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Some precisions about Moras.
One.
12C27 has to be "over-razor" polished to give its best. It is not a steel intended for coarse sharpening, or it will loose its edge quicker than it could. Polish it really nice, pass it twice on a smooth steel, and you get the very winner cutter, provided it is a swedish treated 12C27. Only scandinavian knifemakers do treat it correctly (cryo-quench). You will get much better results with a swedish knife in 12c27 than for instance from a french Laguiole made from the same steel but poorly treated. 12C27 is no fancy but is a well thought compromise and comes from a particularly pure ore, which is important.
Two.
Eriksson uses long tangs, Frosts has very short tangs.
Frosts seems to be sharper NIB, but who cares ?
Both good knives however.
Three
NuclearBossHog, sorry, but I must second those who said you don't know what you're talking about. Learn first, speak second. And, I've got a spyderco Native III, VG10, like it very much, cuts undoubtly extremely well when well taken care of, but not better than a Mora. You will never be wrong with any knife which says "Made in Sweden" (includes Eka, Fallkniven etc...)
Take a look at the KJ Eriksson 746, I'm eagerly waiting for one.
Some precisions about Moras.
One.
12C27 has to be "over-razor" polished to give its best. It is not a steel intended for coarse sharpening, or it will loose its edge quicker than it could. Polish it really nice, pass it twice on a smooth steel, and you get the very winner cutter, provided it is a swedish treated 12C27. Only scandinavian knifemakers do treat it correctly (cryo-quench). You will get much better results with a swedish knife in 12c27 than for instance from a french Laguiole made from the same steel but poorly treated. 12C27 is no fancy but is a well thought compromise and comes from a particularly pure ore, which is important.
Two.
Eriksson uses long tangs, Frosts has very short tangs.
Frosts seems to be sharper NIB, but who cares ?
Both good knives however.
Three
NuclearBossHog, sorry, but I must second those who said you don't know what you're talking about. Learn first, speak second. And, I've got a spyderco Native III, VG10, like it very much, cuts undoubtly extremely well when well taken care of, but not better than a Mora. You will never be wrong with any knife which says "Made in Sweden" (includes Eka, Fallkniven etc...)
Take a look at the KJ Eriksson 746, I'm eagerly waiting for one.
Dijos, definitely not.
Frosts knivfabrik
Frosts knivfabrik
Cool pic, poussin!
I would not have any real concerns on the strength of the tang-handle attachment on either factories' knives. I dug out the blade in the earlier pic myself with a hot-knife. Even when half the handle was removed around the tang, I still couldn't pry the blade loose.
I would not have any real concerns on the strength of the tang-handle attachment on either factories' knives. I dug out the blade in the earlier pic myself with a hot-knife. Even when half the handle was removed around the tang, I still couldn't pry the blade loose.
I agree, and anyway a Mora is not intended for barbarian usage. Frosts is all right.
By the way, I did not know that they had protruding tang models.
The pic's credit goes to www.outdoors-magazine.com ; the administrator over-there is a fellow forumite of mine on another forum managed by Moine, who is known here :yawn: OK, it's definetly time to go to bed :yawn:
By the way, I did not know that they had protruding tang models.
The pic's credit goes to www.outdoors-magazine.com ; the administrator over-there is a fellow forumite of mine on another forum managed by Moine, who is known here :yawn: OK, it's definetly time to go to bed :yawn: