You could also add a racing stripe of orange tape on the handle of the knife so when you drop your rod, your, case and your knife they can find each other!
Did a similar modification to my Mora Craftline. Taped a holder for a fermium rod to it. I combined a Duck Tape and one of those reflective tapes. I have butter fingers and I lose things easily. If I have to search for it in the dark, a reflective tape would be very handy since it reflects light better than regular tape.
When going out of the woods..i always relh on my bic and cricket ...i have both one on the bag ...one on my pocket...the easiest thing to do in fire making..
Two suggestions. First, if the knife starts to slip out of the sheath, I read somewhere that if you get a hair dryer, you can warm the plastic and tighten up the hold on the knife. Second, if you get a 2 or 3 inch piece of inner tube and slide it up the belt loop and down to the top of the sheath, the handle of the knife will hold against the rubber and reduce the chance of slipping out. You could even cut a slit in the top 1/4 inch to use as a band to secure the knife. That way it won't slide down when not being used.
You can use the .308 Casing as Grip for the Ferro rod as well, just put it where the Bullet was with a litlle help from a hammer or use the vice as a press, looks better, hold better and bigger Grip. Or you simply drill a hole through the Rod and put the elastic Paracord through it, very simple and you have the full length of it to use.
2 points 1- Bic pens or marker case are a better option for your fire steel as it’s a bit lighter and flexible 2- be sure to mix the whites with the colors so that the wife gets off your back about laundry duties. Just trying to help a brother out
on the first point: in my personal experience a drawback is that some plastic on those pen parts may be brittle. I have tried this myself while playing around with a sheath and fire rod. The bic pen plastic parts started to break very soon when the setup was treated roughly. Yes, the plastic was hard, but it was brittle. The idea is very clever at first glance, but personally I wouldn't rely on it for tough situations and extreme temperature ranges. I guess others may have had another, better, experiences, but this was my experience anyway.
I like to use the gorilla tape as it is strong and I can use it later if needed. When I put it on I do not rip it in half I just let one half the tape hang off the back of the rod making the handle that much longer and easy to hold, plus that much more tape if needed for cuts or what ever.
Nice modification. I like the orange duct tape. Food for thought: might it be better to just flatten about half of the spine (the half away from the hilt) instead of the entire spine. That way you can have the flat, squared surface (or slightly angled as you suggest) for scraping the ferrocerium rod but have a more comfortable rounded spine in the area where you would naturally put your fingers or thumb using the knife for whittling or other fine carvings.
Anyone that knows anything about knives knows you should leave At Least 1" (I favor 1.25"+) of smooth, safe, comfortable spine before any mods. This leaves plenty of room for the scraper, and even a bail handling notch, if you're so inclined.
What diameter and length ferrule rod did you use? Also, I wonder if this would work with a 30.06 brass casing? Great idea mate and yes, I subscribed. Thanks.
Jack Howard I don't know what it means, but that was the first and most thing I noticed... maybe we're not cut out for survival unless mobs of laundry attack. Well. If they do, they'll know who to call!
I admire the first thing and I last thing. All in between are an options, but first and last - just brilliant!
Inner tube is brilliant stuff - it has so many uses .. from strong elastic bands to making battery straps to hold your m/cycle battery in place.
You could also add a racing stripe of orange tape on the handle of the knife so when you drop your rod, your, case and your knife they can find each other!
Thanks for the tips! I for one found the dryer really soothing, almost fell asleep 😂
Thought it was a milking parlor
Never thought of a 308 casing. Great idea! Thanks for sharing.
Did a similar modification to my Mora Craftline. Taped a holder for a fermium rod to it. I combined a Duck Tape and one of those reflective tapes. I have butter fingers and I lose things easily. If I have to search for it in the dark, a reflective tape would be very handy since it reflects light better than regular tape.
Man your water bag bring back memories. Riding down back roads with one of those bags hanging off the truck mirror.
When going out of the woods..i always relh on my bic and cricket ...i have both one on the bag ...one on my pocket...the easiest thing to do in fire making..
A 308 shell, lol I never would have thought of that, guess you can learn something new every day.
Moraknives
American needs require American solutions
Sounds like you have my bibbed overalls in your dryer ! LOL
I just taped a hundred dollar bill to my Mora sheath. Good for an emergency night out on the town.
Two suggestions. First, if the knife starts to slip out of the sheath, I read somewhere that if you get a hair dryer, you can warm the plastic and tighten up the hold on the knife. Second, if you get a 2 or 3 inch piece of inner tube and slide it up the belt loop and down to the top of the sheath, the handle of the knife will hold against the rubber and reduce the chance of slipping out. You could even cut a slit in the top 1/4 inch to use as a band to secure the knife. That way it won't slide down when not being used.
Fun at 7:40 how you’re already getting use out of your Mora...
Thanks for the video!
That was an awsome use of a 308 casing. Never thought of that. Kudos to you. Subscribing now, just for that video. Keep it up.
Thanks for the sub! If you cut the casing off partway down the shoulder you can create positive retention on the ferro rod. Works well.
You can use the .308 Casing as Grip for the Ferro rod as well, just put it where the Bullet was with a litlle help from a hammer or use the vice as a press, looks better, hold better and bigger Grip. Or you simply drill a hole through the Rod and put the elastic Paracord through it, very simple and you have the full length of it to use.
2 points
1- Bic pens or marker case are a better option for your fire steel as it’s a bit lighter and flexible
2- be sure to mix the whites with the colors so that the wife gets off your back about laundry duties.
Just trying to help a brother out
on the first point: in my personal experience a drawback is that some plastic on those pen parts may be brittle. I have tried this myself while playing around with a sheath and fire rod. The bic pen plastic parts started to break very soon when the setup was treated roughly. Yes, the plastic was hard, but it was brittle. The idea is very clever at first glance, but personally I wouldn't rely on it for tough situations and extreme temperature ranges.
I guess others may have had another, better, experiences, but this was my experience anyway.
Mix the whites with the colors, there is a trick with that.
That, sir, is some dang fine fast hacksaw work...;-)
I like to use the gorilla tape as it is strong and I can use it later if needed. When I put it on I do not rip it in half I just let one half the tape hang off the back of the rod making the handle that much longer and easy to hold, plus that much more tape if needed for cuts or what ever.
More tape is alway good thing!
Nice mods, I like the casing to hold the ferro rod
what speaks against Heat-shrink tubing? I hate tape on mora.
I'm going to try Heat-shrink. Thanks for the idea! What size?
Why didn't you buy the orange Mora Companion?
Thanks for the tips. Just picked up my first Mora and I love it. Subbed your channel too
Love it, great tips mate.
G'day from Australia. 🇦🇺
Heat gun will reshape the sheath to tighten it back up.
Watching in 2021 real cool mods
You should have picked the orange handle and sheath if you dont want to lose them
Oh man that is smart I have some old 306 shells might not be big enough
Learned a lot. thanks man
Thanks, gonna give my Mora an upgrade too!
Great information and video sir!!!!! Blessings to you and your family 😇 🇺🇸
Some paracord is always a good add on the top of that
Wow
Empty Shell case.Excellent idea brother.🔥
American needs require American solutions
I just bought 5 different Mora knifes. . .I use a a small wood gasifier cooking stove and needed a way to cut my wood, batoning...
Mora Knives 🔪 Rock!
Nice idea about the casing 👍👍
Nice practical upgrade 👍👍
Nicely done,up working on one myself
Great tip with the casing! Just subbed
Thank you @Common Sense Camper. I will try to get some more videos out.
Looks good
I did the ideas and thank you for sharing, but if visibility is a concern why not start with the orange mora ?
Because MG green is more buscraft looking.
Great video
Brilliant video thank for sharing 👍
Thank you @lalaprepper. Do you have any suggestions for new Videos? Bushcraft, cowboying, on the ranch?
Nice modification. I like the orange duct tape. Food for thought: might it be better to just flatten about half of the spine (the half away from the hilt) instead of the entire spine. That way you can have the flat, squared surface (or slightly angled as you suggest) for scraping the ferrocerium rod but have a more comfortable rounded spine in the area where you would naturally put your fingers or thumb using the knife for whittling or other fine carvings.
Anyone that knows anything about knives knows you should leave At Least 1" (I favor 1.25"+) of smooth, safe, comfortable spine before any mods. This leaves plenty of room for the scraper, and even a bail handling notch, if you're so inclined.
Or just buy the "Mora light my fire Swedish fire knife".
True but modding your gear is fun
Or save Money and have fun to make Your Own Stuff for the Money you save buy Beer and Steak for the Campfire 😉🍻🥩🔥🏞️🌌
If the washing machines is a rockin dont come a knockin
What diameter and length ferrule rod did you use? Also, I wonder if this would work with a 30.06 brass casing? Great idea mate and yes, I subscribed. Thanks.
Thanks for watching William! The rod length was 3.15" (8cm) and diameter was 5/16" (0.8cm). I'll see if a 30.06 casing will work and let you know.
