I would like to start this post with a disclaimer. I own many high end bushcraft knives and love them all, with that being said, Mora knives will always rule all. Why is that you may ask? Because of the exceptional value that they present to the table.
First of all the mora in my eye is not only great for the fact that they are cheap and easily replaced. That is simply what some think that they are cheap and don't really have a lot of value simply based on the price. However this is not how I see it. The mora in my eyes is single handily reasonable for the foundation and shaping of many great woodsmen and bushcrafter. That is because your not afraid to take risk with the knife. Because they are so cheap, if I baton it trying to make a friction fire hearth and it snaps oh well. They funny thing is, in my experience they have never snapped. I have had full tang knives fail before the mora(because the mora never fail) in the same wood, these knives cost double if not triple. It allows the user to take risk to further hone their skills, not only in working wood but in the aspect in the woods life that I see to be the most over looked. That is sharpening your knife.
That leads me to my next thought about mora knives. Being able to sharpen a knife is more important than being able to use it, because if you are using a dull knife it can be very unsafe and can lead to poor technique and harm your ability to grow as a woodsman. (I will make a video on sharpening a knife, and for the love of all mighty. Please don't sharpen a scandi in one of those swipe through sharpeners that puts a secondary bevel on the blade that no longer makes it a scandi. Keep the angle the same!!). This knife and its 1095 high carbon steel allows you to hone your skills at sharpening the knife, since the steel is a bit soft it is easily fixed if you he a slip up.
The one default of the knife is that it does not come perfect for woods skills straight out of the packaging. However the few downsides that the knife has are easily fixed with minimal tools. The mods that need to be done.
1. The first mod that needs to be done is to file the back of the spine to a 90degree angle for the scraping of tinders and ferro rods, which leads me to the next mod
2. The ferro rod. The mora sheath since it's plastic does not come with much of a way to attach a ferro rod, which in my opinion is a must have for a knife sheath. This can be simply done though. By simply attaching a small piece of rangerband(rubber band) that fits tightly around the sheath. Now you can simply insert a ferro rod between the sheath and rangerband. With the paracord attached to the ferro rod, loop it so that the ferro rod cannot fall off.
In my option these are the only real mods needed to the knife. (you could do some forced patina on the blade for the fun of it!)
CONCLUSION;
So all of these things add up the the fact that the mora is king. It's king not because it's inexpensive but because it allows experimentation which leads to creating the greatest woodsmen
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