Got My First Mora! WOW!

I have not destroyed any yet. They are definately worth the money, really good handle and such.

They will not break unless you try to baton it through a brick och use it as a prybar or do anything not "knifely" to it. It is a piece of Sandvik carbon steel in a piece of plastic. A really really good user knife.

If I hadnt been a Fallkniven fanatic I guess it would be my favourite. The green handled GK is more in my taste than the tooth pick like orange one.

Both are great knives for people who doesnt really "need" an F1.
 
"Making a kydex sheath would be strange, the flat kydex piece alone is worth more than the knife itself."Nodh

That's the same concept as buying an expensive sheath for a Tramontina Machete in Brazil. The sheath will cost 3 or 4x the price of the machete but it will outlast many blades. If you like the knife and plan to wear out several of the same model it makes perfect sense to upgrade the sheath.

There just isn't an American made counterpart to the Mora. I look at them like the Bic lighter. For 90% of your fire lighting needs the Bic will do a better job than most of the firegadgets we carry. If Mora knives cost $2.50 they would be treated as disposables here as well. At $10+ they get treated as "Users and Abusers", a class of knives that can be easily outclassed by throwing more cash at the concept. It's like the 80/20 rule, you get 80% of the performance with the first 20% of the investment. To get that additional 20% of performance you have to lay out the other 80%.

I normally use 2 "bushcraft" knives, a $10 Mora (780?) Triflex Craftsman and a $200 Skookum Bush Tool. Neither of them has disappointed me yet. Mac
 
nodh said:
I dont get it. Yes the Mora knives are good knives for the price. In Sweden they cost from 15 SEK (about 2,5 USD) and up ending with the Mora 2000 for about 135 SEK or 20 USD. But whay have they been praised beyond belief?
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Sort of the same thing Pict said...

We have $2 disposable cutting tools here in the US, but yours (Moras) are actually *good*.

It's totally shocking to us when something *intended* to be cheap is also carefully and well designed, and doesn't suck. Possibly why IKEA is so popular. Oh yes, and Bic lighters.
 
Here in Norway a mora knife may cost as much as 10 sigarettes, for the least expencive.
It is a secret among the knife-nuts they hold good quality an can be re-sarpened with great results. I have a work-knife mora clipper that really start to show a multiple-resharpening look. A bit thinner and shorter, but work great.
I simply make leather sheats for them when I want too.

The hultafors knives is good, I have used and sharpened a couple of those.
timann
 
You've gone and done it now bro !

Next you'll be buying one of these sheaths....
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Then you'll be needing one of these Mora's for camp use, and the list goes on !!!!!
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Blood Grooves, if you want a more secure sheath, and a lanyard hole, give the 780 triflex a shot, sheath is still cheap feeling, but is pretty secure I added a para cord belt loop and it works great now.
 
Welcome and congrats to the world of Moras! For the price of a lower-end Busse, you can get ~11 Moras and shipping!

Get your next Moras from Ragnar over at Ragweedforge.com, he ships every order for a flat fee of $6!

As for lanyard holes, you can try using a small eyelet screw into the butt of the knife. It's ugly, but it's easy.
 
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