You have brain washed bro !!!
Repeat these words three times " Mora's are pants " now go throw them in your fishing tackle or tool box where they belong !!!!
I have said it a thousand times before but Mora's are decent cheap knives, nothing more, nothing less, I'd rather have a cheap Buck or Ka-Bar than a Mora and when it comes to comparing them with real quality blades there is no comparison !!!
If someone likes that style of blade then go get a Skookum or Koster bushcraft knife etc !!!:thumbup:
However if you are on a budget ( which I can quite understand as my funds are often limited as well ) then yeah a Mora will do but please don't be brainwashed into thinking they are the be all and end all !!!
Man I can hear the blood pressure building in the Mora club already !!!
Mostly agreed. And this is coming from someone who has most certainly used Moras more in his life than about 99 % of the other members posting in this forum.
Moras are great disposable beater use-it-and-throw-it-away knives for random use in the woods, at the yard and in construction work, but they don't make for quality primary user blades. Sure, they're a lot better than your finger nails or some $60 "tacticals", but they're still cheapos that simply don't have the cutting performance or the durability of better knives.
It's great to see Moras (and when I say Mora, I also mean "a knife that has been designed for performance in use instead of performance in looking threatening and cool, in other words, a knife actually designed to be a knife instead of a penis enlargement") getting some respect in a market dominated mostly by enormously awkward "cutting instruments" and folding "knives", but quite frankly, some people are hyping Moras up to being something which they were never meant to be, designed to be, claimed by the maker to be, or should never be trusted to be - and this is high quality knives. By all means, sell all your knives that aren't Moras - it's a free country. Just don't expect that you'll be left with quality knives, because that's not what's going to happen.
I'm not trolling, I'm not even trying to ruffle feathers. I'm just stating it like it is, and like everyone around here (here is "Scandinavia") knows it is (and this includes the folks who actually make the Moras). Moras are excellent knives
for their price. But are they actually high quality knives? Not in a million, trillion years, no. A lot of people are perhaps confused by the apparently high cutting efficiency of Moras as compared to many much more expensive knives - in most cases probably because they've gotten used to extremely thick, heavy and poorly designed knives designed more for show than go. Just because Moras cut better than extremely ill-designed and crappy pseudo-knife tacticals that cost five times more than the Mora doesn't mean the Mora is actually a quality knife. Even at its very best it is only decent. And that's the bottom line...
To clarify: where I disagree with Pitdog's post is his suggestion of Ka-Bar and Buck knives as Mora replacements. Most of the Ka-Bars and Bucks I've seen have been made well for the price, but the designs often leave much to be desired in terms of cutting effectiveness. Let's take the legendary USMC Ka-Bar, for example. That knife is one of the worst cutting tools ever to get popular - it doesn't cut worth a damn out of the box due to the geometry. If you just want to cut things, Moras beat that knife very clearly. But then, there's much in the knife world beyond Ka-Bars and Bucks...
