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Bushcraft Cutting Tools: Mora knives, hatchets, axes, and saws!
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- Опубликовано: 9 апр 2020
- Blades are essential for Bushcraft and wilderness survival, here is my collection of knives, hatchets, saws and axes along with thoughts on how these blades should be best used. Enjoy!
Let's start with the saw. I bought this Bahco Laplander folding saw on Amazon 5 years ago for 20 dollars. The Laplander is compact, light weight, and very efficient at sawing wood that is under 4 inches in diameter. The diamond carbide teeth on this saw is very durable, after 5 years of regular use, I have not noticed any major declines in sawing efficiency.
Next we'll move on to the knives.
9 years ago, I bought this Bahco Stainless knife in a Bait & Tackle shop in Pennsylvannia for 7 dollars. I put a 90 degree edge on the spine of this blade to make it throw sparks with a fire steel. The blade is shaving sharp and pretty agile. The knife's handle is easy to grip and has no hotspots. The rubberized grip is a great safety device when the handle is wet. I use this knife for fine carving tasks, cleaning fish and for general food processing tasks. Now, this knife's tang only goes about a quarter of the way into the handle, so battoning with it is risky. With that said, I have done straight grain battoning with this knife several times with no issues. The main advantage of this knife is that it's stainless steel blade is highly resistant to rusting. My only gripe with this knife is that the edge dulls faster and tends to roll when it hits a hard knot in wood. So I need to sharpen this knife more often than my high carbon steel blades.
NOW 4 years ago, I got the Mora classic #1 from Amazon for $10 dollars. This knife has a high carbon steel blade and a thin rat tail tang. The Mora Classic really excels at fine carving tasks. The knife is very agile knive and capable of making acute, high precision, cuts. It is also scary sharp. Now I haven't used this blade very much at all. So just a few months after buying this knife, I had an accident. It was a rainy day and the rain drops made the Mora Classic's handle slippery. So when making a cut, my fingers accidentally slid off the handle and onto the blade, and was badly cut. So now I'm leery of using this tool, in fact I have not taken this knife with me on a trip in 3 years.
5 years ago, I got the Mora Companion Heavy Duty for 14 dollars on Amazon. This knife is by FAR the most heavily used knife in my arsenal. It has been my faithful companion on the vast majority of outdoor adventures. The handle is super ergonomic and high traction with no hot spots. The blade strikes a good balance between being thick enough to split wood while still being nimble enough to make acute, high precision cuts. I use this blade for pretty much all cutting tasks from carving, to making feather sticks, to food processing, and to battoning. Speaking of battoning, I have battoned with this knife literally hundreds of times with both straight and cross grain batooning. This is a crazy level of durability for a three quarter tang knife. This knife's high carbon steel edge is scary sharp and extremely durable. To maintain this razor edge, I would strop this knife regularly and sharpen on the stone about twice a year. My only small gripe with this knife is that the high carbon steel blade rusts too easily when I'm out and about in coastal and riverine environments.
So after using my first hatchet for awhile, I became somewhat obsessed with the concept of the hatchet as a survival cutting tool. And I really wanted one of those fancy old world Swedish hatchets. So 3 years ago, I coughed up 83 dollars and bought myself a Hults Bruks hatchet. And so far, this hatchet is worth every dollar. The handle is thin and well balanced. The hafting job is rock solid, the sheath is high quality and durable. But the best part of this tool is the steel quality. The edge must be made of some kind of miracle steel. The edge is hair popping sharp. This hatchet can make extremely high precision cuts, as fine as that from a Mora knife, but then it can also be used to do heavy chopping and splitting tasks. And this edge can do all of these things and still hold it's razor sharpness. I've been using this hatchet regularly for 3 years and only had to sharpen it on a stone once. I even contacted Hults bruks to ask about how they made this steel, but their response was that it's a proprietary secret. So without belaboring the point, there is something a little bit magical about this hatchet.
