Got my 52100 MULE today

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coyotesniper69

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This is my first spydie and I am rather pleased w/ it. Instead of turning this into a project knife I think I am going to leave it alone and use it like a necker. I just need to get some kydex and make the sheath first. I know the MULE concept is to test the steel and give reports on it so I will due my part and add a little review. Keep in mind I have only had the blade for about a half an hour. I have owned 52100 knives before and I really like the steel and Spyderco seems to do a great job w/ it. It came razor sharp and shaved hair out of the box. I left the edge angle as was. When I opened the box the first thing I did I sliced the invoice into confetti. I then used it to cut up a milk jug and a pepsi carton. Afterwards I shaved some fatwood with it. The fatwood left some pine rosin on the blade but it was still sharp enough to shave hair. I was hoping to be able to use this blade for some light batoning but the blade is paper thin at the tip so if I do any it will have to be extremely lite batoning. The blade cleaned up really well and still looks new. Even though the handle is thin it feels real comfortable in hand. I like the blade profile and it should make a great skinner for game. Here are a couple pics:

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I love my Mule as well. It has really impressed me. It comes very sharp but with a bit of a touch with a 1000 grit ceramic it got EVEN SHARPER! And I don't use all caps lightly.

I would love to see a Mule type blade as a full production model maybe with S30V. It is an inexpensive and practical design that would get a lot of people on the Spyderco brand.
 
Unsub said:
I love my Mule as well. It has really impressed me. It comes very sharp but with a bit of a touch with a 1000 grit ceramic it got EVEN SHARPER! And I don't use all caps lightly.

I would love to see a Mule type blade as a full production model maybe with S30V. It is an inexpensive and practical design that would get a lot of people on the Spyderco brand.
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I'm with you there Unsub, I read somewhere that historically fixed blades for Spyderco never sold that well.....I think the Street Beat and Mule Team will change everything.... imho the Mule Team's design deserves merit alone (irrespective of steel flavor).... its smaller Temperance/ bigger LilTemp profile is more utilitarian for "city"/"suburban" folk to use and would be awesome to have in our (more jaded) supersteels like VG-10/cpmS30V .... :cool: maybe as a benchmark :confused: ;)
 
The Street Beat is a little jewel. It is pricey at full knife store price here in Canada though.
I may have to get one from New Graham though.

I wonder how cheap a Byrd Mule skelly could be made for? A very cheap molded plastic sheath and an included peice of paracord could have us a spyderco competitor to the mora. If they can make them in small amounts in the US of 52100 for 40$ imagine the price per unit for a chinese made 8Cr13MoV version on a run of 10 000?
As much as I love 52100 the geometry and the skelly design are big hits as well.
 
Unsub, I like that idea of a Mule w/byrd steel....heck even 440c would be great in a Mule shape....and if the Mule was shrunken down in size a tad, it would make a good (relatively inexpensive) neckknife.....to compete with others (like the Fallkniven WM-1 and Buck Mayo Kaala, for example) :thumbup:
 
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