Hi
I found and old rusted mora knife (wood handled) in a tool box and thought I would make something useful of it (not that a mora isn`t useful
).
Lately I`ve read about the crooked knife and its use and I desided to make one. The finished article below.
I split the mora`s handle and removed it, sanded the blade removing the rust. Then I sanded the blade flat on one side making it a chisel ground blade.
The blade was then heated with a kerosene stove and bent. Both the tip and the tang. I intend to use it as a spoon knife as well. The tang was cut to about 7-8 cm.
Strangely the heat treat of the blade doesn`t seem affected as I thought it would. A file just slide of the edge, it is very sharp and holds the edge as a mora should.
Under a late night walk along the river a handle for the knife was obtained, a nice bent piece of Bird Cherry (Prunus Padus). The wood was shaped (knife and sand paper) and dried (microwave oven ). I carved an animal head in the handle end. Makes it more of a conversation piece .
The wood came out nice from the "drying", only two minor cracks occured.
I then drilled and burnt out the tang channel in the wood, filled it with pine resin/coal mix and fastened the blade. The handle was then reenforced with artificial sinew and dyed with some brown oilpaint (pigment and linenseed oil type).
Tor Helge
I found and old rusted mora knife (wood handled) in a tool box and thought I would make something useful of it (not that a mora isn`t useful
).Lately I`ve read about the crooked knife and its use and I desided to make one. The finished article below.
I split the mora`s handle and removed it, sanded the blade removing the rust. Then I sanded the blade flat on one side making it a chisel ground blade.
The blade was then heated with a kerosene stove and bent. Both the tip and the tang. I intend to use it as a spoon knife as well. The tang was cut to about 7-8 cm.
Strangely the heat treat of the blade doesn`t seem affected as I thought it would. A file just slide of the edge, it is very sharp and holds the edge as a mora should.
Under a late night walk along the river a handle for the knife was obtained, a nice bent piece of Bird Cherry (Prunus Padus). The wood was shaped (knife and sand paper) and dried (microwave oven
). I carved an animal head in the handle end. Makes it more of a conversation piece .
The wood came out nice from the "drying", only two minor cracks occured.
I then drilled and burnt out the tang channel in the wood, filled it with pine resin/coal mix and fastened the blade. The handle was then reenforced with artificial sinew and dyed with some brown oilpaint (pigment and linenseed oil type).
Tor Helge
