What have you done with your mora????

RescueRiley

RescueRiley

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I was wondering what kind of tasks you all have put your moras through and how they handled..
 
haha, fine. Great little knife, made countless fires, fuzz sticks. everytheing you want it too ;)
 
RescueRiley said:
I was wondering what kind of tasks you all have put your moras through and how they handled..
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I have one that has done 20 years on sailboats and kayaks in salt water (stainless model), strapped to my PFD, cutting line, cleaning fish, scraping paint and putty, cooking, camping, gardening, house carpentry, auto repair, and it's still in my toolbox. I haven't used it for batoning, but I wouldn't be afraid to split, say, 2" stuff and I never used it as a prybar. It cuts :)

I didn't know what a mora was when I bought it. I was in a commercial fishing supply and saw DOZENS of them in bin boxes and it screamed "practical tool." I think I paid about $5-$6 for it then. I expected something like cheap junk for that price-- man, did I get a surpise. I got a Frosts clipper in carbon steel a few months ago (wicked sharp it is too, Matey) and I want to get another stainless one.
 
First I sand down the handles. There is pretty birch under all that red paint. Reshape them too. Give them a coat of Danish oil. Then stick them behind a khukuri. They make a great accessory knife that is actually usable.

They excel at everything a belt knife is supposed to do. Bushcraft tasks like fuzz stick making, carving notches for traps, whitling stakes, and sticks to roast marshmallows with. Kitchen tasks like chopping veggies, and cutting up meat. Warehouse tasks like cutting rope, twine, wire, and opening boxes.

They're good.
 
I had mine since I was 12 when my dad bought it for me. I used to start fire, cut hockey tape, dispatch squirrels that aren't quite dead fromt he pellet gun, gutted fish, pry open paint cans, cut bait, pry open clam shells for bait, whittle wood to make lures, opening chrismas presents...too...tied..to type...use imagination...
 
kevshin21 said:
ugly as a inbred ape eh? I like that :D
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I chuckled at that too, but I don't agree. They are a great study in industrial design-- all function, no "show." There can be great beauty in simplicity-- like a zen garden or a Shaker chair.
 
I all new guy here,and this is my first post.I love my Mora,it is the knife that I carry all the time
 
General camping chores, food prep, fuzz sticks, cut hiking staffs for those eho did not have them, kayak and canoe trip knife, clean pan fish, cut bait. Its easier to think what I have'nt done with my mora. It's the only fixed blade knife I own exept for my old Buck 102 woodsman, and Ontario machete. Aside from my edc pocket knife, my mora is my most used knife.
 
Everything from the mundane (Kitchen tasks, camp chores, opening boxes) to some destructive testing for fun / to see its limitations (Batoning through street signs, heavy prying etc)
 
Batoned a Craftsman Triflex through some mesquite and olive wood. There was a little wire-edge-like rolling to the extreme edge of the edge, but I attributed that to the slight softening some people find at the very, very edge of Mora knives, likely due to the temper being drawn just a tad at the very edge due to polishing heat. Sharpened it back up, no problems.
 
House duties include kitchen duty cutting veggies and meat, trimming carpet, cutting up cardboard boxes, Cutting stereo wire, stripping wire, cutting old hoses off radiator. Camp duties included whittling and notching tie down pegs, cutting fuz sticks, cutting-delimbing-debarking willow, whittling shavings, cutting cordage, sharpening digging stick, sharpening throwing star, cleaning and filleting fish, cleaned-skinned deer.
 
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