celebornen,
you are correct in that most people in Sweden look at Mora knives as disposable knives, but the actual quality of them is better than what people in Scandinavia give them credit for. This is mostly due to the simple fact that they ARE disposable knives in most work-related circumstances. Every construction worker has either a Mora, Hultafors or whatever, but they often end up scraping concrete and doing other serious abuse like that with it. Then they just throw it away and get another one. So, it's not too surprising that people don't care too much about them, but what they usually forget is that it is actually quite a good knife. I mean, if you'd scrape concrete with a custom Scandi it wouldn't hold up any better than a plastic Mora. I believe carbon steel Moras are 1095 and stainless steel Moras are Sandvik 12C27. Both of these steels are highly regarded, cheap steels.