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Heavy Duty Mora
- Thread starter Jimbo
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And if you prefer Eriksson - catalog is here:
http://www.kjeriksson.se/index_ramar.html
The laplander blade is a pretty heavy duty leuko blade with excellent steel.
http://www.kjeriksson.se/index_ramar.html
The laplander blade is a pretty heavy duty leuko blade with excellent steel.
It's under products - hunting knives - then look for the c223
Let's see if this works..
http://www.frosts.se/bilder/jakt/C223/C223p.gif
Let's see if this works..
http://www.frosts.se/bilder/jakt/C223/C223p.gif
Jimbo,
I have one but I haven't used it yet. It's a pretty simple knife. Kinda rough. And the blade is very thin, like a flexible but heavy bandsaw blade. I can get the measurements to you later.
I can say, though, that this is definitely not a chopper for heavy woody material. The knife is actually pretty light.
I don't know how good it would be for chopping lighter vegetation, like twigs, small branches and briars. My guess is that it would probably be ok.
I haven't quite figured out what use to put it to. It should be a good slicer but the blade is a little rough and could use some polishing.
I guess I need to take a closer look at it.
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Hoodoo
I get some pleasure from finding a relentlessly peaceful use for a combative looking knife.
JKM
I have one but I haven't used it yet. It's a pretty simple knife. Kinda rough. And the blade is very thin, like a flexible but heavy bandsaw blade. I can get the measurements to you later.
I can say, though, that this is definitely not a chopper for heavy woody material. The knife is actually pretty light.
I don't know how good it would be for chopping lighter vegetation, like twigs, small branches and briars. My guess is that it would probably be ok.
I haven't quite figured out what use to put it to. It should be a good slicer but the blade is a little rough and could use some polishing.
I guess I need to take a closer look at it.
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Hoodoo
I get some pleasure from finding a relentlessly peaceful use for a combative looking knife.
JKM
I haven't got very far emailing Frost for dealers in Canada. Back to my hardware store to have them get in touch with their suppliers...
Ragnar has many models on his page and might bring in a specific model. There are two main manufacturers in Mora - Frosts and KJ Eriksson and you can get the product numbers and pictures from their catalogues.
http://www.ragweedforge.com/SwedishKnifeCatalog.html
The reason that I'm interested in this particular Frost knife is that I got a stub tang Eriksson bowie blade from Ragnar and a leuko blade. The bowie has proved to be surprisingly useful and I'm curious as to the Frost equivalent. The mora knives are thin and not choppers except for collecting browse. The exception is the 3.3mm leuko blade which carries a lot more weight due to its blade shape. With a baton though I've cut down many trees. A thin light knife will cut down a tree with surprising ease, and I'm still puzzled as to why they don't get stuck.
Ragnar has many models on his page and might bring in a specific model. There are two main manufacturers in Mora - Frosts and KJ Eriksson and you can get the product numbers and pictures from their catalogues.
http://www.ragweedforge.com/SwedishKnifeCatalog.html
The reason that I'm interested in this particular Frost knife is that I got a stub tang Eriksson bowie blade from Ragnar and a leuko blade. The bowie has proved to be surprisingly useful and I'm curious as to the Frost equivalent. The mora knives are thin and not choppers except for collecting browse. The exception is the 3.3mm leuko blade which carries a lot more weight due to its blade shape. With a baton though I've cut down many trees. A thin light knife will cut down a tree with surprising ease, and I'm still puzzled as to why they don't get stuck.
The blade is around 2mm thick or less. There is some variation in the thickness. I purchased mine from Blue Ox Knives. Cost for an 8 inch blade with a so-so leather sheath was $18 plus $2 s&h.
If you write Blue Ox Knives, they wil send you a couple sheets of paper listing the knives they carry. They have the red-handled Moras that run from $12 (4" blade) to $16 (6" blade). They have the Swedish Military knife for $14 and the Campknife above in different lengths from 4 1/2" ($8) to the 8" ($18-and it's actually around 8 3/4"). They also have a couple Kuusamon Uistin knives. By now, they may have a somewhat different inventory, I don't know.
Blue Ox Knives seem to be a low budget operation with a small selection, but good people. They advertise in the Backwoodsman.
