Carving a Mora Knife Handle on the banks of the River Cothi and in the Brechfa Forest.

In this video Paul is carving the handle of a Mora Knife.
The weather was lovely, so he took the opportunity to get outside. On the first day, he carved on the banks of the River Cothi and on the second on a picnic bench high up in the Brechfa Forest. Both locations were within a few miles of our home in Abergorlech, Carmarthenshire.
The handle was carved using various chip carving techniques on the standard Mora Handle, after it was shaped using a Flexcut Roughing Knife (KN14). Initial shaping depth cuts on handle made using a piece of depth-marked hacksaw blade.
The tools used for chip carving were Flexcut Mini Chip Knife (KN20) and Kirschen-2 Cherries Carving Knife (3351), The Kirschen is my favourite go to chip carving knife (as it has a super thin blade).
Lightly sanded with 600 Hermes paper, then polished with a small piece of leather (suede side) and then finished with our homemade 'wood butter' (a mixture of beeswax and Tung oil). Final polish on Axminster Craft buffing machine.
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Video recorded on Sunday 20th June and Monday 21st June on GoPro Hero 7 Black with a RODE directional mic, edited using Shotcut.
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[@thehairywoodcarver]

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[@shedmanx3640]

Absolutely brilliant work. Really enjoyed this.

[@davidwhiren817]

Good Lad , if you ask me , I think that we are all always learning !!!

[@thehairywoodcarver]

Couldn’t agree more, continual learning is one of the best bits 👍👍

[@davidwhiren817]

I bet it's super grippy with the added pattern you applied !!!

[@thehairywoodcarver]

Yes it does add to the grip, like the look of it, can see all my knives getting this treatment 😁

[@whittler0507]

Very nice video and chip carving ..thank you for sharing with us your talent

[@thehairywoodcarver]

Thanks Gene, really appreciate it 😊🙏

[@dougwilliams7667]

Looks great

[@thehairywoodcarver]

Thanks! Doug 👍

[@tke3ller]

These are simial to checkering patterns that they use on rifle/shotgun stocks on wooden stocks. Dont know if you are aware but there are specialty tools to do this checkering pattern look for checkering tools and you should get to what im talking about.

[@thehairywoodcarver]

Hi Timothy, Yes this is inspired in part from gun stock carving, there is some amazing carving out there on guns. I haven’t seen the special tool for this but will take a look. I am a bit of a purist and try to do what I can with simple knives and chisels but, always interested in seeing different tools and techniques 👍

[@impermanenthuman8427]

Is this Mora you are carving the handle of the Mora Classic number 2? I am trying to decide on a small ‘all-rounder’ camp knife to wear as a neck knife for primitive outdoor skills that involve carving. I am considering the Mora Classic 2, Mora Classic 2F (which has a finger guard to stop inexperienced users from slipping their fingers down onto the blade), Mora 120 carving knife, Mora 106 carving knife and Mora 105 carving knife. I like the idea of the Classic 2F simply for the safety factor of the finger guard and also since it would be around my neck it may be the most available ‘defensive’ knife on hand in the event some animal comes at me when I am alone in the bush, as in my area there are stories of packs of feral dogs threatening campers and also large Kangaroos who feel your threatening their territory attacking people so some kind of finger guard seems handy, but some say it gets in the way of some carving tasks and makes the knife less useful which I may regret choosing? but then it can be cut off and ground down later? Also the Mora 105 has a ridge around the front and back of the handle which looks like it could reduce the chance of the hand slipping onto the blade, but could easily be sanded down if I wanted to remove it? Based on experienced primitive living skills hobbyists I think the regular Classic 2 would be best, but they seem to choose it as a ‘one knife’ option but I would also be carrying a folding saw and a multitool and possibly some kind of stainless ‘chopper’ for firewood processing and use in and around salt water and wet outdoors use in general, so my Mora would mainly just be for finer work around camp like tinder, kindling and practicing various notches etc I also don’t want to fall into the trap of carrying too many tools. Also most of the trees where I live are ‘hardwood’ species so my tools need to be fairly ‘tough’ Would appreciate your suggestions. Thanks

[@larryprocunier8744]

What type of wood is the handle made from. It looks to be quite easy to carve.