mora abuse pic heavy

Sweet pics. I knew Moras were tough, but I never thought to try and baton with one. Maybe I will try.. :D
 
Nice photos. I've batoned with plastic handled Mora's for years. They hold up great.
 
Good work, I hope this shows that batoning really isn''t abusing a knife. Love to see the mora's holding their own.
 
Nice pics. You really did baton the heck out of it. Ever think about making a wood wedge and hammering that in, instead.

I rreally love Moras. If I had any sense I would stop buying knives and stick with using mine. But say la ve!

If you are looking for a Mora on steroids...try the skookum. What a glorious blade!
 
I use wooden edges allot actually, I was more doing this just to prove it could be done, as per a conversation in the chat room the other night... I'd Love a Skookum boy.
 
Actually I was just thinking today. My mora #1 takes more abuse than any knife I own. Basically whenever I'm about to do something with one of my knives and a little light bulb pops in my head - "now Ken, do you think that is a really good idea to do with your $150 custom knife". I think, "no" and then grab the mora to do it. Today I was really abusing the hell out of the tip of my mora, gouging out a chunk of the top of my walking stick so I can embed a button compass in there. I was just prying all to hell on the tip and it held no problem

Was I willing to do that with the tip of my other blades. Nope. Did the mora #1 pass - yeah - with flying colours. Sometimes you just have to have a 'giver 'er hell' knife. My mora #1 suits that purpose for me well. Someday I'll break. Undoubtably, but I keep checking off the things that should'a but didn't break it!
 
Since it isn't a $400 prybar with G10 stealth technology grips, it obviously can't be able to do that! ;)
 
CWL said:
Since it isn't a $400 prybar with G10 stealth technology grips, it obviously can't be able to do that! ;)
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Seeing as I have snapped 2 in half doing similar abuse, to me it cant. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Its a light use blade only and cant be trusted consistently to perform under abuse.

They are good value for the money but not for hard use.

You need not spend $400 for a decent blade you can pound the hell out of $50-$100 should be fine.

Skam
 
I think that a good point was brought up about skills.
As a new member to the board, I see a lot of posts by people asking for a good cheap outdoor survival knife. But then I think to myself, do they even know what to do with it? Do they know the skills like batoning and such to actually make use of a good knife. I think that the skills part is actually much more important than the tool is some respects. An experienced outdoorsman could probably do more with a slipjoint than a newbie could with a $400 Busse.

That said, I am definitely still learning,but the learning process seems to come slow as there is no great place to find all of the info on what to do with a good sturdy knife. There is plenty of talk about the hardware, but without the knowledge of what to do with it it is almost useless. It's like giving a guy off the street all the tools necessary to build a house and then telling him to go and build it without telling him what to do with the tools. If he doesn't know how to use a hammer or a saw, how is he going to finish the house?

Any way, I think that I will have to pick up a mora, I hear lots of good stuff about them.
 
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