All About Pocket Knives

Both knife and sheath appear mint or nearly so. Congratulations!

Thanks QS...It's a pretty nice one.


Tim

jerryd6818 wrote:"Stainless" huh. For some reason I had it stuck in my head they are all carbon steel. Hmmm. What are your first impressions, Cutty?

Prior to last night I had little knowledge about Mora knives. As a knife nut, anything sharp at a garage sale, flea market of rummy sale always cathces my eye. Our church recently put on one and in the piles of clothes, knick nacks and fluff there was a big walnut block with 6 kitchen knives. For $1.00 ! ! - - oh what the heck. Well later back home at our house, my sweetie chided me "Why in the world did you buy more knives? You already have dozens." Me - - "It is a man's disease Honey"!

Well The part of the set were Japanese cutlery but then here is this "orphan" - - an ugly wood handled knife. Heavy thick blade with serrations, (fish scaler?) on the spine. While just washing and oiling the blade I see a faint etch. Closer inspection with a glass reveals KJE in script. Above that in a tiny "banner" the word MORA. Under the KJE the word SWEDEN. So I start the google digger and finally got to wiki.

" " "There are two main styles of Mora knife in common use today; the newer synthetic-handled varieties and the so-called "classic" style, made in a large variety of sizes. The Mora of Sweden company uses blades of 12C27 stainless steel, UHB-20C carbon steel, Triflex steel, or very hard (HRC61) carbon steel laminated between softer alloyed steel. Mora knives were mostly produced by the "KJ Eriksson" and "Frosts Knivfabrik" companies; they merged their brands in 2008 under the "Mora of Sweden" brand." " "

The "orphan" has grown a family . . . I have distant relatives in that region of Sweden and while on a visit to family there twenty years or so ago, one of my cousins had given me two single blade folders with yellow plastic handles and carbon (black etched) steel blades. Sadly, one of them is at the bottom of Lake Toledo Bend and the other safely in my pile. I carried it for a while but it got retired years ago. I had never taken time to do any research on Mora knives but when this ugly blade came to me I just had to get my feet wet and find it's history. Now the "orphan" has a home. The second pic shows very faintly, the etched name and description.

This knive was made by Haugrud of Norway. The sheath is made of pewter.

Test pic of my new BFF

Them ringnecks sure are pretty birds

Nice lookin' rooster!

orvet wrote:Nice lookin' rooster!

Tasty too.

Here are my two newest ones: An Anton Wingen and a Kershaw 1014L.Price with shipping worked out to about $17 each.

Hi,
What make is the shotgun? I have never owned a side-by-side; always have wanted a pre-64 Mod. 21 Win. but it would take a barrel of money to buy one now. I grew up and still live in northern Kansas and shot my first stubbleduck when I was nine with a mod. 37 Win .410. It got the the point around 25 years ago that I decided I'd killed enough of them and quit hunting. Anymore, the pheasants are basically gone from these parts and it's rare to see one while driving. Way more deer and wild turkeys in these parts than there are pheasants. I'm of a mind that the turkeys compete for area with the pheasants and they are winning that fight. Which is too bad for future generations. I do my bird huntin' at the meat case in the grocery any more, but, once upon a time in the west.....

Nice bird, Eric

I'm of a mind that the turkeys compete for area with the pheasants and they are winning that fight. Which is too bad for future generations. I d

ole-mudd, you may be right on the turkeys out competing the pheasents. I have not been thru the mid-west in years. Do the farmers leave cover around the edges of their fields where pheasants might hang out? Just courious.

I picked this one up in cottage country the other day...a great way to end the day after raking leaves, and winterizing the cottage. 1981

A very very nice looking knife and sheath.

Thanks QS...I saw this a couple of months ago in an antique shop and wasn't sure about it. When I got home I did some research and printed out all the years for the scrimshaw patterns and determined it was 1981. When I returned, the knife was still there so I picked it up...in looking at it more closely I saw that the date was inscribed after the signature...lol...I need better reading glasses.
PS...the guy also had all kinds of knives like yours above from Norway but he wants $150 for them. They are really nice, I'll have to get the name next time I'm there.

