So my main go to knives for camping ect are an old beat up K-Bar USMC. It’s held up very well. I also have a Becker BK9. This thing is huge. I bought it several years ago because I wanted a big knife. Well it’s realistically to big. Great chopper but sucks for everything else. It’s built like a tank but just to big. I usually toss it in the trunk / tool box when camping. If I was going to carry something like that I feel I’d be better off with a hatchet and a utility type knife. So I decided I need / want a light weight fixed blade knife that will be good for camping hiking ect. The Mora knives caught my attention. I know they are not 80-100 dollar knives and don’t expect them to be. However I hear all kinds of raving about them. So I bit the bullet and purchased a Mora MC heavy duty carbon. It’s the OD green one with the thicker carbon steel blade. First impression was great. I was like cool it’s big enough to not be a small knife but small enough to carve. It’s way lighter than my other fixed blades knives. I found a bunch of pine pitch yesterday I processed most of it and kept a few of the nodes / balls / whatever you want to call them. I decided to see if I could crush one of the balls and use my ferro rod to light it and make a fire I used the Mora to shave some peals from a dry stick. I suck at feather sticks. Still trying though. The Mora was relatively sharp. I sharpen all my own knives I can probably get it sharper. I got everything set up grab my ferro rod with full intention of using the spine of the knife. Failure no freggin sparks none at all zilch. I’ve scene a bunch of YouTube videos of people using Mora knives on ferro rods. I’m disappointed this one does not have any black coating on it. Maybe it has a clear coat of some kind but the ferro rod seemed to mar / ding up the spine of the Mora knife leading me to believe the metal is very soft. But how it’s supposed to be a carbon steel blade which is supposed to be hard! Anyway I’m a bit disappointed that it won’t spark a ferro rod. I don’t want to have to mod a knife that’s supposed to be a brush craft type knife to spark a ferro rod. I have full intention to use this knife for what it’s meant for. I know it’s gonna get beat up. Anyway any idea of their is some kinda clear coat that I’m gonna have to strip off to make the ferro rod work? The fire did work I use my home made hacksaw blade striker. Took a few strokes but the small ball that I crushed caught a spark and lit on fire. In a real emergency I’d probably build a tender bundle with char and use that to ignite the pitch to conserve my ferro rod.
This is the knife that I purchased.
Morakniv Companion Heavy Duty Knife with Sandvik Carbon Steel Blade, 0.125/4.1-Inch, Military Green https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009NZVZ3E..._vvqVCbG70DH4S
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