This is a comment for the interviewer. Gifting Cody a knife that he likes to use was pure class. I think that's a great way to show your gratitude to Cody for taking the time to share a little bit of his knowledge on your channel. And I like how you picked up a used knife and put your time and energy bringing it back to life. Also, adding your own handmade sheath was fantastic. Way to go!! Thank you for this video.
Cody does not mince words and he is spot on! Too many bushcraft RUclips stars that have very limited experience. Follow guys like Cody and you will be able to tease out the BS.
Love Cody! I'm from Prescott AZ originally and took a class with him back in 2008 before he became famous on Discovery Channel. His lessons still stick with me to this day!
Cody is such a nice guy. I saw him once in a restaurant. I briefly said hi and was fan and walked away. I didnt want to bother him. He made a point to come over to me and chat for a few minutes.
Very interesting to listen to. I had the pleasure of meeting Cody at the Global Bushcraft Symposium 22 in Wales. He was as down to earth as in this video. I was aware of the work of Mors before the conference, but during it, I was really struck by how many practioners had learnt so much from him and expanded their skills under Mors tutelage. With Mors gone, it is the likes of Cody, Kelly Harlton and so many others that allow those not fortunate enough to have met him, share some of the knowledge.
Mors it of course the main inspiration for many of us but there a others names in the US/north america that don't get the recognition they deserve and were probably as import as Mors people like Larry D. Slson, Dave Wescoot, Dave Hollady, Tom Brown they all gave a huge contribution.
Wow thank you very much. This RUclips stuff is all new to me but I did like the experience and will try to develop it in the future with other interesting individual that are somehow connected to the Mora knife.
What's stopping Cody Lundin & Dave Canterbury from starting a channel on RUclips & doing everything we loved about dual survival without any nonsense from executives? We loved Dual Survival. The first two seasons were exciting & entertaining as well as informative. I would love to see that again. The chemistry may not have been there for the two of them but to us they were one hell of a team.
Cody’s temperament and calm approach to things made him my favorite. I’d love to see Dave and Cody do another series. They had great chemistry. I quite watching when Dave left. Did not like Dave’s replacement. And I love mora knives!
What an important history lesson revealed in this brief interview with Cody Lundin. The Mora #1 Knife is one of the most iconic knives in the camp craft world. A simple design, a set of good materials and carbon steel components, easy to maintain and keep a sharp edge. But most importantly, they cut every time you need them to. Cody is an excellent teacher and has a great common man approach to sharing information. Good interview! Thank you.
👍 It is refreshing to listen to Cody (or, read his books) because he simply and directly brings the reality of common sense to the conversation. As a boy my father, the mechanic, told me it is the mechanic not the wrench that maintains machinery.
@@Oldmora I took 2 classes w/ Cody when I lived in Prescott, AZ. Always enjoy listening & learning from him. When did you record this video? Where did you record it (AZ)? Oh, and thanks for your Mora knives history comments, I found them very interesting.
I lived in Sweden for a few years after I turned 18. Many construction workers carried two moras on their belt. I started using them, not knowing what they were capable of, before I got into wilderness survival and living skills. Great knives.
I attended a course taught by Cody Lundin in 2020 and he had Mora Classics for sale and he also had customized Mora Companions with his logo on them. Most of the students including me already had Mora knives.
As a Boy Scout in Canada in the late 1950's & early 1960's, I can attest to the fact that I owned a Mora Scout knife with the double guard. One of my "patches" was for me to make my own leather sheath for that knife from the Tandy kit.
Cody is amazing… I got hooked on dual survival because of him and Dave Canterbury… I’m gonna try to take a course from him this year if I can afford the trip 😊 As a knife reviewer and a survival lover… I really enjoyed watching this … my favorite things together
Im from Finland and grew up using puukko's and mora's, maybe even more of the moras since those where cheap and more available. How ever when i was young i always used to drool over the big American knives i saw on tv the Bucks and KA-bars then i grew up and the magic of internet was available to me so i ordered one... it was Buck nighthawk, first time i used it to carve wood i was like 🤯 it felt like using a kitchen knife 😂.... the "scandi" knives are so much better at wood work. I had to dug up my Mora #1 and #2' to fiddle with during this interview... the old red handle Moras used to come with thicker spine and always with tang comming out of the handle. The new versions are nice too but back in the 60's and 50's moras are just amazing i still see them around alot here. Some of my relatives have used them at work for decades and those are now like ice picks
I was the opposite; in south-eastern Europe, the choices were primarily confined to hunting-style knives made in Portugal that were clones after Solingen hunting knives and a lot of Bowie-style knives made in Spain. When my father gave me a Frost 700 in the middle of the 1990s, it was a pretty "weird object," but eye opining. The old ones are still my favored carries even if the new ones are really excellent (and the steel has never been as good as now).
@@Oldmora no it wasn't there aren't any issued knives apart from the bayonet and even that is for only some units. I served in 2008 and back then majority carried traditional finnish puukko's.
I live in tropical rainforest on a homestead and my Mora have developed patina that protect the blade. Forget Mora, I also use local made choppers on my homestead that are low alloy steels in 5160/9260 that rust and still don't have issues. I've also lived near the sea and managed with low alloy/plain carbon blades. IF I go diving or fishing I take stainless blades (also prefer stainless for folders) but otherwise I really don't need to bother so much about rust.
I found out about Mora knives all about myself when I picked up my first Mora knife locally. It was a Premier just like Cody's. I knew shortly after that they did not make it as there were other knives around with the "Premier" name on it. I then started finding KJ knives and to this day KJ is my fav brand and I still have several. Today in Canada, you can't even take an all rubber Cold Steel training knife on a plane. I see many interesting stuff at airport sales. Mora are often sold at Marine stores in Canada, you also find carbon Green River there which is odd in a salt water environment. Just keep carbon dry, I have used Green River carbon in the kitchen for 30 years, they are grey in color but no pits and still keep an edge.
Very cool. Have you seen this article about KJE oldmora.blogspot.com/2020/12/kjeriksson.html? Here in Europe, I know people that had problems with a nail clipper, that although not prohibit some customs officers goes all crazy when they see them
Mal vi o vídeo, guardei-o, para poder assistir quando tivesse mais tempo, para poder usufruir e "beber" conhecimento, e que belo serão passei eu. Muito obrigado João por esta maravilha.
Cody was the reason I purchased my first Mora knife. I was curious about the red handled knife hanging on Cody's neck and later that night I was watching the knife home shopping network and they were being sold for 10$ and I snatched it up! That was 15 years ago and my Mora #2 is still going strong minus the tip. Now that I see that they are sold out a lot of the time and go for 30-40$ on some sites I would have told my 23 year old self to purchase 3 mora.
I love mora knives, but growing up in rural colorado i grew up on the sharpfinger and buck 110. I love all 3 and can use all three. Seems like 3.5 to 4 inches with a fine point does everything one needs.
A small Mora knife was my first knife in life. It's common knowledge here in Norway that iron of superior quality is extracted from the iron mine in Sweden. This has been the basis for the cheap but good quality knives Mora have made for almost 200 years.
It’s very interesting to see the how the difference cultures all over the world, back then had different preferences, you guys up north always preferred fixed blades while for me for example, in the south of Europe, the folding knife was the king, that was affordable and every man and many cases the child would have one on his pocket.
@@Oldmora Here in the north the knife was mostly used for gutting and cleaning fish. A messy task with a lot of blood an gunk. A fixed blade is much easyer to clean. A pocket knife not so, an will over time just rust and feil in the end.
@@Oldmora Up here in the north, we use the knife mostly in connection with fishing and hunting. There will be a lot of blood and gunk. A fixed blade knife is far easier to clean. But a folding knife will get full of blood and salt water and be very impractical to use. It will quickly just rust and stall.
Mora has been widely available in my country (Holland) like all my life. I bought my first two 50+ years ago when I was 10/11 years old and still have them. On my first Swedish canoe trip some 30 years ago, reaching civilization again, we stopped at a dock and asked the landowner for permission to camp on his land (Allemansrätten) and of course he agreed. I carried a Mora 511 (with cut off fingerguard along with a big knife and machete). I noticed the landowner had the same 511's lying around basically everywhere some really rusty so I asked how he would clean and sharpen them. He laughed and told me he bought a box and if they became all dull or rusty he just bought a new box. (I also found out that in Sweden a Dutch beer makes a really good trade item or gift). When I founded the Dutch Bushcraft Association back in 2011 I did choose the Hultafors GK for instructors and students because you can baton on that knife all day long with no failure. I consider the budget Mora's or Hultafors knives as the 'all you need' knives and the rest as 'you want' knives. Even last year (at age 60) visiting Thailand 3 times I brought my SAK/multitool, a Mora 546 or Hultafors RFR and bought a local machete (some 6 euro) there. Customs will almost always allow an simpe SAK/multitool into the country as a backpacker tool and Thailand did also allow my Mora/Hultafors but even if they would confiscate the Mora/Hultafors I would have lost some 7 euro. Of course all knives and multitools in your check in luggage. Regarding the interview I fully agree about the vision on the all you need knives but for where I live and travel I prefer the stainless ones for food prep.
In Sweden you can buy the basic model in buckets of 50. The handyman use them as discardable blade, and many times they carry two of them, so if one get dull that just pick the other one and they don’t have to stop
I've had a Mora Knife since the 90's. I think its the Classic No. 1. With the red handle. I now have two Mora Heavy Duty Companion knives. And they are great blades.
Great interview. Mora knives were sold in the US at least from the 1950s in Wisconsin. I have come across old sporting goods store adds and you will see not only what assume is the red handle as it is black & white but also the traditional scout knife. Probably as there is a large Swedish population as well as in Minnesota, Illinois and Iowa. Quite a few Finns in northern Wisconsin, the UP as well as Minnesota. Post WW2 many Swedish decendents returned to Sweden to see their families as US currency exchange rates were good. Many of my family went there in the late 1960s. My grandfather was born there and my grandmother although born in the US, her parents had just settled here. There were rural areas called little Sweden because of so many settleing in one area. Same with Finns, Danes and Norwegians.
This is true. They certainly were around here. You see them in a lot of old American catalogs. You also had Swedes bringing them back, my grandfather brought one back from a trip back to Sweden and gave it to my parent's for me when I was born.
Since the 1940s that all the makers from Mora exported knives to the US. Sometimes with their own brand, sometimes with what is called a co-brand/private label. One good example is the Norse king knife that was made by several different makers always for the same US company. oldmora.blogspot.com/2021/06/NorseKing.html Here you can find some of the ones I found oldmora.blogspot.com/2020/03/mora-co-branding-private-label.html?m=1 Some of the makers from Mora, had worked in the US or were planing to migrate there. Others had relatives that worked there. For what I understood, one of the main occupation was wood management industry / forestry.
@@Oldmora I think its a fascinating subject. I've been collecting old Mora and Eskilstuna knives for a long time but didn't know about your website until this morning. Great job! Happy Easter!
