Thoughts on Mora knives?

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The_Monkeyboy

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Sorry, the search is down for non-paying deadbeats like me. What do you guys know about the old swedish Mora brand hunting knives? I have 2 of them, and they seem decent enough for the $10 or so I paid for each of them. Has anybody used them before? I took an arkansas stone to one of them, and it seems to be holding a wicked edge. Does anybody have any comments for the poor noob?
 
I love Moras, and I think I speak for everybody here when I say that. The perform disproportionately to their low a price. A good place to pick them up is ragweedforge.com
 
They're probably the best fixed blade for $10 you'll ever find. Money well spent.
 
If you are not in to chopping with them, they are as good as about any knife under 100.00. I am speaking of general hunting, fishing and camp chores. I have been using them for years right along side much more spendy knives.
 
A wide varity of blade shapes and handles in either good stainless or carbon steel and anyone can freehand sharpen a mora without problems. I love the clipper it has a sheath that you can clip on your belt or pocket or swim trunks really easy and the handle is rubber coated for a good grip. Get an orange one from ragweedforge.com and you'll never loose it in the woods.
 
Great knives, and you can search if you use google to search bladeforums.com!
 
any words on the laminated carbon steel s-1 or s-2? that seems to be marketed as their 'premier' / 'original' blade. Do people like those more than the standard carbon or even their stainless?

i am looking for a beater backpacking blade. i am partial to spydercos, but i want something that i can abuse or lose without regret.
 
I have the #137 (lam) #780 and a #2000 of these three I like the 780 the most followed by the 2000 in a close second. The 137 seems to be real strong and gets stupid sharp but the edge chips easy, the 2000 has a good grip nice blade shape/length and is easyer to maintain because it is stainless. The 780 holds a edge longer than the other two and has taken more abuse with less damage to the blade making it the winner IMO. I did not expect this kind of performance from a knife that is so cheap and the scandi grind really supperised me in its amazing cutting ability, like others said www.ragweedforge.com is a good place to get one along with www.bensbackwoods.com they have a few other brands that are more "high class".
 
UCberzerkeley said:
i am looking for a beater backpacking blade. i am partial to spydercos, but i want something that i can abuse or lose without regret.
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If you're looking for something you can beat, dispose of and lose with no regret, then definitely get a Mora. It doesn't really much matter what - they're all good beater and all cheap, with the exception of the Mora 2000. I'm partial to the carbon steel ones. You can't spend a couple of bucks better on a knife than on a Mora.

Also consider the Hultafors "Moras" - roughly the same kind of design, different but equally Swedish manufacturer. For a beater, you can't beat (pun not intended) the Hultafors Grovkniv "GK". Now that's a real beater - if you manage to somehow break that thing, you were doing something wrong. :D That one comes with a secondary grind, but it's easy to get rid off or convex in use. This one also takes batoning a lot better than other Mora type knives.
 
Elen said:
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Also consider the Hultafors "Moras" - roughly the same kind of design, different but equally Swedish manufacturer. For a beater, you can't beat (pun not intended) the Hultafors Grovkniv "GK". Now that's a real beater - if you manage to somehow break that thing, you were doing something wrong. :D SNIP.
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Where does one go about finding a Hultafors Grovkniv?:confused:
 
I am assuming by "batoning" you mean whacking it on the back with something heavy? Again, sorry, I'm new here, and don't get down out of the trees nearly as often as I would like. Where would you find pictures of these knives? Who sells them, and how much do they go for?

-Mb
 
yes batoning is to hit the spine of the blade with a baton to split or cut wood for exemple.
 
elkins45 said:
Where does one go about finding a Hultafors Grovkniv?:confused:
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Here in Scandinavia, you could find one by walking into nearly any hardware store or even any store that sells anything even remotely to do with construction work of any kind. Over in the States, I don't have the slightest idea - but I would imagine that any place that sells a lot of Scandinavian made knives would know where to get them or have them in stock already.

The_Monkeyboy said:
Where would you find pictures of these knives? Who sells them, and how much do they go for?

-Mb
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Here is a link to one picture, at least, of the knife and the sheath. http://www.hultafors.se/pages/produkter/shop/ArticleBigPic.asp?BigPicID=1889&ArticleName=GROVKNIV GK

They're very inexpensive over here. I just bought two last week for 8 €.
 
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Now I know what to buy my two nephews that lose every knife that I give them. I may have to buy a few for myself. :thumbup:
 
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