Mora Knife Legacy

In the 1945 FMM catalog, there is a paragraph mentioned the initial moment when the idea of the laminated Mora knife has born. Although the name of the craftsmen is never mentioned I suppose they are referring to   Sol-Nils Olsson  or maybe  Finn-Anders Andersson Google translator The manufacture of Mora knives has a long history. The handy and well-known Mora men for their mechanical aptitudes originally produced this article for household needs and as handicrafts. From an early age, some handicraftsmen realized that the knife blade gained greater durability and sharpness if the knife wall itself was made with a thin steel blade inserted in between and joined with softer iron. It's told. that the circumstance which gave a craftsman the idea of ​​making knife blades with inlaid steel was as follows. One of his neighbors had bought a paring knife made in another factory with the method of manufacture at the time, but accidentally dropped the knife on the floor and the...

"100 years ago good steel was expensive but also brittle after heat treatment and an expensive knife was easy to break making it worthless. Someone figured that using the expensive steel just for the edge and not for the rest of the blade would make a superior knife as well as cheaper to produce. The grinding stones of that time also had a tough time grinding and sharpening those very hard blades and less hard steel at the edge made it easier to grind.  There have been different ways of making laminated blades and old hand-forged blades have a "wavy" hamon line while modern steel mill rolled laminated steel has a straight line. The laminated carbon steel made a cheaper blade as at this time material was expensive and labor was cheap.  So we ended up with a more durable and bend-resistant blade that would not easily break, a much better price/performance affordable knife that also was easy to re-sharpen. This was when the good trustworthy and reliable image of ...