@@MPiKMS72 I wonder if George Herters sold them? I can't remember because they closed up more than 40 years ago. Marbles was still king then and still knife of choice for the Scouts. I have multiple Moras as well as Puukos from Finland and Norway and I still prefer an old Marbles or Remington copy as an overall camp knife. The Remington, I am talking about is not the rifle company. This was a knife company that went out of business in the early 1950s. I am glad Sweden has not done what my favorite old US companies did, sell and have them made off shore.
About rusting; While in humid regions, everyday and night just strop your carbon blade using your hand palm as leather, one pass or two each side. Seniors may remember groomers used to do it on their straight razors. This keeps your carbon blade more than 90 percent rust resistant. Because of human body fat. Patina has different story; I like my carbon blades get patina over time. It increases resistance of blade to rusting. Even force patina like hanging the knife in boiling vinegar and endless other tricks are effective. Don’t forget to rinse the blade carefully and completely and then applying some mineral oil every one hour for like 7-10 times. This video is one of most beautiful knife talks I ever watched. Thank you very really much 🔪🪓
So cool huge fan of Cody ! I would love to meet him one day! I lived in North Idaho my who life and that's how I heard about Mora knives originally what I was a teen!
I already had Cody in very consideration but out encounter blow up my expectations. Imagine how I felt when I realized I was meeting him, in this side of the pond in Portugal, near my house in one of my favorite places in the town I live.
The day I learned about Mors and Cody was also the day I learned about Mora knives. I thought to myself "if they use them....they'll be good enough for me." Been using them for over 20 years now. I have never broken one and I give them away as gifts to people just starting out. They're excellent little knives. Mors was a great but humble man. I never got to meet him but I watched a lot of his vids and it comes through. I like to watch Cody too. Tells it like it is. Walks around in the middle of winter wearing nothing but three pair of socks on his feet and a tiny knife around his neck acting like the world is his oyster.... you know the man's got something on the ball. If you have a chance to learn from Cody and you don't take it it's your own loss. My two favorite Mora knives are the 510 and the Companion HD.
Grande vídeo e previlegio grande João, fantástica coberta com o grande Cody, um senhor no mundo do Bushcraft, obrigado por este grande vídeo, forte abraço 👌😉🤩🙏🇵🇹🇺🇸
I got my Mora Kniv when I was 12 in 1963. A birthday gift from my grandfather. It was a varnished birch handle in natural color. I lost it a short time later but it was very nice and I wish I had it today. I have a Bahco Laplander now.
I first encountered the Mora while working at a Boy Scout camp in WA in the early 90s. We had a Canadian troop come down and a number of their scouts and leaders used it and spoke highly of it. I still remember one endorsement; "Five bucks. Stick it in a tree and you can stand on it" It still wasn't common to see one for sale in the US in a sporting goods store at the time, dunno why Canada seems to have gotten them first. I next ran into them while in Bosnia in '97. I shared a camp with the Swedish army and I must say their equipment was top notch, and they all had Mora knives as a a basic utility knife, something that the US army did not see fit to issue. Most of us that had some outdoors background carried a big lockback and a Leatherman or Gerber multi-tool that we had purchased ourselves. I found a Mora that had been run over by a tank (literally) so the handle was crushed but the blade intact. I still have it and carry it on hikes (handle repaired) as a backup knife. I probably have about a dozen Moras now, for camping and for in the shop. I introduced my wife to camping and she prefers the aesthetics of a Mora over a more "tacticool" blade so she has an old one we found with a green plastic handle. A truly quintessential blade.
@@Oldmora It was the classic red birch handle Mora with the black plastic sheath. The exact same one I had last seen in the hands of Canadian Scouts. It wasn't issued as a "combat" knife, it was just recognized by the Swedish military that a soldier in the field would need a basic utility knife. Something that, again, I found frustrating that the US army didn't seem to comprehend.
We were initially issued M9 bayonets but after about a month in country too many guys (who had never been boy scouts or played in the woods I assume) were cutting themselves and they made us turn them back in to the armory for the rest of the deployment.
Cool. There is a log history of military issued knives since probably the 1920s oldmora.blogspot.com/2020/02/mora-knifes-in-military.html?m=1 They never made/issued a combat knife.
Cody and Matt share the some background they had some of the best teacher in this are back in the day. It would be interesting to see the two in the same show, but not in the Dual survival format.
I'm pretty positive that Cody can't stand Matt. The reason Matt told some producer he taught Cody his survival techniques. The producer told Cody, and he confronted Matt about it. Cody called Matt a POS after that. I believe the video is somewhere on RUclips.
@@kinghenry056 indeed. Here's a 2014 public statement from Cody about Matt (among other things) : "The survival skills community is very small. Many people have suggested that Matt Graham should have been paired with me. Unfortunately, I needed to end my friendship with Matt three years ago. He chose to claim that he was my “teacher” for several courses to a company in the hopes of getting a product endorsement from them. As this company had never heard of Matt, but had known me for years, they approached me to ask if this was true. It was not. I have a zero tolerance policy with people who knowingly compromise another’s credibility and experience to promote their own. I’m sorry it turned out this way. "
Cody knows is trade, is one of the masters alive today but I find difficult to say who is the best. There are many around the outdoor and survival skills that know a lot, people like Dave Holladay, Dave Wescot, Andre Francois Bourbeau etc
I used the same Mora #1 knife forever and other scandi’s, but recently(last 13yrs) I was introduced to convexed edged knives(bark river/Falkniven) for bushcraft and it’s just better in every way…The bark river gunny LT or gunny hunter LT is the best “Mora sized” easy carrying knife you can own. It’s almost the same size/shape, just a tad thicker, classic look/design, much more sturdy solid feeling being full tang(but also just a lil heavier), convex grind performs better and it’s easy to hone/sharpen in the field, and the handle is an absolute DREAM come true…Plus the steel(3V is what mine is in) options are WAY more advanced/better to fit ANY ones preferences… Yes it’s a tad pricey pricey(220$), but it’s a USA handmade heirloom quality knife with a no question lifetime warranty-it will last generations of hard field use, and anyone who gets one passed down to them will cherish it being a MUCH more higher quality knife-for ANY use, as soon as they pick it up…
I personally never could adapt to the convex grind from Falkniven. I have a F1 that probably seen the field a 2 or 3 times. Need to put more time on it to change the muscle memory from a scandi to a convex.
