Mora's Other Bushcraft Knife, The Kansbol - compared with Garberg, Companion HD and Bushcraft Black

this is Maura's other Bushcraft knife the cans ball if you're interested to hear my thoughts on this knife keep watching all right just before we get started a few things first I want to thank wild medkits for sending me the cans ball so that I could share it with you so the quick back story is I reached out to wildmed kids looking for this knife and they had they replied that they weren't going to carry it any longer it was just something they had brought in for a short period of time but they would be interested in sending me one of their other products which turned out to be a really fantastic first aid kit which I'll bring to you in another video but they threw this in just for me to have so thank you to Wild medkits for sending this knife now here's the rest of the back story not so long ago I released a video where I compared three of Maura's knives and declared the Bushcraft black to be my favorite of the three the three were of course the Bushcraft black The Heavy Duty Companion and the garberg and if you're interested that video will be linked at the end of this video I didn't have the the cans ball at the time so I couldn't include it in the video if I'd had it trust me I would have included it because a whole lot of you viewers said Merck what about the cans ball you forgot the cans ball no I didn't forget it I just didn't have it at the time now I have it now we'll talk about the canspo and how it compares to the other three knives from more all right so what we're going to do is just come in a little bit closer I'll go over the knife in a little bit of detail not a whole lot because of course I'll put all the specifications in the video description for your reference and then we'll do some demonstrations all right before we dive in take a closer look at the cans ball I want to share the sheet that it came with this is the typical mower Sheaf hard plastic but it is an upgrade from some of the older style in that it is reversible for left hand or right hand carry whatever your preference is so right now if I drop it in this direction set up secure for right hand carry take it out turn the knife around set up and secure it for left hand carry so that works out great very much identical to the garberg sheath in fact if you have the gerberg and you have the multi-mount system you can use it on this sheath as well let's just drop the sheath out of the way I want to quickly go over the specifications for this knife but like I said they'll all be in the video description below so overall length 10.47 inches 226 millimeters blade length 4.29 inches 109 millimeters blade thickness and this is significant .09 eighths of an inch or 2.5 millimeters so this is thinner than all the other knives that I consider well Bushcraft knives you know that's not entirely true the regular companion is the same thickness of this and it works I just wanted to point out this is thinner than the other knives I'm going to be sharing with you today weight 4.7 ounces 134 gram steel the typical sandvx 12c27 mov stainless steel and I just recently read on Morris website not sure how I missed it before is they recycle their steel so if they're in production and they have a lot of leftover pieces they just go back into the Melting Pot so they're not wasting any that's environmentally very responsible of course the handle material is is the hard plastic tpe with a rubber over mold so right along here it's hard plastic but all along here it is a softer rubber making for good traction really good feel in the hand but we'll talk more about that in a few minutes now I want to point out that this is not my first introduction to this style of knife what do I mean by that I already owned the more outdoor 2000 I've had this for a lot of years this has been retired in favor of the cans ball so it is the ancestor the Forerunner if you will of the cans Bowl almost identical as you can see from the blade design really there's not a lot of difference but what I'll tell you what the differences are between the two first and then I'll put the more outdoor 2000 away first off you can see the obvious is the handle the handle is different this is very comfortable in the hand and works very well again hard plastic with a rubber over mold that carry that over but the other thing is is the fit and finish on the 2000 look how shiny the stainless steel is there's no brush marks this was finished right down to a mirror polish and the spine is rounded as well so this indicates a higher level of finish for this knife over some of the more I don't want to call them low class but entry level working knives that more ahead as well all right let's put the 2000 aside so what makes this so unique from the other knives is the fact that it has what's known as a dual grind now it is scandy all the way down you can see the scandi starts back here where the blade is at its full thickness that same scandi continues right forward to the tip but what they've done just past the halfway mark Otis they start at the thin the blade out and you can see that now you probably see it in this Dimension as well thicker up to about here and then it starts to thin out towards the tip okay so what is the benefit of that slicey and I'll demonstrate just how slicy this is because well start with 2.5 millimeters it's a thin blade to begin with already thinner than say the garberg or the Bushcraft black or the Heavy Duty Companion so it's already going to be more slicey and I guess that's the best word I can use but when you get even thinner towards this end of the knife it's going to be even slicier I think people are probably starting to see a one of the shortcomings with this knife in that respect it's not anywhere near as strong out at the end of the blade as the other knives are that's not