Lawrence wrote:PS...the guy also had all kinds of knives like yours above from Norway but he wants $150 for them. They are really nice, I'll have to get the name next time I'm there.

I made the mistake of thinking because the Scandinavian knives look simple and don’t look fancy or expensive that they were cheap, i.e. low quality, knives.
Experience has taught me the exact opposite; in terms of most cutting power for the dollar they are one of the best knife bargains on the planet today, IMO!

The humble plastic handle Mora selling for less the $15 on ebay, including shipping, is one of the biggest sleepers on the knife market today!


Years ago my best friend and fishing buddy of the last 40 years gave me a knife he had picked up on a trip to Norway. He had used it for several years and it was quite dull. When I sharpened it up, I was amazed at the quality of the steel in it.
It is a Brusletto and I think the pattern is a Fiskekniv or fish knife.

orvet wrote:

Years ago my best friend and fishing buddy of the last 40 years gave me a knife he had picked up on a trip to Norway. He had used it for several years and it was quite dull. When I sharpened it up, I was amazed at the quality of the steel in it.
It is a Brusletto and I think the pattern is a Fiskekniv or fish knife.

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Dale: Here are three knives I got some years ago from a friend of mine.They were stamped,"McGrann" on the blade end of the guard but if you get the blades just right under a light you can see the name Brusletto etched into them.On one you can barely make out Made in Norway and GP110 which may stand for General Purpose and 110 mm blade length which works out to about 4 1/8th inches(the blade length of this knife).
Apparently McGrann bought the blades and added his own handles or possibly they are original and he just added his name for ID purposes.

Nice knives Ray, but the handle treatment are not typical of Norwegian knives I have seen. I really like the look with the guard and the stag. It presents quite nicely!

My Brusletto has an extremely light etch on it as well. I just checked it again and even knowing where the etch is I had to look pretty hard to get it in the light just right to see the etch. I must have had the knife for almost 20 years before I discovered the etch on the blade. It is very small & extremely light.

The etch says:
Brusletto
Made in Norway

Here is one I picked up today at one of my favorite antique shops.The seller described it as a "Starrett" knife with shrunken handles.Blade may have been made from a Starrett power hanksaw blade but it is a bit thin for that.I can't reqally think of any Starrett tool offhand that would have a component like that.
It also appears that the stacked washerswere made deliberately small(the black ones)to provide a better gripping surface.The two clear spacers are painted red on the ends and make them look pinkish when held out in the light.The two thick black spacers taper nicely to fit the ends.There are two thin aluminum washers in the center and the four other thin washers are tri-layered(white-black-white).These are made from one of those old signs that you engrave with a pantograph tool and the letters appear white on a black background.Apparently one of the rear spacers deteriorated and someone took thin pieces of cardboard(10 of them)to fill in so the pommel nut could be tightened.
As they are roughly the size of a penny I think I will use some 1940's era pennies(maybe some 1943 zinc ones)to replace the cardboard.
The crossgurad and pommel nut are cast aluminum(there is a small blowhole in the guard under the handle)and the crossguard appears to have been cast directly onto the blade and tang. It is scary sharp like most knives of this genre and will likely hold a good edge for awhile.
After I do some repair to the spacers(some are crumbling from age)I should have a really nice example of a theatre knife to add to the others in my collection.Price wasn't too bad:$20 including tax.

That theater knife is classier than most; I really like the guard, but I just like it overall. This thread doesn't exactly race along, so I thought I would show an old Remington in tiptop condition with EIGHT INCH blade.

I am in total agreement on that being one fantastic knife!

UNDER the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie:
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you 'grave for me:
Here he lies where he long'd to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea, . . . . (often misquoted as "home from the sea")
And the hunter home from the hill.

I believe I read those verses as a child. Who wrote them?

Robert Louis Stevenson

Who wrote them?

Those lines were written by Robert Louis Stevenson.