Last but not least at all are my brown mules by Klass. They are a bit rough and crude compared to the others, kind of like the red headed step child from the other side of the tracks, but is a soddie none the less.
At 7 to 10 dollars out of Smoky Mountain the Klass brown mules are a steal. I buy alot of these as loan outs. I think I've converted at least a half dozen to a full dozen young guys to traditional knives by loaning them a brown mule for a month. One guy I loaned one to, a young 20 something, it was stock. I had not done anything to it. I loaned him the knife and some 600 paper and a small container of linseed oil and told him to rub down the handle down at night and buff it off in the morning. Well he must have got into working on the knife because at the end of a month he gave me back a new one from Smoky and kept the old one that he had polished and groomed into a nice knife. He also had bought a large and small yellow Case CV and sold off his tacticals. The brown mules by Klass have a tiny bit thinner blade than some of the other soddies, and a sharp mule will slice through cardboard breaking down boxes like you've never felt.