to say it's not strong enough as you'll see in a moment but it is thinner they have made up to that or made up for that so to a certain degree by making it thicker from spine to Edge so it's thicker in this Dimension than any of the other knives except maybe the garberg it may be about the same we'll bring it in for comparison in a minute you can see there's a small drop point and pretty good tip not the best wood carving tip but still a good tip for well just about everything you're going to do with a Bushcraft knife let's just put it right up front this is a Bushcraft knife but it's different from the other Bushcraft knives in that you're not going to uh well I wouldn't recommend I won't say you can't rely on this by itself you certainly can but I would recommend that this be a backup or secondary cutting tool to an ax or saw this is not the one knife you take out and expect to be a survival do all night it's not the Gerber let's put it that way but it has some distinct advantages over the Gerber that you will see in a few minutes Simon the last thing I'll see show you is that it has a very very sharp spine so unlike some of the entry level Morse it's not left unfinished it was finished with a sharp edge so that's of course some one of the things we want on Bushcraft knives that was probably the only thing missing off the bore uh the more outdoor 2000 was that it was rounded I will tell you the more outdoor 2000 is much more comfortable on your thumb when you're carving than this knife is but of course you can't scrape with it so you have to have some other means of scraping wood fat wood ferrocerium whatever it is all right let's bring another knife in to compare with all right the first knife I'll bring in for comparison is the companion heavy duty and yes this is the old school robust but it's identical to the companion heavy duty except for the color of the handle so what can you see by comparison obviously the companion HD has a much thinner blade especially towards the tip it's also a much thicker blade at three millimeters so yeah it is thinner more heavy duty and that respect much better I wouldn't say much better cover just a better cover much better is relative to how much carving you're going to do and how fine you want the tip to be but you can see that it is a thinner tip on it and you can see it also from spine to Edge it's thinner in that way but when you look at them let's see I don't know how well I can make this work um very much same overall size you know there's not much difference in length well actually very little difference in length if any at all in terms of length of blade length the handle that type of thing all right so that's the HD let's put that aside all right the Mora Bushcraft black and I still think this is my favorite of all the more knives for Bushcraft but we're going to talk more about that in a minute because I think at the end of the day the two bit well I will call my favorites are these two and I'll I'll explain myself in a minute as I mentioned once again heavier duty steel on the Bushcraft black although thinner from spine to Edge finer at the tip better for fine wood curving but that's about it everything else well actually let's just see I would say that the Bushcraft black has a millimeter or two length over top of the garberg or not garberg trans Ball but one of the things is it's just a different shape handle so you really can take that a little bit of extra length on the Bushcraft black and call it an advantage one way or another heavier Steel thinner tip good night really good knife in fact I really still like this one last night to bring in will be the garberg all right one last knife to compare against the cans bolt and that is of course the garberg and these knives often are compared one against the other by a lot of reviewers and I can understand why they have a similar appearance and that's about all they really have is a similar appearance I guess where they are most the same is in the handle itself you can see the handle shape is I'm going to say the handle sheath is identical in every way but there are some differences even there whereas the cans ball has the hard plastic and soft rubber over mold the cans bolt does not it does not have the soft rubber overmold bit of a Miss I think because that would have made it just that much more nice to hold in the hand but not that it hurts at any it's just I think it would have been just a little bit nicer with that soft over mold and of course after that they there's a lot of differences maybe the length the length of the blades are identical as you can see blade profile is pretty close one to the other in terms of height from spine to Edge and the fact that they both have the same drop point but after that everything else is different start with look at the difference in the thickness of this spine or the material the blades themselves considerably thicker on the guard brick we knew that of course the other thing of course is that the Gerber does not thin out in the forward half of the blade it and you'll see in a minute in demonstrations it's nowhere near as slicy as a result of that the last difference of course is that the garberg is a full 10 knife with a protruding pommel the cans ball is not a Full Tang knife now I don't consider that a handicap in any way because the other mowers are not Full Tang knives either and I have full confidence in them and use them all right let's talk about the cans bowl and whether or not it truly is a Bushcraft knife so first off the answer is the question is yes it is but the reason it is is a little different than it is from the other knives so with the other knives that I have reviewed from more they are all Bushcraft knives but what they do better than this knife is that they're better at carving wood they're better at wood processing they're a little bit better at