How to properly carry this Mora

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Harayasu

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Most of my fixed knives, some Mora's included, have a loop on the sheath through which you can put the belt. But one of my Mora's has the construction showed in the picture below:

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I use a piece of paracord that is put through the small hole and then looped around the belt like this:

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But what is the proper way to carry this Mora?
 
What an appropriate thread here for me as it happens.. I'v been out fishing and had my favorite knife for that purpose hanging of my belt and waders today while tramping through the swamp..

.. The following Scandi grind type traditional fixed blade was custom hand made for me by my good blade brother and blade forums member NirreBosse from half way around the world a while back. I wish she still looked this good.. :)

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I have always utilized the front loop while in use hanging off my waders or other buttons, snaps or other fasteners as needed


Anthony
 
I have a Mora in a leather tube sheath that has a similiar tab, but its not for attaching to anything for carrying purposes. The tab is a keeper, the hole goes over a small knob on the end of the handle. The sheath also has a leather loop for belt carry.
 
I do believe the Swedes sew a large button to the outside of their pocket. The button goes through that slit which is usually too narrow for a standard belt. So the knife and sheath are buttoned on.
 
Yeah...Moras are meant to affix to a button. That is the traditional Swedish way. Even on some of the plastic sheaths with two belt slots, you'll see one with a funny top for alternative button carry.
 
Many scandinavian worktrousers for carpentars like snickers, blåkläder or Fristads has a button on the rigth leg, and some straps or a little pocket to put the knifesheath into when its secured by the button. On the oldstyle bibs the button is on the chest. Seldom a carpentar carry his knife in the belt. work Knifes like Mora or Hultafors most often has a way to fasten it with a button. For ex the mora 2000 has a lether loop but if you look carefully it has a slit on the backside of the loop that fits a button. More obvious is the Hultafors hantverkarkniv that has its main posibility for the button and the alternative is aimed for the belt. Its wery easy to reach for a knife that you carry between your hip and knee and it doesnt get in the way when you climb ladders or do other simular things.

You dont have those bonebuttons on your carpentars klothes?
Since I have posted earlyer I understand that traditions make us use tools diferently and that the knife isnt the central carpentars tool everywhere. Here its as important to carry on the body as the hammer or ruler.

Anthony, Im glad to hear that that knife came to use. did the reed bets coulour stay or did it bleed out?
Interesting enough I this summer realy discovered how nice the trapper you sent me works as a fishing knife. I have had a lot of use for it this summer as the fishing went well.

Bosse
 
No, we don't have such buttons on our working clothes here. It is also very, very unusual here to see people having a fixed blade knife attached to their pants or belt.

More usual is a multitool being carried on the belt and/or a folding knife in the pocket. Here in the northern part of the Netherlands people on the countryside used to carry a folding knife with wooden handle for work around the farm and on the land. Some of them still do. A while ago I posted a thread here on the German made Friedrich Herder working knife. That's the kind of knife my father and grandfather carried in their pockets.

Here, a knife like a Mora would be considered a tool for camping, fishing and hunting by most people. In Sweden I noticed carpenters, gardeners and others carrying a Mora at work. I think fixed blade knives are far more integrated in the northern European culture than over here in the central parts.
 
What I have done is buy a small caribina.
Not a climbing one, just a cheap work type

Slide it on your belt and then clip the button hole on to the carabina
 
I actually use this method to carry sheath knives as danglers

I cannot carry a fixed blade in public, so when I am working and want a sheath knife, I have to take it off my belt.
So what I have done is put a split-ring in the belt loop and attach the ring to the carabiner slipped thru my belt.
So I can easily take off the knife

I have put split-rings on many of my sheaths.
 
I work in an office and mostly wear jeans and a slipjoint.
But for my holidays and evnings I often wear Carpentars trousers. They are strong and as I still building my house or work on the farm or by the cottage in the mountains this is natural clothes to wear. I also use them sometimes when hunting, (Green ones) or fishing. I realy like the posibility to have padded knees. Soft to work on knee and makes them watertight in that area. I also like the posibility to have a fixed blade workingknife on my leg. If I carry this throusers of also wilderness type of clothes most no one in nothern Sweden thinks that its peculiar to carry a knife on them. I have this summer weared my carpentars throusers with an orange hultafors to the foodstore, downtown and even to the bank. I f I did this at evningtime or to work it would be locked upon as peciliaur but otherwise if you look as a craftsman people relice the knife is a part of your equipment.

Short report from Östersund

Bosse
 
NirreBosse said:
Many scandinavian worktrousers for carpentars like snickers, blåkläder or Fristads has a button on the rigth leg, and some straps or a little pocket to put the knifesheath into when its secured by the button. On the oldstyle bibs the button is on the chest. Seldom a carpentar carry his knife in the belt. work Knifes like Mora or Hultafors most often has a way to fasten it with a button. For ex the mora 2000 has a lether loop but if you look carefully it has a slit on the backside of the loop that fits a button. More obvious is the Hultafors hantverkarkniv that has its main posibility for the button and the alternative is aimed for the belt. Its wery easy to reach for a knife that you carry between your hip and knee and it doesnt get in the way when you climb ladders or do other simular things.

You dont have those bonebuttons on your carpentars klothes?
Since I have posted earlyer I understand that traditions make us use tools diferently and that the knife isnt the central carpentars tool everywhere. Here its as important to carry on the body as the hammer or ruler.

Anthony, Im glad to hear that that knife came to use. did the reed bets coulour stay or did it bleed out?
Interesting enough I this summer realy discovered how nice the trapper you sent me works as a fishing knife. I have had a lot of use for it this summer as the fishing went well.

Bosse
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Howdy Bosse,

The red dye on the handle bled just a wee tiny little bit the first few times I had her fishing with me here in the tropical Florida Sun and inclement weather.. After that though the handle's red dye stabilized real nice and evenly and took on a beautiful shiny look and a great comfortable grippy type feel to it. I couldn't be more pleased with this Scandi-Grind you made for me, my friend! :D. I absolutely love the knife for all my freshwater and salt water fishing adventures. She is perfect for delicate work like boning and filleting but is quite stout enough for cutting bait, leader lines, and some of my custom Carolina riggings and Florida riggings and other more hard use chores on the boat and swamp stomp'n.. This Labor Day Holiday weekend she is going Frog Gigging with me and my pals as well, and I'll see if she is up to that challenge.. To say I'm confident of the pre-performance she'll bring us is understating it. :thumbup: :)


Thanks again Bosse for such a wonderful and useful cutting tool!


Anthony

PS {I am so pleased you are getting good use out of the Trapper for fishing tasks as well. The Trapper pattern is by far my most favorite traditional pocket knife slipjoint pattern for fishing and hunting.}
 
Anthony.
Interesting to have a knife all on the otherside the world. As I have read a lot of what you wrote I felt confident that a carbon blade would work great for you although the climate seams a little ruff for a non stainless knife. But on the other hand, the men who lived there in past times coped fine with carbon steel.
I can only wagely understand how your fishing is. Frog jigging for ex is unknown to me.

I fish for throut in the small mountain streems and for its reed sibling in the mountain lakes. A little pike and bass to in the lakes in the wast woods of my childhoodland, but mainly I fish in the mountains as I so like to be in that enwironment.
My life is dewided between hunting as I do in the large woods of jamtland and fishing in Lappland mountains. The fish seldom weights over 1 kg so the trapper has a great size for the work. I have used smaller slipjoints also and they cut as well I suppose but the trapper has a good size for the hand. Tomorrow I go for a week of moosehunt and the trapper will be my companion. I also used it last year and it was terrific for opening hide, sliped through as a warm knife in butter. it nowadays has a modified clippoint instead of the spay to get a point but its spayblade belly still is the same. As Im a lefty I have thought about a making a new nailnick on the opposide side of the spayblade as non of the blades is suitable to pinch open.
I like the Truesharp for a usersteel. Keeps its edge for a while and sharpens up easy. Mabye not as sharming as a patina CV, but no big drawback eather. Stainless has its advantages too. Living in Sweden one cant be too picky about such small differenses. It makes me lycky to have the opportunity to even own a caseknife let alone the four ones I have.
I also must say I realy enjoy having scales of jigged bone on a knife like this trapper. Its a beautiful material. Never even knew it existed as a handlematerial until I came in contact with this forums.

Bosse
 
Thats a beautiful knife you made. are you still making them, and would you consider making one for me?

NirreBosse said:
I work in an office and mostly wear jeans and a slipjoint.
But for my holidays and evnings I often wear Carpentars trousers. They are strong and as I still building my house or work on the farm or by the cottage in the mountains this is natural clothes to wear. I also use them sometimes when hunting, (Green ones) or fishing. I realy like the posibility to have padded knees. Soft to work on knee and makes them watertight in that area. I also like the posibility to have a fixed blade workingknife on my leg. If I carry this throusers of also wilderness type of clothes most no one in nothern Sweden thinks that its peculiar to carry a knife on them. I have this summer weared my carpentars throusers with an orange hultafors to the foodstore, downtown and even to the bank. I f I did this at evningtime or to work it would be locked upon as peciliaur but otherwise if you look as a craftsman people relice the knife is a part of your equipment.

Short report from Östersund

Bosse
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I dont think that this is the way to discuss a thing like that here. But thank you for the kind words about the knife.

That said I building my house, garage and workshop since last year and that takes all my free time. I have done one knife this year and that was a smaller sized blade for my 8 year old son. I have never made knifes for sale and the one you read about here was gifts between friends because of we wanted to try knifes the other one liked. I hope one day when the workshop is built and the boys a little older to do more handwork as the workshop is built to suit me and my needs.

As for the hultafors I think you should try one. My favorit is Hultafors "Hantverkskniv" with the orange handle and carbon steel. I realy like how the handle is made, bouth material and form. I carry mine in the button of the trousers while working and think that the sheat isnt realy suited for the belt. I have done a bushkraft sheat with lether based around the plastic sheat witch makes it a little more elegant and also gives it a better loop for the belt.

Ps
I dont know if Friend is the apropriate word on a person one never meet in real life but I cant find another word that deskribes the kind of relations this forum sometimes creates.

Bosse
 
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