Woodlore clone vs Mora Clipper
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According to their website, the triflex steel is not a laminate, it's just differentially heat treated, (softer spine for greater toughness in the blade). You could potentially still end up with the same problem though.
the spine comes rounded off, very comfortable, yet not suitable for a ferro rod.
can you file of the corners of the back of the knife, then square off the center material ? if you get what i mean as the moras are a sandwitch with the high carbon steel in the center
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apparently stainless dosent work for fire steels half as well as carbon steel personaly i have a triker with my steel allmost useless as its 2 small really but i would never use a steel on any knife i owned, just hate the mess it leaves.
""as for bright orange clippers at meets it goes with my Pink cammo jacket"" FGYT Quote...well robin williams said if you got to go to war clash but that takes the cake
\_/ <<< that sort of thing its upside down ofc only way i could do it on a keyboard lol
apparently stainless dosent work for fire steels half as well as carbon steel personaly i have a triker with my steel allmost useless as its 2 small really but i would never use a steel on any knife i owned, just hate the mess it leaves.
""as for bright orange clippers at meets it goes with my Pink cammo jacket"" FGYT Quote...well robin williams said if you got to go to war clash but that takes the cake
apparently stainless dosent work for fire steels half as well as carbon steel personaly i have a triker with my steel allmost useless as its 2 small really but i would never use a steel on any knife i owned, just hate the mess it leaves.
""as for bright orange clippers at meets it goes with my Pink cammo jacket"" FGYT Quote...well robin williams said if you got to go to war clash but that takes the cake
Stainless steel works just as well as carbon on firesteels as many on here have posted before. It's not down to the steel, it's down to the sharpness of the edge and it's ability to shave large pieces off the main body. Again, as many people have pointed out, you can get huge sparks from broken glass or ceramics.
Nice stab at a review.
I like the grip on the woodlore style but it does vary with maker and materials
I have one of Mick Spain's bushtools in Micarta which has the advantage of the slimmer blade combined with the bottle shaped handle.
Amazing!
The Mora is certainly one for the toolbox and is a certain bargain.
...but it's not the best you can get, even if it is the best value.
I like the grip on the woodlore style but it does vary with maker and materials
I have one of Mick Spain's bushtools in Micarta which has the advantage of the slimmer blade combined with the bottle shaped handle.
Amazing!
The Mora is certainly one for the toolbox and is a certain bargain.
...but it's not the best you can get, even if it is the best value.
its all personal preference though i've read a lot of siberianfury's posts pouring scorn on the woodlore's cutting and slicing ability but i don't see ray mears struggling to use his.
personally i've never had any problems with woodlore style knives i've got 3 and they've done everything i've asked of them no problem, whereas with my old clipper it did struggle to split wood and the edge retention was nothing to write home about.
also i'm not sure doing 2 tests that both favour thinner blades is a fair review and in the cutting test you had to assist the mora.
rant over lol
personally i've never had any problems with woodlore style knives i've got 3 and they've done everything i've asked of them no problem, whereas with my old clipper it did struggle to split wood and the edge retention was nothing to write home about.
also i'm not sure doing 2 tests that both favour thinner blades is a fair review and in the cutting test you had to assist the mora.
rant over lol
its all personal preference though i've read a lot of siberianfury's posts pouring scorn on the woodlore's cutting and slicing ability but i don't see ray mears struggling to use his.
personally i've never had any problems with woodlore style knives i've got 3 and they've done everything i've asked of them no problem, whereas with my old clipper it did struggle to split wood and the edge retention was nothing to write home about.
also i'm not sure doing 2 tests that both favour thinner blades is a fair review and in the cutting test you had to assist the mora.
rant over lol
thinner blade cuts better thats just how it is, unless of course the thicker blade has very high grinds, the woodlore doesnt.
its just mechanics at the end of the day.
the test shows how the knives work, beleive what you want, ive made my opinion clear.
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the tests show you using 2 different cutting style's with 2 different knives so your always going to get different results.
as i already said its personal preference the clipper is a great knife but if i had to carry one knife it'd be a woodlore style one because its a better all rounder
What I don't get is that you say the clipper is better for radius cuts, but they are both similar widths from edge to spine so how are they really different? I'm not convinced to be honest, I wouldn't mind getting my mitts on a Woodlore style knife to see if it really is as bad as you say. I think it is possibly overly thick for no apparent reason, but apart from that it looks like it should be a decent knife for backwoods use.
To be a completely fair test, you would need to sharpen both knives and then subject them to a rigorous amount of testing doing the same thing over and over in the same materials to see which has the best edge retention. Once that is complete you could turn on to the actual tasks, so make a bunch of simple tent pegs in the same material with each knife, then split a load of the same wood with both knives, cut a number of different notches in the same wood with both knives and on and on ad infinitum.
Cutting two bits of scabby wood isn't really a frank and thorough test!
To be a completely fair test, you would need to sharpen both knives and then subject them to a rigorous amount of testing doing the same thing over and over in the same materials to see which has the best edge retention. Once that is complete you could turn on to the actual tasks, so make a bunch of simple tent pegs in the same material with each knife, then split a load of the same wood with both knives, cut a number of different notches in the same wood with both knives and on and on ad infinitum.
Cutting two bits of scabby wood isn't really a frank and thorough test!