splitting wood open but what they're not better than the cans ball is is that being slicey and the advantage of having a slicing knife is an area that we have not talked about and use of Bushcraft knives and of course that is meal preparation game preparation cleaning fish cleaning rabbits cleaning deer clearing whatever it is and preparing those meats for the meal or slicing vegetables or anything else this is where the cans ball shines over the other nights for a couple of reasons one of course the very thin stock as we talked about when I first opened the video and the forward part of the knife where it thins out makes us a great slicing knife now that's not to say you can't do wood prep fire prep with this knife it's just that you should be taken to reason what it is you're doing with it so I am going to Baton this knife in a few minutes time but the wood that I will be torn with a knife like this is going to be a lot smaller than I would do with the other knives so that's why this is a Bushcraft knife it'll do all the tasks the other knives will maybe not as heavy duty with the heavier pieces of wood but what this will do that the other knives won't do is slight or not won't do as well is slice and that's what we'll demonstrate in a moment okay so the piece of wood that I'm going to put on is inch I'm going to say inch and a quarter in diameter at least at this end this end it starts to well out and there is a huge knot but I'm not going to try and push this knife through the knot I'll go down the side of the knot as best I can I think I can do this and this is definitely as large a piece of wood as I would baton with the cans ball I think it probably could withstand larger pieces of wood because even though it is thin it is high that means it has a lot of strength built into it it's just that I don't see the reason why I would want to do that this is not the only cutting tool I brought out so yeah let's just go with that all right so new cutting block is a little unstable I'm finding and here's the thing that I'm seeing right away is because of the thinner Steel it's not prying the wood apart like you do with the wider scandi grinds I mean it certainly split the wood as you can see oh I did go through knots did I ever okay so it did it withstand it let's just have a look no glinting off of The Edge no rolling no chipping no damage but having said that that which as far as I would go in terms of uh batoning a piece of wood they went through some knots I had no intention of going through but it withstood it and uh better than maybe I even anticipated would and by the way this is seasoned Maple okay I'll split these down actually I might just choose something else to split so I can further avoid the knots and do some 10 Peg demonstrations all right in full disclosure I actually did end up splitting that same piece of wood out but I did it with the garberg just so I could get four splits off the same piece of wood that I could do some other tasks with here's what I'm going to say I didn't do this on camera and maybe I missed an opportunity there but by batoning the Gerber right after having batoned the cans ball you can definitely feel the difference between the two knives this knife was like a the garberg that is was like a wedge going through it the wood just parted way without with very little resistance and of course it is is that much thicker that much stronger but it's also due to the fact that it has the full length scandi yes this does have a full length scandi but it is thinner overall and thinner again towards the front so the wood wanted to stay against the sides of the metal would not come up here quit as quickly but okay so that aside let's just take this one and I'm going to do a little cross baton and I'm not doing heavy duty work or just a a couple of little Taps like that and clean the notch out L7 with ease this just rolls into that notch and cleans it out so so well all right so again in full disclosure this is not the tent Peg I was just working on it's another one of the splits from that same piece of wood but look at the Wicket knots at that end and ahead I've been notching at this end which I did on the tent Peg then I would have been putting the point on this end so you can see why I chose to not give that a try all right but it's the same wood same split just the straighter end of the two so let's just do that using my reverse grip and my chest lever cut let's put a point on this stick and that is where this knife just excels bites into that wood with real Authority my recommendation of course is stay back here where the blade is at its thickest and you get them to take most advantage of that Scandinavian grind but what's that four or five different strokes and I have a really really pointy little stick all right so that's a couple more demonstrations now let's go on to feather sticking so another task for Bushcraft knife of course is feather sticking and okay this is again another one of those splits looking it over for knots no knots but there is quite a bit of a Twist in it I don't think that'll have too much of an impact let's just see what happens oh my goodness I don't think I kept it on the stick but wow so it of course I've used this knife and I've used the more outdoor 2000 so I know exactly what it's capable of as you can see some very thin curls is what it's capable of but every time I pick it up after having used another knife that's when I start to really appreciate just what a good feather wow that's like paper wow so what I thought I would do by comparison bring out the Bushcraft black and just run that down the knife or down the stick a few times and right away it meets more resistance doing a good job don't get me wrong it's just I have to adjust the angle a little bit higher to get the same bite and then I meet more resistance going down the wood back to the cans ball