Dual Survival with Cody Lundin and Dave Cantenbury was the best survival team...
Me also. they were to duo that worked best on the show
And they are both Mora users and ambassadors in their ways! :)
@@Oldmora
Hands down. Watched those two seasons on a loop.
theres only 2 seasons of dual survival 1 & 2
@@drivendown84 me too, often
We need more Cody Lundin!!!!
Indeed
This is a comment for the interviewer. Gifting Cody a knife that he likes to use was pure class. I think that's a great way to show your gratitude to Cody for taking the time to share a little bit of his knowledge on your channel. And I like how you picked up a used knife and put your time and energy bringing it back to life. Also, adding your own handmade sheath was fantastic. Way to go!!
Thank you for this video.
thanks !!!! your kind words meant a lot !!
A friend gives you a knife - give the donor a coin - or it breaks the friendship
So refreshing to hear Cody talk common sense about knives.
Indeed. Many times talks about knives get overly clouded with irrelevant BS that has no practical value.
Cody Lundin was the reason I watched Duel survival, and also the reason I stopped watching when they screwed him over.
Just wish to see him again on TV with his own show
Same here. I watched because of him and stopped when they screwed him.
@@Oldmora i agree, would love to see him with his own format. not this forced drama type of shit.
Me to. Survival rambos are the worst...
@@glashausAimz2 with a liar
Cody does not mince words and he is spot on! Too many bushcraft RUclips stars that have very limited experience. Follow guys like Cody and you will be able to tease out the BS.
Great interview. Cody Lundin is a wealth of knowledge.
Thanks 💪
Great to see Cody is doing well... :)
Love Cody! I'm from Prescott AZ originally and took a class with him back in 2008 before he became famous on Discovery Channel. His lessons still stick with me to this day!
Very cool
Cody is such a nice guy. I saw him once in a restaurant. I briefly said hi and was fan and walked away. I didnt want to bother him. He made a point to come over to me and chat for a few minutes.
Not many would do that
Always interesting to listen to someone who actually has something to say🙏🏻
the man as a lot to say for sure. It was an wonderful experience
Lundin is a legend. I met him Dubai at the airport and yes, he was barefoot.
I also can confirm he was barefoot during the interview :)
Amazing.
I love it. He walks his path.
✌
@@Oldmora that actually answers my question
They don't let you on airplanes barefoot. Doofus probably had his sandals with him or your just lying.
Very interesting to listen to. I had the pleasure of meeting Cody at the Global Bushcraft Symposium 22 in Wales. He was as down to earth as in this video. I was aware of the work of Mors before the conference, but during it, I was really struck by how many practioners had learnt so much from him and expanded their skills under Mors tutelage. With Mors gone, it is the likes of Cody, Kelly Harlton and so many others that allow those not fortunate enough to have met him, share some of the knowledge.
Mors it of course the main inspiration for many of us but there a others names in the US/north america that don't get the recognition they deserve and were probably as import as Mors people like Larry D. Slson, Dave Wescoot, Dave Hollady, Tom Brown they all gave a huge contribution.
Cody's a great guy! Muito obrigado pela ótima entrevista, João!
Obrigado Maurício. Ja tinha uma boa impressão acerca do Cody Lundin. Mas o encontro superou todas as expectativas
Cody is such a cool guy. His books got me into bushcraft back in the day. This is a really great video!
I knows is stuff
Miss you old hippie! Hope you can do an hour long podcast weekly.
Really enjoyed this conversation, learned much , great to see you again Cody!
I his one that deserves all the exposer. The knows his stuff
Good to see Cody looking good and still sticking to his ways. Really enjoyed this!
Thanks
This was very cool thanks for having Cody on to talk about the knives.
Thank you for watching 🙏
this was a great conversation. it felt natural, no forced interaction or topics. lots of useful information and jokes too. respect!
Its was an honor and pleasure to meet Cody and have the opportunity to have this conversation.
Cody is a living legend,incredibly humble and high skilled human,he's personality is pure joy.☮
Could not agree more!!!
This was a great watch, thank you.
Thanks Richard 👍
Thank you for this! My favorite video of the year so far, and maybe even going back farther. Love it!
Wow thank you very much. This RUclips stuff is all new to me but I did like the experience and will try to develop it in the future with other interesting individual that are somehow connected to the Mora knife.
Thanks Cody good to c ya again!!!!!
Free Cody n should have definitely won that court decision!!
Great informative talk with Cody😊. I have several Mora knives, they are excellent. Cody is right about the skill of the user is the key. 😊
It’s the hands not the tool .
Absolutely.
I loved watching this, thank you.
Thanks. I am glad you liked it
Awesome interview!! I truly enjoyed this video 🙏🏽
Thanks a lot for the feedback. As you can imagine it was I that had all the pleasure to meet and talk with such a awesome person
Thank you for doing your interview with Cody, I enjoyed watching him on that survival show. He knows his knives. So cool.
Thanks Sheri
Thanks a million for sharing this video with Cody ! The Abo Dude rules !
My pleasure.
Great guy and so down to earth and no nonsense as well as straight to the point I like the man..
Indeed. And above all very friendly to deal. I loves the time I spent with him
Excellent interview, thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
What's stopping Cody Lundin & Dave Canterbury from starting a channel on RUclips & doing everything we loved about dual survival without any nonsense from executives? We loved Dual Survival. The first two seasons were exciting & entertaining as well as informative. I would love to see that again. The chemistry may not have been there for the two of them but to us they were one hell of a team.
I do not think that is going to happen. have you heard about Cody latest project ? thesurvivalshow.com/
@@Oldmora I have not! Appreciate the link, I'll check it out when I get out of work though.
Probably bc Cody didn't appreciate Dave bullshiting his resume.
@@GertTown Their survival style was unique but effective. I liked the contrast personally.
@@OldmoraCody's new show is great ! I'm really looking forward to watching season 2 once it's released !
This video is a gem.
Great talk by both of you.
Excellent 👌.
Many thanks. It’s all Cody. I was only there to fill in the gaps.
@@Oldmora
You did really well.
Interviewers are not all equal.
Cody’s temperament and calm approach to things made him my favorite. I’d love to see Dave and Cody do another series. They had great chemistry. I quite watching when Dave left. Did not like Dave’s replacement. And I love mora knives!
Don’t think that is going to happen 😉 but would love to see Cody with his own show
thank you for the interview
Thanks
Cody is the best ❤
Really liked this video. It is very good to see Cody again.
Thanks 👍
What an important history lesson revealed in this brief interview with Cody Lundin. The Mora #1 Knife is one of the most iconic knives in the camp craft world. A simple design, a set of good materials and carbon steel components, easy to maintain and keep a sharp edge. But most importantly, they cut every time you need them to. Cody is an excellent teacher and has a great common man approach to sharing information. Good interview! Thank you.
Thanks. Cody is one of the best.
Got my first Mora after the dual survival debut thanks to Cody. Been using them for YEARS now. 🤘🏻
The classic ?
@ indeed. I can’t believe I had never heard of them beforehand. They are great knives for their intended purpose and very fairly priced.
Good to see Cody again. Thanks for the video
Thanks you 🙏
Cody is a master communicator.
Indeed
Nice to see Cody
👍 It is refreshing to listen to Cody (or, read his books) because he simply and directly brings the reality of common sense to the conversation. As a boy my father, the mechanic, told me it is the mechanic not the wrench that maintains machinery.
Wise words from you father.
@@Oldmora I took 2 classes w/ Cody when I lived in Prescott, AZ. Always enjoy listening & learning from him. When did you record this video? Where did you record it (AZ)? Oh, and thanks for your Mora knives history comments, I found them very interesting.
@@ROE1300 It was recorded last February 2023 , in Portugal :)
@@ROE1300 He is a great teacher and communicator. I can only wish to have the possibility one day to cross the big pond take some of his classes
@@Oldmora Thank you.
I lived in Sweden for a few years after I turned 18. Many construction workers carried two moras on their belt. I started using them, not knowing what they were capable of, before I got into wilderness survival and living skills. Great knives.
Indeed they are. Did you carried two of the same or one carbon and another stainless ?
@@Oldmora two carbon. One was a backup in case the other was compromised.
I had the pleasure of making a gift for Cody and he sent me a letter of thanks. He has taught me a lot of secrets for survival.
Muito obrigado you too Cody! its always a pleasure hear Cody speaks his words of widson and knowledge
Thanks. I only wish I had more time with him to explorer other subjects.
Cody is the MAN..Real skills..no joke..
it is
I attended a course taught by Cody Lundin in 2020 and he had Mora Classics for sale and he also had customized Mora Companions with his logo on them. Most of the students including me already had Mora knives.
Great video. Great information and content. A pleasure to watch. Thank you
Thanks
Cody deserves his own show
Indeed
Cody is the most humble and capable man you will ever meet
Meeting him didn’t disappoint me that for sure 🙏
Hi Cody! We're waiting for more adventures 🤠🤠
Indeed
Awesome video! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
I have a Morakniv I got, the only knife I got online, after watching this Dutch channel, that did knife reviews. Years ago.
Cody is the best !! Wish he had his own survival series. Really enjoyed the host too, very genuine 💙
@@2434-k3l Cody already as his own show that he produces. Search on the web for “The Survival Show with Cody Lundin”
As a Boy Scout in Canada in the late 1950's & early 1960's, I can attest to the fact that I owned a Mora Scout knife with the double guard. One of my "patches" was for me to make my own leather sheath for that knife from the Tandy kit.
Sweet. Do you still have it? Do you remember the maker?
@Oldmora :- I believe it was a Mora. This was about 65 years ago and interestingly I still have the leather sheath, but sadly not the knife.
Cody has such a nice and relaxed Voice 😊
Fun video men! Swedish American Mora fan here too. Cheers and thanks.🌲🌵🔥
Awesome! Thank you!
Cody is amazing… I got hooked on dual survival because of him and Dave Canterbury… I’m gonna try to take a course from him this year if I can afford the trip 😊
As a knife reviewer and a survival lover… I really enjoyed watching this … my favorite things together
Cody is awesome and a real nice guy!. Just wish i was on that side of the pond to get a course with him.
So great to meet you with Cody. So good to see you all.
thanks!! It was a an absolute pleasure to meet Cody and spend some hours with him!.
