Spyderco Mule Team 07 Damascus

just finished mine two , here photos .
two tone g10 with white spacer .
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LorenzoL said:
It is not real Damascus, though.
From the Spyderco site: "... 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..."

The Damascus serving only a purely decorative purpose, it is not a Mule, either (To me a Mule is a no-nonsense knife meant to test different steels. Maybe the concept has evolved...).
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It kind of depends on your point of view. Granted, it isn't real Damascus steel, but then very little (if any) of the Damascus available today is real Damascus. As far as it being a Mule goes, the Mule Team knives are a platform for testing steels. That doesn't mean just us ELU's testing them, either. The BushcraftUK was originally supposed to be 52100, but got switched to O-1 after MT01P came out in that steel. I suspect the manufacturing problems encountered on the Mule played a part in changing the steel on the Bushcraft, although there were other reasons as well. Certain persons who shall remain nameless (you know who you are, Paul. ;)) have been asking for Damascus Spydies for years, and this could be a field test for materials and processes to fulfill that wish. No matter how good it looks, it has to perform if Sal is going to put his name on it, so I hope I'm not the only one taking one of these to work.
 
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