oh my goodness yeah if you're looking for a knife one of Mora's knives to feather stick with this is the one any of their thinner knives for that matter but this is definitely the better of the feather stickers in their lineup I'm just taking it slow here working on this stick I can relax the knife way down almost flat it feels like and it just wants to continue to peel off a little little tiny curls if I start angling the knife a little bit the Cur the curls will curl away if I go the other way they curl in the other direction now you can spend a lot more time on a feather stick than I am and I'm just gonna brush this one up a little bit just to make it a little thicker but I would say with a little bit more work I could have had a rig really big bushy feather stick two or three of those and I have everything I need to start a fire now scraping so there are three types of scraping that I would consider using a Bushcraft knife for one of course is wood itself let's see if we can create some fuzz using the spine and of course we can so the thoughts I'm creating off of this piece of maple is by itself get it off the stick fine enough to take Sparks from a ferriscerium rod we'll just set that aside how about a piece of fat wood by the way this is just a piece of birch brick on the ground right here to catch everything with and of course no question about it very very sharp spine as you can see now for a cerium rod I do want to make sure yeah it's clean it's ready and that's all there was to it okay I did say scraping was the last test but actually no I can't end this video without demonstrating just what the cans ball is capable of doing in terms of slicing I did say where this knife excels over all the others is food preparation well I'm about to have some luncheon I might as well show you how well this will slice my lunch all right so what is the slicing test how about a tomato tomatoes are notorious for slicing if your knife is not sharp if your knife is not thin enough it tends to push through tomato and make quite a bit of a mess so I actually have three knives I'm going to compare I am going to use the garberg just to show you what that's like for food prep I will be using the cans Bowl but I thought I'd bring out a really slicy Camp knife and this is the Firebox stove folding chef's knife and this is designed specifically for that actually let's just pull that stem out so it's not in the way at all and how about this look at that this is what let's see how thin I can get it oh my goodness yeah see this is what a thin knife can do thin and sharp we'll put that knife aside now what about the garberg let's just give the Gerber actually a lot of resistance and if I wasn't putting this forward pushing motion well let's just yeah I can't I can't even push down on the Tomato won't even break this oh there it goes it breaks the surface just to give you an idea I mean it's still doing the job isn't it but it's just not as nice as the Firebox stove one was well what about the cans ball first I should probably clean it off a little bit on my pant leg watch this that mean that is almost a goodest slicer may be just as good a slicer as the Firebox stove look at that I'm thinking that's pretty thin it's something that the garberg can't do but the forward part of the cans Bowl can do better than any other knife in my collection with the exception of that Firebox stove knife all right this is all going to be part of my lunch today all right now we can wrap this video up all right let's wrap this video up with a few closing comments for the more cans ball right off the top of course yes this is a Bushcraft knife you just have to take into considering what type of Bushcraft tasks you're putting this to I would look at this in terms of My overall General field knife that I'm going to do wood crafting with at least a feather sticking and some fine carving to a certain degree and food preparation so if your tasks involve more along the line of food preparation and less along the line of splitting and carving wood then this is the better of all the moronize for that matter if you're looking for something that's a bit more heavy duty capable of splitting bigger pieces of wood and taking more hard use than maybe the garberg or the heavy duty companion or the Bushcraft black is the better choice but for everything else this is just the better cutter so once again it depends on what tasks you're going to be using your bush craft knife four if you choose to take this one with you which of course I do and love and always have with the outdoor 2000 I'm going to take a bigger knife with it or a hatchet or something else that I can use to split wood down if I'm doing fire prep all right I think that kind of sums it up if you have any other thoughts on the cans Bowl in relation to Bushcraft or the other knives that I brought out today or in any of the other knives more puts out as well then please put those comments or those questions if you have any in the comments section below as I mentioned all the specifications for this knife will be in the video description as well as links to Wild Med kits where I got this knife now I am going to tell you they're not going to be carrying them any longer but I think it's worth going there just to show them a little support especially if you're interested in first aid kits and I did mention I'll be reviewing the first aid kit they sent me um soon let's put it that way soon but these are readily available from a great deal of sources so I'm sure you can find a place if you're looking to purchase these knives all right that's it that's all I have for you today get out and explore and take that path less travel because it will make all the difference bye for now

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Length: 25min 0sec (1500 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 09 2023