Im from Finland and grew up using puukko's and mora's, maybe even more of the moras since those where cheap and more available. How ever when i was young i always used to drool over the big American knives i saw on tv the Bucks and KA-bars then i grew up and the magic of internet was available to me so i ordered one... it was Buck nighthawk, first time i used it to carve wood i was like 🤯 it felt like using a kitchen knife 😂.... the "scandi" knives are so much better at wood work. I had to dug up my Mora #1 and #2' to fiddle with during this interview... the old red handle Moras used to come with thicker spine and always with tang comming out of the handle. The new versions are nice too but back in the 60's and 50's moras are just amazing i still see them around alot here. Some of my relatives have used them at work for decades and those are now like ice picks
I was the opposite; in south-eastern Europe, the choices were primarily confined to hunting-style knives made in Portugal that were clones after Solingen hunting knives and a lot of Bowie-style knives made in Spain. When my father gave me a Frost 700 in the middle of the 1990s, it was a pretty "weird object," but eye opining. The old ones are still my favored carries even if the new ones are really excellent (and the steel has never been as good as now).
@@Oldmora your Frost 700 reminded me that i actually carried a Mora 640 Viking my whole time in the Army... kinda funny but they just work...
Was it issued ?
@@Oldmora no it wasn't there aren't any issued knives apart from the bayonet and even that is for only some units. I served in 2008 and back then majority carried traditional finnish puukko's.
Gotta love Cody. He's the Real Deal
Indeed
/it he can’t make a living, looks like a hobo!
I live in tropical rainforest on a homestead and my Mora have developed patina that protect the blade. Forget Mora, I also use local made choppers on my homestead that are low alloy steels in 5160/9260 that rust and still don't have issues. I've also lived near the sea and managed with low alloy/plain carbon blades. IF I go diving or fishing I take stainless blades (also prefer stainless for folders) but otherwise I really don't need to bother so much about rust.
Indeed, with proper care, you can use carbon in almost every environment.
I found out about Mora knives all about myself when I picked up my first Mora knife locally. It was a Premier just like Cody's. I knew shortly after that they did not make it as there were other knives around with the "Premier" name on it. I then started finding KJ knives and to this day KJ is my fav brand and I still have several. Today in Canada, you can't even take an all rubber Cold Steel training knife on a plane. I see many interesting stuff at airport sales. Mora are often sold at Marine stores in Canada, you also find carbon Green River there which is odd in a salt water environment. Just keep carbon dry, I have used Green River carbon in the kitchen for 30 years, they are grey in color but no pits and still keep an edge.
Very cool. Have you seen this article about KJE oldmora.blogspot.com/2020/12/kjeriksson.html?
Here in Europe, I know people that had problems with a nail clipper, that although not prohibit some customs officers goes all crazy when they see them
Wonderful article!
@tombryant6061 thanks
Mal vi o vídeo, guardei-o, para poder assistir quando tivesse mais tempo, para poder usufruir e "beber" conhecimento, e que belo serão passei eu. Muito obrigado João por esta maravilha.
Foi uma manha espectacular. O Cody é 5 estrelas
Cody was the reason I purchased my first Mora knife. I was curious about the red handled knife hanging on Cody's neck and later that night I was watching the knife home shopping network and they were being sold for 10$ and I snatched it up! That was 15 years ago and my Mora #2 is still going strong minus the tip. Now that I see that they are sold out a lot of the time and go for 30-40$ on some sites I would have told my 23 year old self to purchase 3 mora.
@@The5150owl “home shopping network” is like a tv channel with shopping advertisement right ? I never heard of Mira knives being sold that way.
I love mora knives, but growing up in rural colorado i grew up on the sharpfinger and buck 110. I love all 3 and can use all three. Seems like 3.5 to 4 inches with a fine point does everything one needs.
I forgot case trapper.
the buck 110 is quint essential in US. For example, in Mora Sweden, there is no tradition of folding knives only fixed knives.
Excelente entrevista! Saudações mateira da Suécia 🇸🇪
Obrigado Rodrigo. Um abraço de Portugal
Cody was a cool head, enjoyed his methodical thought to solve issues
I also like is simples and no BS approach
That was a great discussion.
Thanks. The please and honor was all mine. Cody is such an amazing person.
A small Mora knife was my first knife in life. It's common knowledge here in Norway that iron of superior quality is extracted from the iron mine in Sweden. This has been the basis for the cheap but good quality knives Mora have made for almost 200 years.
It’s very interesting to see the how the difference cultures all over the world, back then had different preferences, you guys up north always preferred fixed blades while for me for example, in the south of Europe, the folding knife was the king, that was affordable and every man and many cases the child would have one on his pocket.
@@Oldmora Here in the north the knife was mostly used for gutting and cleaning fish. A messy task with a lot of blood an gunk. A fixed blade is much easyer to clean. A pocket knife not so, an will over time just rust and feil in the end.
@@Oldmora Up here in the north, we use the knife mostly in connection with fishing and hunting. There will be a lot of blood and gunk. A fixed blade knife is far easier to clean. But a folding knife will get full of blood and salt water and be very impractical to use. It will quickly just rust and stall.
Way to go Joao and Cody 👊
Tack sa mycket Sverker :)
Mora has been widely available in my country (Holland) like all my life. I bought my first two 50+ years ago when I was 10/11 years old and still have them. On my first Swedish canoe trip some 30 years ago, reaching civilization again, we stopped at a dock and asked the landowner for permission to camp on his land (Allemansrätten) and of course he agreed. I carried a Mora 511 (with cut off fingerguard along with a big knife and machete). I noticed the landowner had the same 511's lying around basically everywhere some really rusty so I asked how he would clean and sharpen them. He laughed and told me he bought a box and if they became all dull or rusty he just bought a new box. (I also found out that in Sweden a Dutch beer makes a really good trade item or gift).
When I founded the Dutch Bushcraft Association back in 2011 I did choose the Hultafors GK for instructors and students because you can baton on that knife all day long with no failure.
