took out my old mora #1 with the laminated blade and unpainted birch handle that was my first quality fixed blade. i bought it almost a year ago now...funny how far i have come since then...
it is still as awesome as i remember it being, and actually i am wearing it on my belt today instead of the the bark river nebula. the nebula is a great knife, but is pretty heavy and doesn't seem to be as nimble in my hands. i remember when i first got it, the handle felt small and uncomfortable, but now it feels like shaking hands with an old friend...very nice and comforting and natural.
recently i smashed the handle on my plastic handled mora and replaced it with a simple poplar one (the plastic handle was very hard to get off, by the way). i sculpted the handle a bit to give it a more positive grip in my hand than the #1, but when i picked up the #1 and layed it on the stone to sharpen it, it feels so great and nimble...hard to describe but it is certainly a good thing :thumbup:
anyways, just wanted to reinforce the general opinion around this forum that moras are great and that they are entirely capable of many many things. the fact that they are dirt cheap helps alot too.
i need to buy one or two more of the #1, this one is showing its age and i am almost afraid to lose it or break it somehow after the sentimental attachment i have to it. this was my primary fixed blade for 8 months after all, it did alot of work for me.
anyways, on to the photos!
i used the rehandled one for almost all of the shaping on the spoon (split a block and roughed with axe, shaped and smoothed with knife, bowl carved out with a gouge), and i used both of them on the fuzz stick.
it is still as awesome as i remember it being, and actually i am wearing it on my belt today instead of the the bark river nebula. the nebula is a great knife, but is pretty heavy and doesn't seem to be as nimble in my hands. i remember when i first got it, the handle felt small and uncomfortable, but now it feels like shaking hands with an old friend...very nice and comforting and natural.
recently i smashed the handle on my plastic handled mora and replaced it with a simple poplar one (the plastic handle was very hard to get off, by the way). i sculpted the handle a bit to give it a more positive grip in my hand than the #1, but when i picked up the #1 and layed it on the stone to sharpen it, it feels so great and nimble...hard to describe but it is certainly a good thing :thumbup:
anyways, just wanted to reinforce the general opinion around this forum that moras are great and that they are entirely capable of many many things. the fact that they are dirt cheap helps alot too.
i need to buy one or two more of the #1, this one is showing its age and i am almost afraid to lose it or break it somehow after the sentimental attachment i have to it. this was my primary fixed blade for 8 months after all, it did alot of work for me.
anyways, on to the photos!
i used the rehandled one for almost all of the shaping on the spoon (split a block and roughed with axe, shaped and smoothed with knife, bowl carved out with a gouge), and i used both of them on the fuzz stick.
Honestly, I've had the same old mora just like it for the past 20 years, and its going just as good as the day I bought it. I got to love that knife so much, I went out and bought a spare just like it "just in case." So I do know where you're coming from. :thumbup:
