's all I'm buying. They are nicer knives in my opinion and so far the ones I've had have been a little harder steel.

Anyway I've never broken a wood handle. Somewhere on here there is a thread where I batonned a mora through something like twenty five feet of lead pipe with a sledgehammer just to see if it would survive. I intentionally gave it some hard sideways jams and hits and it was fine.

Here's one pic from the series, you can see the sledge I was beating on it with behind the vise there.

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udtjim said:
With the wooden handled Mora Knives. I mean like handle coming off or breaking? I have mostly the plastic and rubber gripped mora's because they fit my hand better that all but the biggest Mora Wooden handles The wooden handle on the No. 1 is pretty small for me with wrapping are somehow make them tacky.

BTW who know what sell they actually use in their blades.
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No problems to report over here. :thumbup:

Someone needs to do a wood batoning destruction test on a mora #1.
 
Thanks guys. My oldest Mora ia a No-1 in Laminated steel. It's skinned and dressed a lot of deer.:thumbup:
 
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