Well, my time's up, and it's going off today, so here's my thoughts on my time with the MUDD
My Memorial Day weekend started off early Saturday morning, with the arrival of the MUDD. Like a kid on Christmas, I took my trusty Blur out of my pocket, and cut into the box. There was the big ZT Serious Missions box tucked safely inside. Oh Boy! Time to go back into the rotation case Blur. Sorry, but I’ve got a week with this new puppy! Slade had sent me an email earlier telling me of some slight vertical blade play he noticed when he got it. He said it didn’t seem to affect the lock up, and he trusted it. Yep, there was a slight bit of play, probably from being tested hard by the others. I made sure it was locking up solid and away we went!
INITIAL IMPRESSIONS
Wow. This knife is a handful. The locking system allows you to open the knife in a number of different ways, including a solid opening from a pivot down handle down position. Pull back on the lock, a little flip of the wrist, and “clank”…it’s locked! It closes just as impressively, and once comfortable with it I could open and close it with a slight wrist movement and opening and releasing the lock at the right moment. One thing that really impressed me was the way the blade seemed to almost magnetically close up into the handle. This is a neat lock! Any way you grip the MUDD, it’s comfortable and feels right. The round thumb ears (that’s what they look like to me!) give you the ability to choke up on the knife for additional leverage, which came in handy later on. The sealed pivot is really nice, and proved invaluable later! The scales give plenty of grip, and the lock was positioned so you could get to it from any you held the MUDD, without the fear of accidentally releasing it while in use. The pocket clip was comfortable and discreet. The only thing you notice is the glass breaker on the top. There is another issue with the clip, which I’ll address later. The first thing I did was to make some comparisons to another workhorse, the 0200. The MUDD feels heavy and solid, but weighed in at 6.8 ounces versus the 0200’s 8.0 ounces.
The length, both open and closed, is nearly identical to the 0200.
The MUDD measured 9 inches open, with a 3 ½ inch blade. However, the useful cutting edge is 3 ¾ inches long…it’s a math thing.
OFF TO GIVE THIS PUPPY A WORKOUT
Since it was a holiday weekend, I was given my holiday weekend “honey do” list. OK, I need a knife for most of this stuff, so cool! There won’t be a lot of pictures of these activities, as it’s kinda hard to hold a chainsaw, work on a 20 foot ladder, etc. and hold a camera at the same time. First off was running a new 20 amp service to the garage. 200 feet of 12/3, some boxes, outlets and I’m good to go. After pulling the wire from one of the service boxes in the house and getting it to the garage via the attic, I needed to run the wire around the wall. Thankfully, it’s open stud construction. Out comes the MUDD. I used it to notch out about 24 studs, so I could get the wire to sit flush with the stud face. I did these in a couple of different ways, just to test the knife. Some I chopped out using it like a carpenter’s hatchet and some I cut with in a more deliberate manner. The latter is where the “ears” I mentioned earlier were nice. I could choke up on the knife, and get a lot of leverage cutting into seasoned wall studs without fear of my thumb slipping off the blade The MUDD was perfect for the job, as it notched the studs and stripped the wire with ease. That job’s done so on to the next. The next one was to scrape the garage windows and prep then for paint. Ha Ha! Forget the paint scraper, out came the MUDD! I worked on those 2 windows for about 4 hours, scraping paint and digging out old glazing. It never even thought about not liking what it was doing. By now, I figured it could use a touch up on the blade, but no, it still had a relatively sharp edge. Time to cut up some firewood. The MUDD didn’t do a lot here except for stripping some smaller branches clean, but after finishing the job, I took a break and it gave me a neat backdrop for some pictures.
but im thinking of farming out to mr coppola for the sequels. and it wasn't so much the pants i ruined as my hand when i half-waved it and went for an ice-pick grip and got a handful of blade tip but i didn't grab hard enough to spurt or anything. i find if the pocket has a strong seam and loose materials everywhere else its an almost 100% reliable way of opening the knife. it was funny giving one of my co-workers the ram (in their hand) and me with the mudd in my pocket (not too deep seated, and my hand on it) and doing old fashioned quick draws. i never lost 
mine has the same problem with the clip,even though mine has the clip without the glassbreaker. i like the bentover clip design, i think it should be closer to the grip and not have that gap for your pocket to grab! 
Gotta do some work on one of the barns in KY this summer...that will either make it or break it, literally.