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A lot of the idiocy around terminology has come about as a result of manufacturers that aren't set up to properly make zero flat saber grinds trying to cash in on the "Scandi" craze by doing variations of conventional saber grinds and slapping labels like "scandivex" or "pseudo-scandi" or even just straight up incorrectly labeling saber grinds with standard secondary bevels as "scandi" that it's corrupted the public understanding of the term.
Meanwhile, the term itself was always a poor one to begin with. Moras are typically held up as the epitome of the term, yet they are actually slightly hollow ground and all but their woodcarving knives have microbevels on them, with some models having outright macrobevels that are visible without close scrutiny. The magic of them mostly lies in the fact that they're sharpened at low edge angles of only 11.5° per side, excepting their "Robust" models and similar. As noted, take a full flat grind and thin the edge down to equal that of a Mora and you're going to see a marked improvement in cutting performance. I actually do occasional regrinds of Moras to convert them to FFG and when I do so I don't change the edge bevel at all--I just grind a primary on it that thins out the geometry behind the edge and drastically reduce its visual width.
Meanwhile, the term itself was always a poor one to begin with. Moras are typically held up as the epitome of the term, yet they are actually slightly hollow ground and all but their woodcarving knives have microbevels on them, with some models having outright macrobevels that are visible without close scrutiny. The magic of them mostly lies in the fact that they're sharpened at low edge angles of only 11.5° per side, excepting their "Robust" models and similar. As noted, take a full flat grind and thin the edge down to equal that of a Mora and you're going to see a marked improvement in cutting performance. I actually do occasional regrinds of Moras to convert them to FFG and when I do so I don't change the edge bevel at all--I just grind a primary on it that thins out the geometry behind the edge and drastically reduce its visual width.