thanks - went and bought a couple of those.. the special edition Ukraine one for tripping and a smaller one just to see. Handsome knives, better-looking than the Moras to my eye, I guess I'm a knife collector now. Never thought I had the collector gene but recently started on old fly reels, English and US, now knives .. well they're cheap enough, better than collecting wives or canoes I suppose.. ha
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thanks - went and bought a couple of those.. the special edition Ukraine one for tripping and a smaller one just to see. Handsome knives, better-looking than the Moras to my eye, I guess I'm a knife collector now. Never thought I had the collector gene but recently started on old fly reels, English and US, now knives .. well they're cheap enough, better than collecting wives or canoes I suppose.. ha
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Glenn….
You carry a police billy club on a canoe trip, but not a axe?
……BB
You carry a police billy club on a canoe trip, but not a axe?
……BB
After snapping my old bone handle sheath knife decades ago by simply hitting it off-angle, I learned axes and hatchets are for chopping and splitting, and knives are for cutting and carving. To this day I still wince when remembering spending 6 days with nothing to cut with...
I'd rather carry a 1.5 lb hatchet that I can baton the he** out of (yes, I've even used a rock as a baton) than 2-3 sheath knives that add up to that same 1.5 lbs and require 3 times the work to split kindling. Late spring to early fall I generally don't bother with either an axe or saw as it's generally fairly easy to find smaller firewood and I'm not relying on an overnight fire, late fall and early spring I carry a folding buck saw and hatchet, and in Winter it's a 33"bow saw and 3/4 axe because then that fire is often a necessity
I'd rather carry a 1.5 lb hatchet that I can baton the he** out of (yes, I've even used a rock as a baton) than 2-3 sheath knives that add up to that same 1.5 lbs and require 3 times the work to split kindling. Late spring to early fall I generally don't bother with either an axe or saw as it's generally fairly easy to find smaller firewood and I'm not relying on an overnight fire, late fall and early spring I carry a folding buck saw and hatchet, and in Winter it's a 33"bow saw and 3/4 axe because then that fire is often a necessity
I have no problem using my Mora for batoning wood but I cook over a twig stove almost 100% of the time so those pieces of wood are usually 6" long and about 3" in diameter. Pretty easy work for a knife to split.
Alan
Alan
I did this time. It does sound funny.
As I said, I almost never use an axe at home and never on canoe trips. I use saws, machetes and knives. They do what I need to be done.
Last weekend was two canoe day trips with two nights in a campground in New Hampshire. I bought some split firewood, which was very hard, gnarly and knotty. I sometimes carry the billy club in my vehicle to kill zombies, and used it to baton one inch slivers of kindling off the quarter split wood, using a fixed blade knife. Even if I had an axe, I don't think I have the skill with one to be as precise a batoner as I am with a knife. Obviously, an axe is the right implement to split logs. But when camping, I'm only ever sawing and splitting sticks with a max diameter of 3 or 4 inches. I'm comfortable doing that with my pruning saws and long knives/machetes.
Unlike @scoutergriz, I have never broken a fixed blade knife and have no fear of doing so by using my SS full tang knives for batoning.
The billy club has never gone on a real canoe trip or in a canoe at all. It usually lives with my wife, who got it from her father, who got it sometime during WWII.
I have a Mora I use to split stuff for my twig stove, primarily.
I like Moras very much. They’re quite capable, it’s impressive the abuse they take. Batoning seems to be the way they meet their demise, but they’re inexpensive enough it’s not a big deal. Or, use a small ax and the Mora will live a long happy life. I have several, and find I’m partial to the Kansbol for a camp knife, the thinner stock makes them versatile in the camp kitchen. I got the orange one so I can find it when I set it down 
These pics are all from a one-month OKC (one knife challenge). It was the only knife I used all month, and the challenges included bushcrafty things as well as the normal domestic load. Except at the office where I didn’t want to cause pandemonium, which was allowed per the rules.
These pics are all from a one-month OKC (one knife challenge). It was the only knife I used all month, and the challenges included bushcrafty things as well as the normal domestic load. Except at the office where I didn’t want to cause pandemonium, which was allowed per the rules.
It’s that compound grind that makes it work. It’s no comparison to a decent santoku, and I’ve got to go a lot slower than my normal slicing and chopping speed, but it works well enough!
Lol, I've been rethinking my former disdain for the rusty Mora. I've been thinking that it would be a great knife for people low on iron, they could just cut up onions with it, and not bother with the iron supplements.
Nothing adds colour like a little iron oxide. Fe₂O₃ to you studious types.
And a good trusty rusty Mora could go a long way to caramelizing yer onions Mem. I know how ya like to cook.
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