I consider the budget Mora's or Hultafors knives as the 'all you need' knives and the rest as 'you want' knives. Even last year (at age 60) visiting Thailand 3 times I brought my SAK/multitool, a Mora 546 or Hultafors RFR and bought a local machete (some 6 euro) there. Customs will almost always allow an simpe SAK/multitool into the country as a backpacker tool and Thailand did also allow my Mora/Hultafors but even if they would confiscate the Mora/Hultafors I would have lost some 7 euro. Of course all knives and multitools in your check in luggage.
Regarding the interview I fully agree about the vision on the all you need knives but for where I live and travel I prefer the stainless ones for food prep.
In Sweden you can buy the basic model in buckets of 50. The handyman use them as discardable blade, and many times they carry two of them, so if one get dull that just pick the other one and they don’t have to stop
@@Oldmora Yep. That's what I mean. For them they are disposable blades. Still they are good blades and they could re-use them.
Great discussions, love that 100 year old Mora
thanks
@@Oldmora this was one of the best interviews/talks I have ever seen
@@bowdiersackett6433 many thanks for you kind words
@@Oldmora
Same thought here.
Excellent interview.
Many many thanks 🙏
Knives are extremely important and useful. They also get overly complicated. A useful sheath is just as important as the knife. Love this content!
Indeed.
I've had a Mora Knife since the 90's. I think its the Classic No. 1. With the red handle. I now have two Mora Heavy Duty Companion knives. And they are great blades.
Great video guys. Thanks.
Thanks you
i don't know, i just love cody. could watch him read shampoo-bottles.
on top of that, he walks the walk. not many in the scene do that anymore.
And I would add, very friendly
@@Oldmora absolutely, that and his incredibly bad jokes are the main-constituents of his charm, i think.
Loved the video and interview
Thanks 🙏
Enjoyed the interview, thank you for sharing. Cody is my favorite hippie and I mean that with all due respect.
Mine too :)
Great interview. Mora knives were sold in the US at least from the 1950s in Wisconsin. I have come across old sporting goods store adds and you will see not only what assume is the red handle as it is black & white but also the traditional scout knife. Probably as there is a large Swedish population as well as in Minnesota, Illinois and Iowa. Quite a few Finns in northern Wisconsin, the UP as well as Minnesota. Post WW2 many Swedish decendents returned to Sweden to see their families as US currency exchange rates were good. Many of my family went there in the late 1960s. My grandfather was born there and my grandmother although born in the US, her parents had just settled here. There were rural areas called little Sweden because of so many settleing in one area. Same with Finns, Danes and Norwegians.
This is true. They certainly were around here. You see them in a lot of old American catalogs. You also had Swedes bringing them back, my grandfather brought one back from a trip back to Sweden and gave it to my parent's for me when I was born.
They weren't particularly well known though, whenever I used that Mora in the 1980s people would ask what it was.
Since the 1940s that all the makers from Mora exported knives to the US. Sometimes with their own brand, sometimes with what is called a co-brand/private label. One good example is the Norse king knife that was made by several different makers always for the same US company. oldmora.blogspot.com/2021/06/NorseKing.html
Here you can find some of the ones I found oldmora.blogspot.com/2020/03/mora-co-branding-private-label.html?m=1
Some of the makers from Mora, had worked in the US or were planing to migrate there. Others had relatives that worked there. For what I understood, one of the main occupation was wood management industry / forestry.
@@Oldmora I think its a fascinating subject. I've been collecting old Mora and Eskilstuna knives for a long time but didn't know about your website until this morning. Great job! Happy Easter!
@@MPiKMS72 I wonder if George Herters sold them? I can't remember because they closed up more than 40 years ago. Marbles was still king then and still knife of choice for the Scouts. I have multiple Moras as well as Puukos from Finland and Norway and I still prefer an old Marbles or Remington copy as an overall camp knife. The Remington, I am talking about is not the rifle company. This was a knife company that went out of business in the early 1950s. I am glad Sweden has not done what my favorite old US companies did, sell and have them made off shore.
About rusting;
While in humid regions, everyday and night just strop your carbon blade using your hand palm as leather, one pass or two each side. Seniors may remember groomers used to do it on their straight razors. This keeps your carbon blade more than 90 percent rust resistant. Because of human body fat.
Patina has different story; I like my carbon blades get patina over time. It increases resistance of blade to rusting. Even force patina like hanging the knife in boiling vinegar and endless other tricks are effective. Don’t forget to rinse the blade carefully and completely and then applying some mineral oil every one hour for like 7-10 times.
This video is one of most beautiful knife talks I ever watched. Thank you very really much 🔪🪓
Thanks for your kind word.
Like you said, taking care of a carbon steel knife is easy, you just need to be careful not to store the knife wet.
Boiling vinegar creates acetic acid vapor.
@@laurenb6837 let’s forget the theory and test it once
So cool huge fan of Cody ! I would love to meet him one day! I lived in North Idaho my who life and that's how I heard about Mora knives originally what I was a teen!
I already had Cody in very consideration but out encounter blow up my expectations. Imagine how I felt when I realized I was meeting him, in this side of the pond in Portugal, near my house in one of my favorite places in the town I live.
Un diálogo muy interesante y ameno, gracias.
Muchas gracias
Cody is so wise
It is
Cody is such a treasure ❤
I could not agree more.
Still have my first mora, got it aged 6, now im 40;)
What was the model ? A scout ?
The day I learned about Mors and Cody was also the day I learned about Mora knives. I thought to myself "if they use them....they'll be good enough for me." Been using them for over 20 years now. I have never broken one and I give them away as gifts to people just starting out. They're excellent little knives. Mors was a great but humble man. I never got to meet him but I watched a lot of his vids and it comes through. I like to watch Cody too. Tells it like it is. Walks around in the middle of winter wearing nothing but three pair of socks on his feet and a tiny knife around his neck acting like the world is his oyster.... you know the man's got something on the ball. If you have a chance to learn from Cody and you don't take it it's your own loss.
