Mora of Sweden

[Ivantherussian03]

I like inexpensive things I can afford to replace.

[Blackwater]

Me too. I just got 3 more Companion models. I'll likely give 2 away to friends who love stainless knives, just to see how they get along with them. Won't tell them they're not stainless. Will let them find out for themselves. Also got one of the little @ 3.5" bladed "fishing knives" with the serrated back for my son to keep at his river house for fish cleaning. I think he's gonna' really like that one. He's very into things that just simply work, and if they're cheap, he likes them that much better. I think he's a Mora convert in the making.

I still love my 5" custom knife, and a couple of Benchmades I have, but for a fixed blade knife, it's awfully, awfully hard to beat a Mora. If price is factored in, there's nothing to even compete with them!

[GhostHawk]

My wife has started calling me a "Knife *****"

Yep, I'm addicted, and I love good carbon steel.

I continue to stash Mora's around the house, most have a fire steel on a lanyard attached to the sheath.

My EDC for the last couple years has been an Opinel #8 in high carbon steel.
Also a good bargain, and has a very positive locking ring.

Last week however I stumbled into a Kershaw folder, assisted open, carbon blade, black.
When I got him down from 34 to 20$ I paid him and walked away with it.

Bit out of my price range normally.

10-20$ will buy a lot of knife if it is a Mora.

[Swede 45]

Happy to see you guys enjoying our Mora knives..
Around here they are sold at every gasstation, DIY store, lumberyard, toolshack, hardwarestore.. even at grocerystores..
I have about 15-20 of them laying around.. toolboxes, car trunks, hunting/fishing backpacks.. one on each belt of all my hunting outdoor pants..so cheap and usefull, so I don´t care to have one and keep looking for where i put it.. If there´s a place where a knife may come in hand, I just buy one more and place it there...

[Ola]

Hey Swede, do you have any nick names for Mora knives? Here it is called: "The jacket opener".

[UKShootist]

I hate them with a vengeance! Every game show, shooting show, outdoors show I go to I buy one or two. They're worse than wire coat hangers. They're taking over the world.

Seriously, brilliant kit. The carbon steel ones take cold blueing very well.

[Ballistics in Scotland]

Hey Swede, do you have any nick names for Mora knives? Here it is called: "The jacket opener".

My first reaction was to wonder why anybody in Finland would choose a Swedish knife, when Finnish knives such as the Jarvenpaa and Martiini ranges are available. But they seem to have moved a bit up-market, or think they have. Here is one the same as I was given by a Finnish friend about1990, but I hope they were a lot cheaper then:

http://www.iisakkijarvenpaa.fi/us/pu...oispuukko.html

I suppose it is at least fifty years since I saw my first Mora knife - someone else's, unfortunately. Like damascus blades, I think the lamination is a matter of taste and tradition, since their qualities have been within the range of even plain carbon homogeneous steels for a long time. I'm fascinated by some of the specialised carving knives Mora do, and a stockmaker could surely use their drawknife with a handle at each end. General-purpose ones are usually too big.

www.jantzsupply.com , an excellent dealer in knifemaking supplies, usually stock a range of very similar Norwegian blades for you to finish yourself. They are out of stock at the moment, and I don't know how long that will last.

[The Governor]

I like moras for quality and price, but there's something about these steak knives that rock.
BTW, over $200 for the pair.

[Ola]

My first reaction was to wonder why anybody in Finland would choose a Swedish knife..

For all kinds of miss use, like constructions work, Mora is the natural choice. No one in their right minds would ruin a real puukko-knife in that. Mora is dispensable.

btw. Iisakki Järvenpää and Martini are not very highly regarded here. They are pretty but if you want a really good puukko there are many that are way better. This is just one example: http://www.roselli.fi/epages/roselli...Products/RW210

(I chose this one because it has traditional look and erconomics but high-end modern steel. Only way to sharpen is diamond..)

[TCLouis]

Most people seem to like bright shiny blades, I do not.
A good scrubbing on the carbon steel blades of the Moras I bought, then coated with a coating of common yellow mustard left on until it dries.

Washed off and there was a nice patina on the blade just as I had read there would be.

[GhostHawk]

Got off my butt yesterday and forced a patina on 2 Mora Knives.
Both Morakniv Craftline Basic 511 currently selling for 10$ and change at Amazon.

After doing some reading I gathered supply's. Jug of vinegar, a bottle cap with mustard, a few q-tips, and some paper towel, and a glass big enough to cover the blade with vinegar.

Heated the vinegar in microwave, inserted the knife in, and pulled up a stool to watch. After a few minutes the bubbles started. Now I did get a few places where the vinegar never really got a hold. I suspect dirt or oil.

I skipped the cleaning with alcohol phase and shouldn't have.

After I could see it was noticeably darker I removed the knife, washed and dried it. Some of the dark did wipe off, so be gentle here.

Then I sat down with a q-tip with the end twirled into a point and proceeded to put slanting lines on one side of the blade, then the other. After an hour of drying (and a nap) I washed the blade and everywhere the mustard was it was considerably lighter in color. I ended up reheating vinegar and gave it one more short 5 min soak. Then did final wash, dry, and sharpened. Mine did not lose much. But I gave it 10 strokes on a V steel and hit the barbers strop a few licks just to make sure the edge was smooth and sharp.

Here is how they came out.

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[Artful]

Interesting results - I'll have to put that into the old data bank - I'm fine with mine being shiny though

[Mytmousemalibu]

Like most of you Mora fans, I have a number of them and given them as gifts too. Such an awesome company making really great blades and at an affordable price point!

I think i'm going to have to get a couple carbon steel blades and do some weathering now! Maybe a nice rust blued finish would be neat!

[tomme boy]

Cold blue then bleach if you want a good patina. But be careful on how long the bleach is left to rust the metal. It works fast

[Nueces]

I get some nice color just by slicing a tomato.

[fiberoptik]

I hate them with a vengeance! Every game show, shooting show, outdoors show I go to I buy one or two. They're worse than wire coat hangers. They're taking over the world.

Seriously, brilliant kit. The carbon steel ones take cold blueing very well.

+1 on bluing


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[Artful]

Looks like a couple of new Mora's
http://knifenews.com/mora-eldris-unveiled/

Morakniv leaked some huge news in a small package today. The company announced the new Eldris, a knife that extends Mora’s product line into the broader every day carry market. “You could say that this is our interpretation of the folding knives that are very popular today, but Eldris has the advantages of the rigid features of a fixed blade”, says Arvid Larsson, a Design Engineer for Morakniv.


and full tang Garberg


and Kansbol