carbon steel mora

RescueRiley

RescueRiley

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Just ordered a carbon steel mora #137 from ragweed forge with the leather wax treated sheath, it looks like a pretty handi blade.....any thoughts?? also this will be one of my first carbon steel fixed blades...I'll probably patina it to help protect it but I'm new to carbon blades, what ype of maintenace do they require?? incidentally I also ordered an oppinel #7 to back it up.
 
You will not be sorry, as for maintenace, just keep it sharp and use it alot.
 
Great combo, if wipe the blade dry after use, and oil it now and then, you should be in pretty good shape for the maintenance. joe
 
don't worry about maintenance. i ordered a triflex with my orange 710 and always use the 710. the triflex never gets used, oiled, or sharpened and it's absolutely fine. i live about 10-15 miles from you, the same climate, so don't worry about it.
 
"thinking about adding a small axe or a cs trail hawk for a low cost trio"

Copy cat :) I am doing the same. SAK trekker, Mora, and trail hawk.

Later,
Scottman
 
carbon steel is not as delicate as some would have you belive.people have been using carbon steel around salt water for a few thousand years with out problems .wipe it down after use. add acouple drops of good oil like militec 1 or other gun oil and your good to go (mineral oil for use around food)
PS: I've often wondered what type of steel is used on the hull of modern war ships they seem to do ok in salt water for about fifty years with some sanding and some fresh paint once and awhile
 
i used gun bluing cream on my carbon steel Mora and my Becker companion they look great i like it better than patina its easy to do as well take and clean the blade with alcohol then wash it with hot water use the bluing cream let it sit wash it off after a hour rub it lightly with a fine steel wool re blue wait a couple hours wash off repeat if necessary then use a oil like olive or a cooking oil leave it overnite and its finished try it out
 
MIKE MACINTOSH said:
PS: I've often wondered what type of steel is used on the hull of modern war ships they seem to do ok in salt water for about fifty years with some sanding and some fresh paint once and awhile
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Metal hulled ships often use a sacrificial anode which helps with corrosion problems.
See wiki

"A sacrificial anode, or sacrificial rod, is a metallic anode used in a cathodic protection where it is intended to be dissolved to protect other metallic components.

In laymen's terms, it's a piece of readily corrodible metal attached (by either an electrically conductive solid or liquid) to the metal you wish to protect. This piece of metal corrodes first, and generally must dissolve nearly completely before the protected metal will corrode (hence the term "sacrificial").

More scientifically, a sacrificial anode can be defined as a metal that is more easily oxidized than the protected metal. Electrons are stripped from the anode and conducted to the protected metal, which, for this reason, is forced to become the cathode. As a result, the protected metal is prevented from corroding.

For example when zinc and iron are put together (in contact) in the presence of oxygen, the zinc and iron will lose electrons at the same time. However, as iron is less reactive than zinc, it tends to replace its own lost electrons with electrons from the zinc. Therefore, iron acts as a neutral atom and zinc as a cation (positive ion) and reacts with oxygen; the iron is "safe" until all of the zinc has corroded.

One example is the galvanic anode used in a cathodic protection system, where the intended purpose is to prevent corrosion of the protected metal (such as a ship's hull, an oil pipeline, or a hot-water heater's tank) by being less electronegative than the desired metal. Commonly used metals for such protective purposes are zinc, aluminum and magnesium.
Another example is the anode in an electroplating process, whereby the metal from the anode replaces the metal depleted from the plating solution as it is deposited on the cathode."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrificial_anode
 
yeah I'm gonna put the mora through it's paces but I feel like i'll be cheating on my f-1....
 
Yeah i read about the sacrificial anode thing in a material technology course i did a few years back. I personally haven't heard of it being used for things other than metal plating and hull protection. I wonder if this could have any knife related applications....hmmmmm
 
I love moras, i Just finished putting a handle on a carbon steel mora blade blank this weekend. When i get a few more coats of tung oil on the wood i'll finally get to play with it a bit.
:)
 
MIKE MACINTOSH said:
.... I've often wondered what type of steel is used on the hull of modern war ships they seem to do ok in salt water for about fifty years with some sanding and some fresh paint once and awhile
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It's low carbon steel, but it's pretty thick too. Zincs are used to control corrosion. The big gray boats with guns on them have lots of guys to take care of rust :)
 
Hey guy's I don't want to hi jack Rescue Riley's, post my point about the ship hull's was just to point out that carbon steel ,weather its high carbon or low will last as long as any other steel as long as you protect it,zink on the hull or a little oil on the knife blade, stainless is more forgiving ,but if you take care of your gear carbon will work around salt water as well as it does in the woods.as a side note if you cut meat or butcher game there is a small amount of salt in blood and meat that has no ill effect's on knife if cleaned after use. my opinion your's may vary
 
I've used cold gun blue on everything but guns. Took well to the Mora, but when I used it on a pair of Peerless blued handcuffs it just made it more subseptable to rusting.

Carbon Moras are fine tools.
 
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