My First Mora

[Tengu]

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I got the image off that knife shop online, cant recall the link.....

Its the second one

I found this at a car boot today. it cost me £2.

Its a very nice blade. You can tell its good, its solidly made and has that indescribable feel of a quality product

 

[addyb]

My neighbour has the second one as well. It's scary sharp and a lovely looking traditional Mora.

Congratulations on your purchase!

 

[seany boy]

Hi great find there Tengu. Car boot sale's are often a good place to pick up a bargain. Made a few good purchase's myself,when i get a chance i'll post some pic's of a couple of billhooks i bought, also a small adze and a large adze all of which were ridiculously cheap

 

[Tengu]

Particularly as it was in a big box of varied knives, mostly nasty penknives, all labeled £2...

 

[OldJimbo]

Does yours have the trailing point instead of a point in line with the handle - as shown on that picture? They're a little less common here.
It'd be interesting to know what yours has stamped on the blade too - some of these were made quite a few years ago.

 

[Tengu]

no, your quite right, the blade in the picture does have a trailing point, whereas mine is in line with the handle, with an anglw in the back to make it so. (that depicted blades back is straight as you can see.

its not the same blade.

on the blade it says;

K J ERIKKSON
MORA-SWEDEN
CARBON STEEL

And the handle is marked `WHITBY KNIVES, THE ACE OF BLADES in a diamond. (is that the importer??)

 

[OldJimbo]

Yep, Whitby is the importer.

These carbon Erikssons are great knives, and the model with the inline point is really useful for jobs which don't involve too much butchering, but rather more work on wood.
Excellent find!

 

[bushtuckerman]

I have the Erikkson Mora, also through Whitby. I didn't look after it particularly well, and it's come apart now (you need to take care with these things they aren't the most solid knives, I have another Mora smaller than this one and the handle came off that too), but I like it and learnt how to use a knife with such a large curve on it to my advantage when carving, by putting my left thumb behind it whilst holding the wood. Mine is the stainless version, but I prefer the carbon version my friend has, it is much nicer to use. Good blade, so I might rehandle it sometime. I paid a slightly dearer £10! Well worth the cost.

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

Womble_Lancs has the same knife, she loves it

 

[Tengu]

Its a great knife and a nice find.

My other knife is a solidly built Tramontia bowie with a 6.5 inch blade. its made out of Chrome Moybediunum steel. (mean anything to anyone??)

Ill post pics if you like.

 

[OldJimbo]

Years ago I wouldn't have been surprised about handles coming off with Moras - I even showed some pics of handle construction on this page:
Wooden Handled Mora
Surprisingly I've never had a handle come off with regular use, though. It's still a good idea to fill the huge handle void if possible, just to prevent food poisoning. That's easy on the Moras with a simple ferrule - but might be difficult on those with a guard.

Older Moras may have a slotted screw to attach handle rather than the tang simply being peened, or a metal tube attachment. I have one and it's the strangest Mora I've ever seen. I'll have to get some pics up.

 

[Bunnerz]

My first Mora came this morning

What should I do to make the top able to strike?

 

[OldJimbo]

You just hone the spine flat so that it gets sharp edges with flats of blade. Coarse emery paper will do fine and save your better stones.
I still prefer a broken piece of high speed steel (not bimetal) hacksaw blade for a striker as I can hold tinder next to striker and get it started first try.

 

[bushtuckerman]

The guard on mine ****** me off...so when it fell apart (the ring/washer type thing on the tang came off) I removed it, sorted! I might remove some of the curve as well, modding is a laugh.

 

[OldJimbo]

What do you figure caused the handle to come off? Surprisingly despite the number of Moras I have and the batonning I do, I haven't had one failure in manyyears.