Frosts Mora Knife???

Yeah, I'm making my own ;)

Check out this link... 20 minutes, STITCH FREE, good looking leather sheaths... All you need to make them is a piece of leather and the knife that will fit in the sheath ;)

Almost too cool to be true. The guy who first thought of that is my hero.

http://www.primitiveways.com/pt-knifesheath.html

Cheers,

David
 
I took the sheath for my old red handed laminated knife, cut off the belt loop and made a leather sheath around it. Now i have a leather sheath with a plastic liner.
 
Moine -- that link is TOO COOL! Thanks :cool:

And thanks, too, Uitlander, to the link to Eric's page; shoulda known and checked there before!
 
jackknife said:
I took the sheath for my old red handed laminated knife, cut off the belt loop and made a leather sheath around it. Now i have a leather sheath with a plastic liner.
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That's a good idea.
I found that the plastic sheaths on the wood handled Erikssons seem to do a better job at retaining the knife than the Frosts sheaths, but I recently purchased an Eriksson # 2 from Ragweed Forge and it came with a Frosts style plastic sheath :confused: Go figure.
 
Moine said:
Pick a KJ Eriksson, not a Laminated Frosts. Laminated ones tend to bend (permanently) under stress. I hate that, personally... You can always beat them back to true (or close), but I still hate that.

Cheers,

David
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Very True! A lot of what we do with knives here would be considered abuse by most Scandanavians! They think knives are for cutting, axes are for chopping, saws are for sawing and pry bars are for prying.

The surprising thing is how well the Mora's stand up to batonning, even the cheapest red wooden handled ones.

Probably closer to what most Americans would consider "all purpose" would br the Finnish Leukeu, full tang, longer broader blades. Makes sense when you think of it because these are the knives, basically a big heavy duty butcher knife (along with a puukko, usually used by the Saami people (Laplanders), Northern herders and woodland dwellers would be expected to develop a different tool than a coastal Farming/Fishing people would.

Still to a great extent, they both handle each others roles rather well.

The laminated blades are basicly used for cutting fish, cordage and for wood carving. They do take and hold one h__l of an edge.
 
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