Mora Knifes

[BAM-BAM]

What are your thoughts on Mora/Morakniv knifes ????????

I've never had one ........ but looking at buying two as starter knifes for my boys....................................

 

[Smith357]

I firmly believe that Mora is the best bang for the buck in a fixed blade knife. Everyone should own at least two. I keep a stainless model in my trunk and have a few others that I have modified for fun. The zero V grind or Scandi grind is easy to keep sharp, and they are shaving sharp from the factory. The Scandi grind excels as an amazing wood carver, on a thicker blade it makes for a poor general purpose edge as it acts like a splitting wedge, but it is fine for thin bladed knife. Scandi grinds also tend to be very delicate, for a boys knife you may want to put a secondary convex bevel for added edge strength. With models starting at $10 how can you possibly go wrong.

There are many hard core survivalist/wood crafters/bush crafters who stake their lives on a Mora knife.

 

[gregintenn]

Sharpest knife I ever held. I've yet to dull one, so I can't report on how easily they can be resharpened. For the price, I suppose you could just throw it away and buy a new one.

I believe they are the best deal going in the fixed blade knife world.

 

[chaparrito]

I picked on up on Amazon special around Christmastime for 9 bucks or something. Beats me how they make them so cheap. I immediately cut myself on it. Scary sharp. It now lives in the hay shed for cutting bale strings and opening feed sacks. Great knife. There are some fun videos on youtube of guys doing pretty amazing bush crafting with them. A kid would be hard pressed to ruin one of the stainless ones.

 

[Marshwheeling]

You have two main decisions to make with Moras: carbon steel or stainless, and rubber handles vs. wood. There are also some very inexpensive low-cost utility knives, under ten bucks, with plastic handles. I like them both, for different reasons. The rubber handles are a bit easier to hang onto, while the wood ones, painted red, have a nice feel and old-school charm.

I prefer the carbon steel for most purposes, but if your boys are young, they will probably be more comfortable with stainless. I started my six-year-old grandson on a carbon Opinel, but soon switched him to stainless for that reason.

If you are buying some for your boys, pick up a couple for yourself, too. If your main purpose for a knife is to cut stuff, it will be hard to do better.

 

[shouldazagged]

Like the Opinel, a superb value--great knife for ridiculously little money.

I prefer carbon steel, but I'm told the stainless ones are also quite good.

Take a look at the Opinel line, too. Featherlight but sturdy folding knives with an idiot-proof locking collar.

 

[gdogs]

Fantastic, inexpensive fixed blade. Can't go wrong picking up a few of them. I keep one in every LAPG range bag I have (I use those bags for everything as they can be picked up cheap on sale several times a year).

 

[eveled]

Like the Opinel, a superb value--great knife for ridiculously little money.

I prefer carbon steel, but I'm told the stainless ones are also quite good.

Take a look at the Opinel line, too. Featherlight but sturdy folding knives with an idiot-proof locking collar.

I agree opinels are great knives, just not sure they are idiot proof. You have to manually lock them forget to twist the collar, and you have a finger guillotine.

For a fixed blade knife for a kid make sure it has a guard. You know they are going to be stabbing things with it to see who can go the deepest. Slipping down over the blade can be devastating.

 

[eveled]

I think any kid would be proud to have an Ontario air force survival knife. (Don't follow the link to Sears, it is not my link.)

They are available on Amazon, nice heavy safe blade, sturdy guard, saw blade, sharpening stone, a pommel to smash stuff with, sturdy safe sheath. All with some military heritage.

 

[ankona]

Question. I've been looking for a cheap decent knife for cutting bait for saltwater fishing. The stainless version caught my interest. How would this knife hold up to saltwater environment assuming cleaned with hot soapy water and dried at end of day.

 

[Richard Simmons]

Everyone should have a Mora or two. I picked up these two over the last year or so, sorry for the lousy photo and IIRC the orange and black at $13 including shipping was the most expensive. Just a great all around knife. A no frills, basic knife that performs way past it's price point.

 

[BAM-BAM]

LoL forgot to mention ..... the boys are 15 and 18 and these will be their second knives..... the first were Winchester Brand (?) I found on sale at Wolly'sWorld.....several years ago.

Kids today live in a disposable world and I'm just not ready to sink big bucks into their gear yet......... but Mora knives seem a step or two above most LGS or Box Store knives at a "great" price......in a few years the Mora's can go into the tackle boxes and the Boys will get something for the next 40 years and memories of their Dad.

 

[gregintenn]

Question. I've been looking for a cheap decent knife for cutting bait for saltwater fishing. The stainless version caught my interest. How would this knife hold up to saltwater environment assuming cleaned with hot soapy water and dried at end of day.

They're ten bucks! If it doesn't hold up, and I suspect it would, just chuck it and get another one.

 

[serger]

Mora knives? For the price you can't beat em with a stick. I have several and they really punch above their weight class. You will not be disappointed.

 

[45times6]

Everything I'd say has pretty much already been said -- they're amazing, and inexpensive enough that there's no excuse not to have a bunch of them. I make sure to add one to every car trunk kit & "go bag" in the house.

One thing I'll add is that their spines tend to be rounded over, so I recommend that you to take a file to them to square them off before trying to use them with a fire steel.

 

[Rangerpat]

One by land and one by sea, I keep a Morakniv Bushcraft Black in my pick-up truck and a Bushcraft Orange in my boat.

 

[mauser9]

Seem to rate favorably on Blade Forum. Might check one out myself along with that new Gerber Strongarm you can score for around $50 with 420 H.C. steel.

 

[ankona]

They're ten bucks! If it doesn't hold up, and I suspect it would, just chuck it and get another one.

Where are they available for ten buck? I'm seeing them priced around $29 and change.

 

[Rivoak]

They are great knives for the money. I have three I have been using in the kitchen for over two years, they have kept their edge and been run through the dishwasher dozens of times with no rust or dulling.


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[gtoppcop]

The Swedes swear by them. When I lived in Sweden, they were nearly in every hardware store (järn och färg) and are carried by any Swedish handyman worth his salt.

For $10 they are inexpensive and are well worth the "pengar" that one must give up. They take to sharpening very well. The steel that's used is very decent (as most Scandinavian blades are...) and stays sharp for sometime.

Hard to argue why not...