Mules as Slipjoints/Folders?

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Anyone ever convert a Mule Team knife to a folder? Slipjoints seem to be easier, but using an existing knife base (Tenacious, PM2, Sprint Run, etc.) would be cool as well.
 
It seems like it would be easier to fabricate a frame lock than try to cram it into an existing knife base. Cut off the handle of the mule, drill a hole through it and framelocks are a stupidly simple locking mechanism
 
Looks like it would be simple to adapt one to a friction folder.
 
ribstabsheart said:
Anyone ever convert a Mule Team knife to a folder? Slipjoints seem to be easier, but using an existing knife base (Tenacious, PM2, Sprint Run, etc.) would be cool as well.
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It'd be a b@stard of a job reworking the hardened tang.
 
The Mule Team's shape is basically the same as the Tenacious. A Maxamet folder would be interesting...
 
What if they made tenacious blades in the various mule steels? Then you could just swap the mule blade into the handle.....
 
I know. I wish they would change this. It's virtually impossible to "break" a knife from dissasembly. Maybe strip a screw yes, or bend a washer....but that's all stuff that spyderco can cover with minimal cost to them.
 
gglotz83 said:
I know. I wish they would change this. It's virtually impossible to "break" a knife from dissasembly. Maybe strip a screw yes, or bend a washer....but that's all stuff that spyderco can cover with minimal cost to them.
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Agreed, I take my often carried knives apart every 1-2 months and have never had a parts or assembly issue. Most people who care enough to take a knife apart are probably careful enough to get it back together in more or less the same condition they got it.
 
42pixels said:
Agreed, I take my often carried knives apart every 1-2 months and have never had a parts or assembly issue. Most people who care enough to take a knife apart are probably careful enough to get it back together in more or less the same condition they got it.
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Agreed. Taking a knife apart doesn't require special skills or advanced training. I'm pretty sure I could teach a 10 year old to do it in about 5 minutes. Lock backs can be a little tricky...but you are not going to break anything.
 
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gglotz83 said:
Agreed. Taking a knife apart doesn't require special skills or advanced training. I'm pretty sure I could teach a 10 year old to do it in about 5 minutes. Lock backs can be a little tricky...but you are not going to break anything.
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The number of people who show up here with knives they've broken or just can't disassemble is surprisingly high. People seem to regularly break parts in Delicas, Enduras and Manixes. Maybe it's like common sense - not so common when you get right down to it.
 
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