Pit impressed with Mora !!!!

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People who have been on here a while will know that I often have cheap cracks at Mora's. Truth be told Pit Jr and myself do often use a Mora for cutting up fish and stuff but I have never really tried it when it's been real sharp !
Anyways I thought that I would get the Mora shaving sharp and then compare it to a couple of my other bushcraft type blades.
I tested them all at various wood whittling tasks and I have to be honest and say that I was really impressed with the little Mora:eek:!!! My Koster Nessie still kicked it's butt, although not by much, but it out cut my Temperance !
Anyway here are pics of the knives next to the fuzz sticks they made.....
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So I guess I'm eating a little humble pie as those Mora's can really cut. I would stil not trust carrying one as my only fixed blade but with how little they weigh, they are perfect for tossing in the pack as a back-up blade or even to use for all those finer cutting tasks !!!;):thumbup:
 
pitdog said:
So I guess I'm eating a little humble pie as those Mora's can really cut. I would stil not trust carrying one as my only fixed blade but with how little they weigh, they are perfect for tossing in the pack as a back-up blade or even to use for all those finer cutting tasks !!!;):thumbup:
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....and that my friend, is the beauty of the Mora!!! :thumbup::D
 
I think you will find a number of sub $30 knives that perform decently nowadays.
If the Mora was made in China it would probably have fewer proponents.

My favorite bushcraft knife is a Marbles woodcraft design made sometime in the 1930's, I would suspect that a Mora, or made in China Buck, gerber, coldsteel ect would hold an edge longer.

I personally don't buy the "magic" that some seem to think their Moras have, but they are a good performance vs dollar product.
 
Oh man! Someone please copy and save this to a disk! :D I think the world is going to stop turning for a few seconds! LOL :p
 
LOL! I am glad you found a use for them...they are definitely not the be all and end all of knives but they do a good job of cutting and slicing in most cases.

For a ten dollar knife they are really pretty tough to beat! Although I would be the first to admit that if I could have one knife, ever, forever, I would take my Aurora, not one of my moras. But I don't think it's a coincidence that the blade shape is similar.
 
BarberFobic1992 said:
Mrs. pit opens closet door, finds pitdog making fuzzy sticks in the dark.
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ROFLMAO!!!!
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Mora's are wicked when it comes to working with wood, and for the price no one should be without one.

Of course we understand were you come from, wanting something with a thicker blade stock. But if you just want a knife in different places, it won't set you back too much to put a Mora in each car, your kitchen, your desk, your garage, under your pillow, etc.:D
 
Dang, Pit. I thought I saw ice forming in my hellish hot swamp near a palm tree. I used to joke about those "dime store" looking moras, too. But they cut, don't they?
 
"but with how little they weigh, they are perfect for tossing in the pack as a back-up blade or even to use for all those finer cutting tasks !!!"

Well there you go. I say no matter what else you carry add...and a Mora. You'll probably reach for that mora quite often. I get along fine with my Triflex Craftsman and a Tramontina machete. My SBT out cuts any of my mora's but I find myself resisting certain jobs at times so as not to mess it up when the Mora will get it done too and I'm not going to screw up a knife I can't afford to replace. I'm really sold on the Triflex Craftsman. They take a nicer edge than the SS SWAK's I've been using. In two weeks I'll be back in PA and I'm planning an order to Ragweed forge already. Mac
 
pict, im also a big fan of the craftsman in triflex. the handle feels good, the steel is grea and the handle color makes it look less like little tikes made it.
 
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You know, I really don't like hot weather, in fact, I hate summer - the heat, humidity and bugs. It's only redeeming quality is the biodiversity it provides - all the lovely trees and plants.

Anyway, now that I'm 62, I realize the road ahead is going to be much shorter than the road already travelled, so it's with great happiness, in fact you could even call it glee, to know that hell finally froze over!!!!!!!

And if only, only, I was one of those people who like to say, "I told you so.....................................!"

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Yeah, Yeah !!! Just let the thread die now guy's.........must think my future threads through a little more from now on !!!!!:o
 
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