You are the man! You videos are concise and realistic. I especially like that you cover materials that are financially within reach (as in NOT a $200 knife). Thanks for all of your hard work developing this series!
Thanks a bunch, I appreciate it!
it nice to see someone like me that loves his axes as much as his knifes
Yeah these blades are special to me!
Please come back to us. Right now is the perfect time for basics, beginner tutorials and bushcraft/survival “common sense” videos. All the people in quarantine will eat this genre up because of basic primal instinct to be able to survive. All the other similar channels are capitalizing on the massive audiences that flock to a video that catches a little bit of trendiness, then boom, the channel blows up, and things have the possibility to take off. Plus makes for good utilization of time when monetarily income can be uncertain. I’ve successfully binged all your videos over the course of 2 months and I decided to subscribe to you because you’re an interesting guy and have knowledge to share. All love brother, stay safe in these times🤘🏼💪🏼
Thanks for watching and subbing! I'm glad you're learning stuff from these videos that I make.
I think you should get a mora classic 611/612. It’s exactly like the mora classic
#1/#2 but with a front quillon (finger guard)
To prevent future injuries if your hand goes up the knife.
Thanks for sharing I'll look into it.
Hi I found your shepherd sling video really interesting, I wondered if you could make a follow up showing where you are at now and give us beginners some tips on the whole movement of how to throw . Much appreciated 👍👏👏
Hey thanks for watching! Yeah I've been meaning to make a follow up slinging video. Right now we're under a lockdown so I've been hanging out at home for the last month.
Awesome
Thx for watching!
Tip if you scrape The paint of the mora 1.0 it isn’t slippery at all
Thx for the tip! I thought about doing that but haven't gotten around to it.
@@WannabeBushcrafter ok i also burnished my handle so it has a realy old look to it
I charred mine with a blowtorch after scraping. Pisses me off that tool makers keep putting nasty paint or varnish on tool handles.
@@netyr4554 thx for watching! Yeah that varnish on the Mora Classic's handle can be dangerous.
Netyr never agreed with someone as much as with you
Good Video
Glad you enjoyed
Thank you sharing - appreciated your thoughts on the mora’s - respecting batoning/ and I had a mora accident as well.
Thanks for watching!
About the Bahco 2444 (knife), it's actually 3/4 rat tail tang, so no worries about light battoning. Love the channel!
Thanks for the info!
What is battoning? Newbie here trying to understand things..
@@sdrchannel576 splitting straight wooden piece using knife and a mallet of some sort (usually wooden). It replaces the use of an axe or hatchet to some extent.
If you want to soak the hatchet in anything to make it tighter, use antifreeze. The glycol is hygroscopic, viz it'll attracht moisture, swelling the wood. Most of the time a rehang is the better option, though.
Thanks for the tip!
Can you do a tutorial on how to get a razor edge?
Thanks for watching! Yeah I'll get around to a sharpening video one of these days! :)
If you are having edge retention or chipping problems with your steel, there are plenty of other steel options available like CPM 3V and CPM Cruwear.
Thanks for watching! Yeah I definitely want to try out some super steel blades in the future. 1095 and 12C27 works reasonably well for most tasks but I need to put by blades under regular maintenance to maintain the razor sharp edges.
Btw, if u were wondering, the Bahco knife is a Mora Clipper. It’s a collab between the 2 companies.
Thanks I've wondered about that.
Just found your channel through the Bushcraft Facebook group we're both in. You've got a new subscriber in me!
I have a little channel too, just starting out, mainly focusing on outdoorsing, hiking, backpacking and camping but I do have a passion for bushcraft so there may be some videos later down the line. Please take a look if you'd like.
Thanks for subbing! I'll check out your channel!
Is that the hultafors hultan? I've been wanting it for ages man
Yep it's a hultafors hatchet. It's pretty awesome!
The Bahco is made by Mora
Thanks for watching yeah I was wondering about that since the knife looked very similar to the Mora.