Photo of the new Mora Garberg full tang

Edit: Somehow my response didn't get saved until hours after I made it, at which point it was totally outdated.

I do like Dave Canterbury's justification of the price. I'm not sure what kind of skinning technology they have that's worth $100 extra for a leather sheath.
 
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It's nice seeing a full-tang fixie from Mora. I have a feeling this one will be a big seller.
 
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Nap said:
Edit: Somehow my response didn't get saved until hours after I made it, at which point it was totally outdated.

I do like Dave Canterbury's justification of the price. I'm not sure what kind of skinning technology they have that's worth $100 extra for a leather sheath.
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It thought he said the msrp for it was 99.99$ with the normal sheath, and $109.99 with the leather, but I could be wrong. That's just what it sounded like to me.
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
Yes, though I don't expect them to fly off the shelves like the Pro and Basic models did when they came out. :D
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when these hit the shelves I'll probably pick one up from you, especially if you have a modified flat ground option.
 
I know we're all balking at the price (myself included!) but I do have to admit, I'm really excited about this knife. What I'm particularly thrilled with is the fact that Morakniv seems to have listened to their customers. Full tang? Thicker? 510-esque handle? Non-crappy sheath? We've all been complaining about that stuff for years! We all loved it when Condor started doing this with the Bushlore and the Bushcraft basic in 2011, right?
 
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What steel did they use, why this has to be a mystery?
I don't know any other knife in 100$ price range that has vague "stainless steel" in description.
 
Veruschka said:
I know we're all balking at the price (myself included!) but I do have to admit, I'm really excited about this knife. What I'm particularly thrilled with is the fact that Morakniv seems to have listened to their customers. Full tang? Thicker? 510-esque handle? Non-crappy sheath? We've all been complaining about that stuff for years! We all loved it when Condor started doing this with the Bushlore and the Bushcraft basic in 2011, right?
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agree.
 
Veruschka said:
I know we're all balking at the price (myself included!) but I do have to admit, I'm really excited about this knife. What I'm particularly thrilled with is the fact that Morakniv seems to have listened to their customers. Full tang? Thicker? 510-esque handle? Non-crappy sheath? We've all been complaining about that stuff for years! We all loved it when Condor started doing this with the Bushlore and the Bushcraft basic in 2011, right?
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Its true, it is many of the things that people have asked for.

The difference is that the Bushlore and buscraft basic are about half the price :p.

And really, I don't think that anyone here expected the garberg to be as cheap as their "normal" knives. We all know it will take more to produce, and I think mentally I was hoping it would be 200-300% more expensive (~$30-40), when in reality it is 400-500% more expensive, which is what is making it seem so "overpriced".

Then again, the bushcraft black sells for ~$60 already, so I guess in that light, the garberg seems like a "better" deal. Then again, I'm not quite sure how the bushcraft black is so popular when it is so similar to their existing knives, but 4x the price.

Anyway, I think the knife will still be fairly popular, but more of a niche pick. If it was $30-40, I feel it would sell tremendously well.
 
Would be neat if they released a budget version of it with carbon steel, a simplified handle (wood maybe?) and a plain plastic sheath. It can compete with Condor instead of going after Becker and ESEE.
 
You know... I bashed it at first... and damn if I'm starting to think more and more about it now. Setting the name aside for a moment, it's a full tang knife, made by a European country with oodles of experience making knives, with fantastic geometry (if it's like other Moras) and great steel.
If I didn't already have a BK16 that fits the same exact role, I'd totally be thinking about this knife. I don't know if I would end up getting it over a BK16, or some the other knives in that price point, but it would definitely be in the running.
 
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MaximIsayev said:
Would be neat if they released a budget version of it with carbon steel, a simplified handle (wood maybe?) and a plain plastic sheath. It can compete with Condor instead of going after Becker and ESEE.
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That would be more of a winner IMHO; truer to the Mora's we all know and love already. ;):thumbup:
 
I'd be interested in a version simplified/cheaper handle option (like their normal blades), with the normal sheath, if the price came down.

And I want to be clear here.

I understand that this is a new thing for Mora, I understand that all things considered, the price here is pretty decent. I even like the knife.

I just hope that after it stops being a "new" thing, that the processes improve, and more variations are created that fall more in line with the pricing of their more well established knives. Thats all.
 
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That would be more of a winner IMHO; truer to the Mora's we all know and love already. ;):thumbup:
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If they can price it along the same lines as the Bushcraft Black I would buy half a dozen of them in a heartbeat. I'll suggest that on their FB page, they seem to be good at responding to people there, maybe they'll consider it.
 
MaximIsayev said:
If they can price it along the same lines as the Bushcraft Black I would buy half a dozen of them in a heartbeat. I'll suggest that on their FB page, they seem to be good at responding to people there, maybe they'll consider it.
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Yeah! That would work.

Everywhere I've seen the bushcraft black up here it seemed overpriced IMHO but I guess that is pretty much the going rate everywhere...
 
MaximIsayev said:
Would be neat if they released a budget version of it with carbon steel, a simplified handle (wood maybe?) and a plain plastic sheath. It can compete with Condor instead of going after Becker and ESEE.
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So basically a full tang carbon steel 510.
 
Remember that one of the big things about Mora that allows them to produce such high quality knives at such a low cost is automation. The downside of automation is that the tooling/equipment costs are VERY high, so the cost of the tooling has to be spread out over a very high volume of production in order to get the per-unit expense down to the range where it's really feasible, and Mora further leverages this by using the same molds for the grips and sheaths and the dies for blanking blades on multiple models, even further reducing the per-unit tooling costs. The Garberg is surely going to see much lower production (comparatively) since it's a more niche-targeted model, yet will still require similarly expensive tooling to mass produce it. As a result the per-unit cost of tooling is going to be higher and it's going to increase the sale price.
 
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