William the 30-06 is the parent cartridge of the .308 so yea
Thanks for the reply as I have some .30-06 brass that I can cut down for the ferrule rod. Awesome.
Nice job!
I like seeing peoples mods, good job new sub here
ATB Del
Tried this... wtf am I doing wrong? My Rod sparks so that’s not it. I have filed and filed. My blade is stainless steel. Is that why it won’t spark?
You can make sparks with stainless steal. Maybe just keep grinding? Make sure you've got that nice sharp angle on the spine
That ferrell rod is like the John Holmes of ferrell rods what is the make of it
Nice work.
Love those mods
I dont get the feral rod trend. Bic Lighters are so easy and I cant light a bowl with a feral rod
Uncle Fjester ferro* and it’s more reliable and will last longer
Ferro rods work when wet and super cold which bics do not (yeah ik you can dry a bic)
Plus like knives edge said ferro rods last way longer
Why not just get the Mora with the orange handle and the orange sheath ?
Expensive. But btw he showed us a way to mod a Mora Companion to make it like a Mora Bushcraft
Duck tape can do everything 😀👍
si, gracias quisiera saber su opinión de los cuchillos ka- bar ZK ..chopper
Muy bien! Intentaré conseguir uno. Gracias!
Nice Mora mods!
Thanks, cillaloves2fish! Got any suggestions for other videos?
Thanks!
Can you do a video on a packbasket...
MORA BushCraft Survival would be more simple solution and would look better:)
Companion is companion
Um, to the last comment. And when your Bic runs out.... then what?
nice video ！from Japan
ffwd through bits got you a sub :)
what I did for firesteel
I think your clothes dryer is running.
tfr51 fuck me i thought that was some sort of huge grandfather clock haha
tfr51 : and now the clothes dryer has finished😂
Jack Howard Hahaha 👍😂
Jack Howard
I don't know what it means, but that was the first and most thing I noticed... maybe we're not cut out for survival unless mobs of laundry attack. Well. If they do, they'll know who to call!
I don't know if those are clothes he is drying...
Add mora to a knife
Проволокой не закрепил,значит шляпа. Держаться не будет.😀
Were could I buy this knife?
Amazon.
Cool mod!
Thanks for watching!
um y did you not just wrap the whole thing in the orange duck tape
I already have an orange Mora knife.
gracias!!
Eric, mi revisión de la Ka-Bar ZK Pestilence Chopper está disponible. Déjame saber lo que piensas.
useful mod. thx. :-)
Could you use a sharpening stone as the file?
To sharpen the 90 degree on the spine? You could use a stone, a coarse grit stone, but the process could take awhile.
Waste of a good stone!
Топорная работа,валенок!
turn off the damn dryer!!!
Good idea, but i would use realtree tape and you will have camouflage knife sheath.
And at the end of the video you will have dry clothes good to go from the drier running throughout the video.
Dry clothes are awesome!
Did them clothes ever get dry?
А большой палец при силовом резе ты теперь куда упирать будешь?
Главное побольше скотча и изоленты))) в России была бы синяя))))
Синяя лента. Спасибо!
Or buy an orange Mora, dump the trashy red tape
Hillbilly engineering, my kind of work. Next the Mora needs a dangler so it will fit on a GI pistol belt. - Z
me gustó el vídeo muy sencillo y práctico
¡Gracias! ¿Tienes alguna idea para nuevos videos que te gustaría ver?
I think your laundry is dry....!!!
#dualsurvival
No to je hnus!
DUCK TAPE FIXES EVERY THING. PEACE&SAFE JOURNEYS BROTHER
Hultafors.
Co tu się odjebało ??? Coś Ty zrobił najlepszego z tym nożem.
dokladnie to samo pomyslalem
¿Que qué?
Turn the damn tumble dryer off FFS!
No dryer noise. Got it. Thanks!
Hrůza.
OMG,!!! Ive never seen Anyone modify a Mora like that that before!! Apart from the Hundreds!! Of other videos showing the SAME thing! BORING!!😮
Lol!
My Mod is better. I tape a Bic lighter to mine. Done!
doesnt have to be pretty. yeah but it could be...
Sucks that it isn't a full tang
Not full tang but I have not broken a Mora yet.
The tang goes two thirds of the way down into the handle...its not going to break
Американцы!!!
The only thing worse than annoying music is the sound of insipid clacking in the background. You have no respect for your audience.
Сталин ?
Modifications🤦♂️
Was für ein gebastel 😩
It was not elegant