My two favorite Mora knives are the 510 and the Companion HD.
right on !!!
Cody is probably one of the best all around outdoors survival, Bushcrafter, with bare minimum things to stay alive that I've seen.
He is part of the next generation of grand masters of outdoor living skills
Grande vídeo e previlegio grande João, fantástica coberta com o grande Cody, um senhor no mundo do Bushcraft, obrigado por este grande vídeo, forte abraço 👌😉🤩🙏🇵🇹🇺🇸
Grande Hugo. Obrigado pelas tuas palavras
I got my Mora Kniv when I was 12 in 1963. A birthday gift from my grandfather. It was a varnished birch handle in natural color. I lost it a short time later but it was very nice and I wish I had it today. I have a Bahco Laplander now.
do you remember the model? a scout maybe (doube guard) ?
Cody kicks butt.
Really nice dude. 👍
Happy to ear you, Maestro.
Take care, Ciao a presto.
Many thanks!
That's "Muito Obrigado" Cody !!!
I first encountered the Mora while working at a Boy Scout camp in WA in the early 90s. We had a Canadian troop come down and a number of their scouts and leaders used it and spoke highly of it. I still remember one endorsement; "Five bucks. Stick it in a tree and you can stand on it" It still wasn't common to see one for sale in the US in a sporting goods store at the time, dunno why Canada seems to have gotten them first. I next ran into them while in Bosnia in '97. I shared a camp with the Swedish army and I must say their equipment was top notch, and they all had Mora knives as a a basic utility knife, something that the US army did not see fit to issue. Most of us that had some outdoors background carried a big lockback and a Leatherman or Gerber multi-tool that we had purchased ourselves. I found a Mora that had been run over by a tank (literally) so the handle was crushed but the blade intact. I still have it and carry it on hikes (handle repaired) as a backup knife. I probably have about a dozen Moras now, for camping and for in the shop. I introduced my wife to camping and she prefers the aesthetics of a Mora over a more "tacticool" blade so she has an old one we found with a green plastic handle. A truly quintessential blade.
Do you remember what model the Swedish army had? The mora 2000 maybe?
@@Oldmora It was the classic red birch handle Mora with the black plastic sheath. The exact same one I had last seen in the hands of Canadian Scouts. It wasn't issued as a "combat" knife, it was just recognized by the Swedish military that a soldier in the field would need a basic utility knife. Something that, again, I found frustrating that the US army didn't seem to comprehend.
We were initially issued M9 bayonets but after about a month in country too many guys (who had never been boy scouts or played in the woods I assume) were cutting themselves and they made us turn them back in to the armory for the rest of the deployment.
Cool.
There is a log history of military issued knives since probably the 1920s oldmora.blogspot.com/2020/02/mora-knifes-in-military.html?m=1
They never made/issued a combat knife.
no knives ? That is crazy. I guess many had they’re own ?
Cody sempre foi meu preferido
me too
Cody and Canterbury had great chemistry on the show. Joe is the one that Cody couldn’t take. I’d like to see Cody and Matt. Hippie power.
Cody and Matt share the some background they had some of the best teacher in this are back in the day. It would be interesting to see the two in the same show, but not in the Dual survival format.
I'm pretty positive that Cody can't stand Matt. The reason Matt told some producer he taught Cody his survival techniques. The producer told Cody, and he confronted Matt about it. Cody called Matt a POS after that. I believe the video is somewhere on RUclips.
@@kinghenry056 indeed. Here's a 2014 public statement from Cody about Matt (among other things) : "The survival skills community is very small. Many people have suggested that Matt Graham should have been paired with me. Unfortunately, I needed to end my friendship with Matt three years ago. He chose to claim that he was my “teacher” for several courses to a company in the hopes of getting a product endorsement from them. As this company had never heard of Matt, but had known me for years, they approached me to ask if this was true. It was not. I have a zero tolerance policy with people who knowingly compromise another’s credibility and experience to promote their own. I’m sorry it turned out this way. "
Cody Hands down was the most legit bushcraft expert out there.. up there with les miles.. Cody you are an inspiration my man !
Cody knows is trade, is one of the masters alive today but I find difficult to say who is the best. There are many around the outdoor and survival skills that know a lot, people like Dave Holladay, Dave Wescot, Andre Francois Bourbeau etc
Great quotes come from greater people.
Indeed!
I used the same Mora #1 knife forever and other scandi’s, but recently(last 13yrs) I was introduced to convexed edged knives(bark river/Falkniven) for bushcraft and it’s just better in every way…The bark river gunny LT or gunny hunter LT is the best “Mora sized” easy carrying knife you can own. It’s almost the same size/shape, just a tad thicker, classic look/design, much more sturdy solid feeling being full tang(but also just a lil heavier), convex grind performs better and it’s easy to hone/sharpen in the field, and the handle is an absolute DREAM come true…Plus the steel(3V is what mine is in) options are WAY more advanced/better to fit ANY ones preferences… Yes it’s a tad pricey pricey(220$), but it’s a USA handmade heirloom quality knife with a no question lifetime warranty-it will last generations of hard field use, and anyone who gets one passed down to them will cherish it being a MUCH more higher quality knife-for ANY use, as soon as they pick it up…
I personally never could adapt to the convex grind from Falkniven. I have a F1 that probably seen the field a 2 or 3 times. Need to put more time on it to change the muscle memory from a scandi to a convex.
Cody rules‼️✌️
It is awesome!!!