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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