mora clipper

RescueRiley

RescueRiley

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I used to hear alot more talk about these before the xray pic came out that showed the only have half a tang...anybody use these frequently?? I've had a couple in the past and ended up giving them away to knifeless friends before a survival course...despite the half tang the blade is mounted securely to the handle...can't imagine it breaking under normal use.....anyone have a varying experience?
 
I have owned both SS and carbon. I liked them. My favorite is the 510, so the clippers went to friends and family.

My brother used his on a Alaskan fishing trip. His first reaction was "what in the hell is this". After the trip he now carries it around his neck on all fly fishing trips. I believe he went to Ragweedforge and bought several more. I have never had a Clipper break, and I know my Brother has used his a lot. No problems.

Good knives...... but I love the 510, and thats what gets used most.


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just ordered the 510 from ragwed today along with pukko yesterday I just have to convince my wife that all the charge on the card or christmas presents....LOL, I couldn't find the 510 on the mora of sweden website so I shot them an email to make sure they are still in production... I'll post the results when I get them.
 
They strike me as extremely durable. That plastic is tough. I suspect it would stand up to more abuse than the wooden-handled versions, for example. (It's been a while since I saw the X-ray picture referred-to above, but isn't the tang on the Clippers kind of wide, while the tang on the wooden ones is thinner?) I would easily imagine the Clipper withstanding the supposed Mors Kochanski "pound-it-into-a-tree-and-stand-on-the-handle" test. But I've never done this.
 
the clipper tang is extremely wide but only goes halfway though the handle but it seem like it's stuck in there real good..
 
hi,I took it one step further than x-ray last night,dremel,I had to basicly chop it into pcs,well construted is an understatement!Its going to be re-handled.Yes its a half tang,but 1/2 + inch wide.Had to use pliers for grip to peel the rubber off.Funny this thread was posted today.
 
I haven't heard back from the moras of sweden people yet but I sent the same question to Ragnar over at ragweed, He didn't seem to think they discontiued it as he just got a big shipment of them the other day....
 
dulledge2 said:
i believe bensbackwoods.com has them along with many other moras.
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I just received a 521 from there a couple of days ago. Great knife and a good sight too. They sell fire steel blanks too, which I got two of, and I picked up an Opinel number 7 too. Two knives, and two fire steels for 30 bucks with shipping. I'll be doing business with them again.
 
I have 3 Clippers and they are my favorite mora the handle fits me perfectly and the sheath is good cause you can clip it anywhere great when your wearing shorts at the lake or backyard bbq. Works great in the kitchen or out in the woods and theres a handle color for everybody I like the orange handle and sheath combo so if I set it down outside it wont get lost like the green one can and has.
 
Just got back from deer camp where I used my SS Clipper to baton about 10 1X2 oak splits maybe 18" long, and a good batch of pitchwood, and also whittled a large pile of cedar curls and some oak curls as well. No damage at all, and it still shaves nicely. The oak was pretty clear but had a few small knots which were pounded through with no problem. IMO the blade would fail before the handle would let go. I am not a baton guy by design, but it did work just fine. My dad and nephew did look at me funny when I laid my hatchet beside the axe and started whacking my knife through the wood, but were duly impressed by my $10 knife.

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Just heard back from moras of sweden the y said the 510 is still in production but it not a big seller people seem to prefer the 521 with the guard and the clipper...I prefer the 51- to 521 bexaus I feel a guardless knife allows you to be more details when doing woodwork, I also prefer it to the clipper as the 510 has a through tang...I'm going to send than an email to this effect, it'd be nice if everyone does the same so that we can help keep this awesome knife available to the public.
 
RescueRiley said:
Just heard back from moras of sweden the y said the 510 is still in production but it not a big seller people seem to prefer the 521 with the guard and the clipper...I prefer the 51- to 521 bexaus I feel a guardless knife allows you to be more details when doing woodwork, I also prefer it to the clipper as the 510 has a through tang...I'm going to send than an email to this effect, it'd be nice if everyone does the same so that we can help keep this awesome knife available to the public.
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I wasn't sure if I'd like the guard on the 521 or not, but I figured if I didn't like it I could always cut it off. The thing thing that made me choose the 521 was the longer blade length. I think it's only a half inch or something like that, so it's not actually too big of a difference, but ultimately that's what made up my mind.
 
RescueRiley said:
the clipper tang is extremely wide but only goes halfway though the handle but it seem like it's stuck in there real good..
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A few years ago I decieded to destroy one deliberatly to see how rugged they were. It was very surprising!

I clamped the blade of a plastic handle Frosts in a vise about halfway. Putting a metal pipe over the handle for leverage I started to bend the knife down. It took a surprising amount of torque to bend it, and when it got to 90 degrees it snapped right off at the vise jaws. That left me with half a blade.

Not content, I again put what was left in the vise and with the metal pipe started to bend it down again. I was trying to see how strong the plastic was. Putting alot more force on the 2 inches of blade left than you could put by hand, again the blade stub broke at almost 45 degrees clean with the vise jaws.

The tang NEVER let go from the molded handle, and I don't think you are going to run into ANYTHING in the woods that will break a mora knife. Unless you run in to a wild bench vise. Even after I ground off half the plastic handle, I had to fight with the tang clamped in a pair of visegrips. It's stuck in there really good. These are some VERY rugged little knives that are engineered to take alot of abuse for very little money. They are as good a bushcraft knife as you will get without going for an out and out custom.

With a mora and a hatchet, I can't think of any survival situation in the real world that it would be inadequet for. Jerry Ahern novels and mall ninja fantacys exepted. With a thin bladed butcher knife and a tomahawk the mountain men survived harsh Rocky Mountain winters just fine.

Too many people get too hung up on full tang vs narrow tang vs half tang. Think of this- the old broadswords of the crusaders were of the narrow rat tail tang, and the famed samuri swords were actually a half to 3/4 tang held on by a simple wooden peg that could be removed to take the handle off for cleaning under it. They did'nt have much, if any, more tang than a mora!

Bottom line-under heavy abuse the blade will break before the tang/handle gives out, and you'll have to deliberatly abuse it enough to break a blade.
 
Let's ask it this way: has anyone ever broken the handle on a Clipper? (I mean, outside the context of a destruction test.)

Anyone ever known anyone who's broken one?
 
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