For the Mora Fans...

SkunkWerX said:
If someone breaks a tang/handle on even a Mora Clipper then it is pure and simple abuse. period. (With the exclusion of a singular quality control issue on a specific knife).
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hikeeba said:
Despite the lack of a full tang, I believe the modern Mora knives are pretty tough, and could handle a fair amount of abuse that is outside their intended scope of practice. Unless I'm in a life or death situation, I will treat my Moras as cutting tools, and reserve the prying and chisling for more appropriate tools (BK3).
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You guys nailed it. I don't think any less of my Clipper after seeing that Xray.

There's a reason Mora's are inexpensive, y'know... but that doesn't mean cheap.
 
My oldest Mora is a stainless steel clipper. It's already made it through quite a few hunting seasons and butchered Hogs, deer, cows, chickens, turkey and rabbits plus a lot of fish and whittles a kajillion sticks and cut lots of rope and straps. No sign that it plans on giving up the ghost any time soon. If one is smarter than his knife, he will probably never have a problem with a Mora or any other knife. Pick the right tool for the job and use your head.;)
 
If anyone's interested there's a thread somewhere on the CS Roach Belly where someone helpfully (and with some difficulty) takes apart a CS Finn Bear to show the tang.
 
Let's face it, we mostly use our knives to prepare food, cut rope, game, whittle, chop and simple chores. Even in survival situations, we only use the cutting edge on a knife 99.99% of the time.

We don't realistically use our knives to pry-up oak trees or fight boars with.

MOST, yes, MOST knives will hold up to the typical abuse a real person will put it thru. We like full tangs because it does make the knife tougher -not that any of us will ever really stress our knives to the point of failure. Mora knives have already proven it's worth too many times to be questioned at this point.
 
Yesterday there was a thread about a guy who pulled the handle of his mora off after getting it stuck in a pice of wood he was batonning. It was the mora second from the bottom. Pictures were posted too. He slid the handle back on and was going to epoxy it when he got home.
 
FWIW I have only ever really abused knives in my own yard , I just do not do silly things when I am actually relying on a knife .

something deep down inside says dont do it ... I cannot really explain it more than that tho .
 
Even full tang knives are not infallible if the whole knife blank is'nt heat treated the same. I saw somewhere a picture of a knife blank that had the heat treat up to the ricasso and not the rest of the tang. that would necessarily make the tang vulnerable to breaking before the blade did. I agree with what others have said, common sense builds the best knives to carry.....I've only broken cheep Chinese crap never a knife worth carrying....
 
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