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This could just as easily been titled "my mom is hard on knives". 
(She also rolled the edge of her Delica and the plain edge tip of her serrated Dragonfly, but that's a topic for another thread.)
I loaned her my RWL-34 Mule at Christmas because she's always in need of sharp kitchen knives and it's my only stainless Mule. Plus, in the true spirit of the Mule line, I figured she'd be able to do some real world testing and put it through its paces.
Here are the results:
No complaints at all on my end. I'm tickled to death she used the thing. For the record, she loves the knife in general; the shape & the sharpness. It saw mostly kitchen use but my parents just moved and the past few weeks it's been used for opening and breaking down boxes and, well, any moving type activity that needed a sharp edge bigger than her Delica. She said she was pretty sure it was sharp and tough enough to cut through dry wall. Dear Mom, Thank you for not trying to cut drywall with it.
I cleaned up the rust on the tang and scales, gave it a coat of Vaseline (for food safeness in case she wants to borrow it again), put it back together and sharpened it. Good as new except for the stains on the blade which are no big deal. From my perspective and limited sharpening experience, it sharpened about as easily as VG-10 & went from almost butter knife dull to shaving sharp fairly quickly and easily with nothing coarser than the brown Sharpmaker rods.
LC200N Mule should be here tomorrow. We'll see how that one fares in Mom's hands.
Thank you for reading this mini-review of the RWL-34 Mule.
(She also rolled the edge of her Delica and the plain edge tip of her serrated Dragonfly, but that's a topic for another thread.)
I loaned her my RWL-34 Mule at Christmas because she's always in need of sharp kitchen knives and it's my only stainless Mule. Plus, in the true spirit of the Mule line, I figured she'd be able to do some real world testing and put it through its paces.
Here are the results:
No complaints at all on my end. I'm tickled to death she used the thing. For the record, she loves the knife in general; the shape & the sharpness. It saw mostly kitchen use but my parents just moved and the past few weeks it's been used for opening and breaking down boxes and, well, any moving type activity that needed a sharp edge bigger than her Delica. She said she was pretty sure it was sharp and tough enough to cut through dry wall. Dear Mom, Thank you for not trying to cut drywall with it.
I cleaned up the rust on the tang and scales, gave it a coat of Vaseline (for food safeness in case she wants to borrow it again), put it back together and sharpened it. Good as new except for the stains on the blade which are no big deal. From my perspective and limited sharpening experience, it sharpened about as easily as VG-10 & went from almost butter knife dull to shaving sharp fairly quickly and easily with nothing coarser than the brown Sharpmaker rods.
LC200N Mule should be here tomorrow. We'll see how that one fares in Mom's hands.
Thank you for reading this mini-review of the RWL-34 Mule.