There is something of a review of the campknife in the Nov/Dec 2000 issue of the Backwoodsman.
Here is what they wrote [I'm not sure but the way the article is written, the author, Dan Shectman, might also be the proprietor of Blue Ox, I dunno]: "Another knife we carried was one I want to field test as I was considering including it in our line at Blue Ox Knives. Like many of our knives at Blue Ox it is from Mora, Sweden and is made from excellent Swedish Hi-Carbon steel. The blade is 8-3/4 inches long of a modified Bowie configuration, as thick as a butcher knife and man is it sharp. The handle is a very comfortable and secure to use synthetic. This was especially important when we were elbow deep in fish guts and scales and 40 miles from the nearest help. A bad slip under those conditions could have been a disaster. The sheath is of high quality leather. The Mora Camp knife is no heavyweight chopper but it is an excellent knife for quartering game, cutting meat and hide and carving wood. At just $16 [note that the most current price I have is $18] plus $2 shipping it is a great knife for the survival pack, bugout bag or backcountry camp."
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Hoodoo
I get some pleasure from finding a relentlessly peaceful use for a combative looking knife.
JKM
If you write Blue Ox Knives, they wil send you a couple sheets of paper listing the knives they carry. They have the red-handled Moras that run from $12 (4" blade) to $16 (6" blade). They have the Swedish Military knife for $14 and the Campknife above in different lengths from 4 1/2" ($8) to the 8" ($18-and it's actually around 8 3/4"). They also have a couple Kuusamon Uistin knives. By now, they may have a somewhat different inventory, I don't know.
Blue Ox Knives seem to be a low budget operation with a small selection, but good people. They advertise in the Backwoodsman.
There is something of a review of the campknife in the Nov/Dec 2000 issue of the Backwoodsman.
Here is what they wrote [I'm not sure but the way the article is written, the author, Dan Shectman, might also be the proprietor of Blue Ox, I dunno]: "Another knife we carried was one I want to field test as I was considering including it in our line at Blue Ox Knives. Like many of our knives at Blue Ox it is from Mora, Sweden and is made from excellent Swedish Hi-Carbon steel. The blade is 8-3/4 inches long of a modified Bowie configuration, as thick as a butcher knife and man is it sharp. The handle is a very comfortable and secure to use synthetic. This was especially important when we were elbow deep in fish guts and scales and 40 miles from the nearest help. A bad slip under those conditions could have been a disaster. The sheath is of high quality leather. The Mora Camp knife is no heavyweight chopper but it is an excellent knife for quartering game, cutting meat and hide and carving wood. At just $16 [note that the most current price I have is $18] plus $2 shipping it is a great knife for the survival pack, bugout bag or backcountry camp."
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Hoodoo
I get some pleasure from finding a relentlessly peaceful use for a combative looking knife.
JKM
Thanks Hoodoo:
Interesting! A 9" knife that thin is something new. The Eriksson bowie style blade I like so much is 6 3/4" and 2.5mm. It would probably polish down to 2.3mm (thickness of regular 6" Mora) since it has a rough forge finish too. My cold Steel Red River and HB knives run about 2.4mm. In contrast my leuko blades run 3.3mm for the Eriksson and 3mm for Lauri.
I can see why you you were wondering where such a knife fits into the scheme of things. My first thought is that it would give a lot of sharp edge in a very light package - and a long knife is useful used two handed like a draw knife. My second thought is that unless people are experienced in swordsmanship such a knife really sharpened and used with a baton would drop a tree in a fraction of the time required by one of the heavy chopping knives.
Interesting! A 9" knife that thin is something new. The Eriksson bowie style blade I like so much is 6 3/4" and 2.5mm. It would probably polish down to 2.3mm (thickness of regular 6" Mora) since it has a rough forge finish too. My cold Steel Red River and HB knives run about 2.4mm. In contrast my leuko blades run 3.3mm for the Eriksson and 3mm for Lauri.
I can see why you you were wondering where such a knife fits into the scheme of things. My first thought is that it would give a lot of sharp edge in a very light package - and a long knife is useful used two handed like a draw knife. My second thought is that unless people are experienced in swordsmanship such a knife really sharpened and used with a baton would drop a tree in a fraction of the time required by one of the heavy chopping knives.