Mora Mods

[Kepis]

Decided to mod my Mora hook knives today, nothing too drastic, just taking the nasty tip off, a simple mod that makes these often maligned tools more than usable.

20180530_105518 by Mark D Emery, on Flickr

20180530_110421 by Mark D Emery, on Flickr

20180530_110446 by Mark D Emery, on Flickr

20180530_112222 by Mark D Emery, on Flickr

20180530_112213 by Mark D Emery, on Flickr

 

[crosslandkelly]

Good idea.

 

[Robson Valley]

Smart move to prune the tips.
Can I suggest that you consider carefully sharpening the tips?
I did that to a few farrier's knives = whacked the scorp-like tips off and sharpened the tip like a tongue.
Just when you need a little "dig" here and there.

Feather that blunt tip into an edge which follows the existing profile.

That gives you a far greater range of motion to twist your wrist and/or the spoon and keep cutting at he same time.

 

[Wander]

Yeah, I did that to mine - remove the tip.
I caught myself on it a few times and it was quite a hook. Mind you, I don't think I pruned mine quite as much as you did - pretty much just blunted mine.
I also took that ridge off that runs down the back, so there was a smoother action when using.
And then I took the wooden handle off and replaced it with a bone one...

 

[Kepis]

Yeah, I did that to mine - remove the tip.
I caught myself on it a few times and it was quite a hook. Mind you, I don't think I pruned mine quite as much as you did - pretty much just blunted mine.
I also took that ridge off that runs down the back, so there was a smoother action when using.
And then I took the wooden handle off and replaced it with a bone one...

I never use the tip on any spoon knife and have never inverted the knife to carve, i looked at my shallow curve Ben Orfords and thought they look smack on, so took a whole chunk off the tip of the Moras, they work well and less chance of people stabbing themselves.

Love the bone handle on yours.

 

[Robson Valley]

Kestrel Tool is probably the top bladesmith in the Pacific Northwest to make crooked carving knives and both elbow and D adzes.
These are the most common carving tools used by the First Nations carvers and others, like me.
The bigger blades, the J-shapes, are far and away the most versatile for carving anything.

I can see we all are converging on a lesser curve, more alike to the PacNW shapes.
I have some double edges blades but most are revised single edges farrier's hoof knives.

I have built up a Baby Sitka elbow adze and a D adze for bigger chips.
I'm nowhere good enough striking to texture a big surface.
I have the full Sitka gutter blade on my bench right now.

http://kestreltool.com/index.html