MT07P – Mule Team Fixed Blade featuring Damascus/VG-10

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MT07P – Mule Team Fixed Blade featuring Damascus/VG-10

MT07P will be available for sale on Friday, 1-Oct-2010 at 1000 (MST)

All sales will be handled by the Spyderco Factory Outlet store online at http://spyderco.com.

Maximum Purchase Allowed: 2

Cost: $84.95 each

Domestic Shipping: Standard Shipping rates apply.

International Shipping:
International shipments will be sent out according to our International Shipping Schedule:
Shopping Cart Total: $0-$99 - Shipping/Handling Charge $25
Shopping Cart Total: $100-$399 - Shipping/Handling Charge $35
Shopping Cart Total: $400 and higher - Shipping/Handling Charge $50

International shipments will be via USPS International Priority Mail. Please be aware, we will have limited tracking capabilities. Tracking once it leaves the US is dependent upon the postal services outside the US and their ability to provide it. However, this will completely eliminate UPS Brokerage Fees.

About the Damascus/VG-10:
Spyderco’s Damascus Mule Team is a laminated fifteen-layer steel with a Suminagashi pattern. The Damascus Mule’s steel is composed of layers of erosive and non-erosive material over a VG-10 core center. The erosive layers are hard martensite stainless steel and the non-erosive layers are anti-corrosion nonferrous metal. These layers block carbon particles in the core from spreading to the outer layers. After layering the blade is forged to intentionally distort the layer-lines making a complicated, artistically beautiful pattern called Suminagashi. Suminagashi is the traditional Japanese art form of creating ripples of Chinese ink on the surface of water. This steel mimics the art form with interesting results on a knife blade. Once the layers are distorted, the blade is bathed in acid etching the pattern to vivid relief.

What is the Mule Team:
For those of you unfamiliar with our Mule Team Project, it is unique to Spyderco. In-house we call knife samples designed and built for testing and evaluation Mules. We know a healthy percentage of knife users are interested in different blade steels and their performance abilities. Running with that, we released an ongoing Mule Team Project. Several times per year we unveil the same single-piece fixed blade patterned knife in a different and exotic blade steel. This lets steel-obsessed knife knuts test, try and use something normally not offered to the industry. Product runs are limited to 600 – 1000 pieces of each steel type depending on foundry requirements.

Mule Blades are leaf-shaped with a sharpened and finished PlainEdge blade but with an unfinished handle providing a do-it-yourself opportunity. The unfinished handle has a series of holes for attaching custom handle scales or for wrapping with para-cord. Each piece is sold without handle scales or a carry sheath focusing the project on the blade steel. This opens endless creative possibilities for the owner to design their own handle scale and carry options.
 

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Cool. :cool:

This may sound odd, but what I'm actually looking forward to about this one is not the damascus but the VG-10. I've really wanted a Mule in 154CM, VG-10 or something similar to use as a reference for the super-steel Mules.
 
I just received 7lbs of burl wood back from K@G for stabilization, boy am I ready for two of these.
 
Is the whole knife blank Damascus? If so why did the tang not get etched?

Could we get the etching procedure for this Damascus mix so that we can etch the tang?
 
Is the whole knife blank Damascus? If so why did the tang not get etched?

Could we get the etching procedure for this Damascus mix so that we can etch the tang?

The handle portion didn't get ground so we're only seeing the very top and bottom layers.
 
It's a beautiful blade but I'm not sure I understand the use of this steel in the mule. The mule series was created so that different steels can be compared against each other so a plain Jane VG10 blade would have allowed the steel to be tested. I would like to have one (or a pair) but don't have the money with all the cool knives about to be released.

I would love to see the steel in something like a Stretch with smooth carbon fiber. Too bad they can't have something similar but with a super hard M4 or ZDP core.
 
It's a beautiful blade but I'm not sure I understand the use of this steel in the mule.

I agree, it seems like a departure from the original spirit of the Mule Team but hey, if people like 'em and buy 'em it's all good. ;)
 
Maybe...I have been angling for a "normal" high grade steel or two to facilitate benchmarking...certainly a plain VG-10 or 154CM or perhaps S30V would have done as well. I don't know how much less expensive they would be - probably 154CM would be half this price (total WAG on that, though). I'll definitely buy one, not for the damascus but for the VG-10 edge.
 
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