Mora or Condor?

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Loki

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Looking at comparing a Mora Companion Robust to a Condor Bushlore. Both are carbon steel 1/8th inch thick blades. Mora a stick tang and Condor a full tang. I guess I'm looking for a all around bushcraft blade but no intent on batoning. Any comments or recommendations would be helpful. Thanks!
 
Can't speak to the models specifically but I've had better consistancy with mora. The condors I've had have been bent, handles left rough except one, and the edges uneven. Condors have nicer sheaths though.
 
I don't have a bushlore, but I do own a robust carbon, and it rocks. It does have a tendency to roll and micro chip when whittling and shaving wood, but it is very easy to touch up. I think any sheath is better than the stock sheath it comes with. I don't think there is a better knife in the $15 dollar range IMHO.

I'd take the handles into consideration. The robust has a large, comfortable rubber handle, where as the bushlore has a wooden handle. I guess your decision depends on what kind of work your going to be doing and your handle preference. I think the steel is probably neck and neck, for the most part. Just my $.02.
 
Mora all the way. The steel on the bushlore is terrible. After using it just a couple of times it already has many dents on the edge... Never had that problem with my mora knives.
The condor bushlore looks nice but doesn't performs as wel las a Mora.
 
Go Mora or go home. I have used a 4" companion to carve a chicken before. Liked it so much I got an 8" stainless Mora for use as a kitchen slicer. I have been unimpressed with my two Condors and they are gathering dust under the bed.
 
Mora as they are ready out of the box. The condors I have required to much work to make them user friendly. they are a good bargain if you have the time to invest in them.
 
RWT said:
Mora as they are ready out of the box. The condors I have required to much work to make them user friendly. they are a good bargain if you have the time to invest in them.
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Absolutely... and the mora is as cheap but good to go from the box... plus it will last you a long time.
I like the mora companion and the mora bushcraft force.
 
For an all round bushcraft knife, if you have no intent on batoning, then the Mora Companion
You will not even need extra thickness of the Robust model
Decide on if you want easier to care SS or a little more maintence carbon

And for less than $15 you will have a knife that will last you years
 
I'm gonna' have to disagree on Condors having crappy steel or the handles being left rough, and a bent blade would be a case where warranty would cover it. I own tons of Condors and beat them mercilessly and my edges have been fine, but it's important to not that the Bushlore shouldn't be converted to a fully zeroed scandi at the factory grind angle--the primary grind is too shallow (even more shallow than on the Mora Robust) so the edge needs microbevel established to stabilize it. For a knife you have zero intent on batoning, however, just go with a Companion like Neeman said. The extra thickness of the Robust is not needed unless you plan on batoning or prying with it.
 
The Condor Bushlore is a brutally solid knife for the price point
Be prepared to put some effort getting it as sharp as you want

The Moras are absurdly half the price
And come cutting sharp, but treat it well
 
Mora would be my choice as well. Not only over Condor, but over quite a few other brands as well.
Besides, you cant go wrong for the price.
 
I get to be the first to say it: Both. For the prices of both, get one of each. I have both, and like both equally. BTW, the quality of my Bushlore is superb. Sharp as snot great non goofy looking plastic phallic looking sheath. Nice, thick leather. But I always love my Moras, too (except the dumb ugly sheath.)
 
I owned both, and like they said Mora is sharp out the box,
price is about half of Condor, about Condor I had to regrind or it
would not even slice cardboard out of the box, but after
regrind to change the bevel angle and convex , it cut like laser.
 
AS a mora lover, I must confess it is a bit dinky for some tasks. Never broke one but it's hard to really enjoy using what feels like a paring knife from the kitchen drawer. (albeit a rather sharp one.) It may just be I am pretty much not a fan of scandi's, as I realized recently. I enjoy tinkering with all my knives more or less so getting a condor to tweak would be a fun project for me, not a chore.
 
Tweaking the Condor was a reprofiling of the edge using DMT Extra Course to Extra Fine
Well worth the time and effort
(if you have the know how and the time and effort)
 
Also, for those that aren't aware, I can do Special Grade service on the Bushlores I carry to tune up the edge so it's ready to go out of the box. :)
 
I bought a Condor Kephart "second" from 42Blades...it's a winner.
He's also sold me an assortment of Moras...they make great bait for luring people into prepping and woodland adventures.
The Robust is well...very robust and I have yet to be hampered by the thicker blade.
 
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