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- Sun Jun 02, 2024 11:18 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Reveal 15 - Live!
- Replies: 128
- Views: 5943
Re: Reveal 15 - Live!
I have no interest in a an 8Cr13MoV Tenacious, but I would certainly love one with a titanium frame lock. If the blade from M4 Tenacious model can be swapped out for the 8Cr13MoV blade on the upcoming titanium model, I might just have to spend about $300 to frankenstein me up a monster of a Tenaciou...
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 8:21 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Reveal 15 - Live!
- Replies: 128
- Views: 5943
Re: Reveal 15 - Live!
This is the weighty question--pun most definitely intended--I have been pondering since the reveal. But if I'm being honest with myself, I already know the answer: both of them.
- Sat May 11, 2024 10:26 pm
- Forum: Mule Team Discussion
- Topic: GRX-810
- Replies: 9
- Views: 569
GRX-810
I just read this article and thought, "hey, maybe that stuff could be used for a new mule? Or would it only work for handles?"
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facili ... s-economy/
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facili ... s-economy/
- Sun May 05, 2024 2:58 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: What "Other" is in your pocket???
- Replies: 9904
- Views: 1584350
Re: What "Other" is in your pocket???
If not a Spyderco, then I'm most likely to have ain my pocket a Microtech Ultratech, UTX-85, or lately an MSI--that's their new manual design with the RAM-Lok mechanism, the Microtech version of, and improvement over, the Axis lock. I also have a couple Kizers that I'm fond of, a small Sabenza that ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:12 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Post up your Rit dye projects..
- Replies: 529
- Views: 157165
Re: Post up your Rit dye projects..
I dyed my Salt the most unfortunate shade of pea green. Here's my unfortunate plum purple with and odd hint of brown Yojumbo scales. The color was supposed to be "smokey blue"--that's probably why there's a little brown in it--but I mixed the dye too strong, which was especially foolish o...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:11 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Shaman w/ XHP & Black Micarta
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2461
Shaman w/ XHP & Black Micarta
I was browsing the BladeHQ site and noticed that just today they put up a "coming soon" page for a Shaman with black micarta scales and an XHP blade. Does anyone know anything about that? More specifically, is it a sprint run, a new variant, like the Cru-wear/brown micarta line, or somethi...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:54 pm
- Forum: Spyderco Picture Gallery
- Topic: Endela appreciation thread
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9106
Re: Endela appreciation thread
Ever since I got the custom scales from suingab and a Lynch clip installed, this hasn't just become my favorite Spyderco knife, it's become my all-time favorite knife, at least in terms of pure utility. Love the size, love wharncliffe blade shape, and LOVE the K390 blade steel, which, besides holdin...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:27 pm
- Forum: Mule Team Discussion
- Topic: How about a PM60 Mule?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3725
Re: How about a PM60 Mule?
Apologies if I'm not the first to suggest it, but I recently came across a Kunwu folder with PM60 blade steel. According to my handy Knife Steel Composition phone app, PM60 is an "extremely high alloy, high speed tool steel. Capable of very high red hot hardness, up to 68-70 HRC. Highly wear r...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:09 pm
- Forum: Mule Team Discussion
- Topic: How about a PM60 Mule?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3725
Re: How about a PM60 Mule?
Hi Hatuletoh, Interesting chemistry. Do you know of any companies making a cutting tool(s) with any of the versions? sal No sir, I'm afraid I don't. My only knowledge about steel has come from what I've learned in the few years since I developed a raging knife addiction. But as you say, the chemist...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:09 pm
- Forum: Mule Team Discussion
- Topic: How about a PM60 Mule?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3725
How about a PM60 Mule?
Apologies if I'm not the first to suggest it, but I recently came across a Kunwu folder with PM60 blade steel. According to my handy Knife Steel Composition phone app, PM60 is an "extremely high alloy, high speed tool steel. Capable of very high red hot hardness, up to 68-70 HRC. Highly wear re...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 7:42 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Post up your Rit dye projects..
- Replies: 529
- Views: 157165
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 7:49 pm
- Forum: Mule Team Discussion
- Topic: Your thoughts on the MT leather sheath?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1933
Re: Your thoughts on the MT leather sheath?
Thank you, gentlemen, that's very helpful and I believe you've sold me on the leather sheath. Being a Spyderco product I figured it wasn't a complete piece of junk, but there's a lot of space on the continuum between "complete piece of junk" and "sheath I'd actually want to use,"...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:34 pm
- Forum: Mule Team Discussion
- Topic: MT40P – HIC Mule Team Dropping Soon!
- Replies: 248
- Views: 32366
Re: MT40P – HIC Mule Team Dropping Soon!
Oh, one other thing: as advertised, my mule did not fit the standard MT Boltaron sheath...until I put the Spyderco G10 scales on it. For whatever reason, with the scales on it fits quite well. A little tighter than other mules, but not so much that it can't be easily drawn with one hand. Anyone else...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:24 pm
- Forum: Mule Team Discussion
- Topic: MT40P – HIC Mule Team Dropping Soon!
- Replies: 248
- Views: 32366
Re: MT40P – HIC Mule Team Dropping Soon!
Mine arrived today. Edge just draw cuts paper but that's about it. I suppose I will end up trying to put it to stones sometime to see if it can be improved. The edge is even and without any other obvious flaw though. Right now I'm kind of with Bolster's thoughts of "strange and interesting&quo...
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 7:04 pm
- Forum: Mule Team Discussion
- Topic: MT40P – HIC Mule Team Dropping Soon!
- Replies: 248
- Views: 32366
Re: MT40P – HIC Mule Team Dropping Soon!
My mules have arrived. All the way from Switzerland, interestingly. If it had been mentioned elsewhere that that is where they were made, I missed it. Can't wait to cut some stuff.
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:10 pm
- Forum: Mule Team Discussion
- Topic: You got your Ceramic Mule. How you gonna sharpen it?
- Replies: 173
- Views: 16052
Re: You got your Ceramic Mule. How you gonna sharpen it?
go slow, be patient, and remember that the bur will be very, very delicate--one pass too many could wreck it, so check the edge often, alternate sides frequently, and hold the angle precisely. Slow and steady wins the sharpening race. Please clarify? Ceramic creates a burr? Don't want to wreck the ...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 3:46 pm
- Forum: Mule Team Discussion
- Topic: You got your Ceramic Mule. How you gonna sharpen it?
- Replies: 173
- Views: 16052
Re: You got your Ceramic Mule. How you gonna sharpen it?
I plan to do the same thing I always do, just slower. (I have been freehanding on diamond hones since 1980.) This was exactly what I was going to say. Well, except that I haven't been freehanding on diamond stones since 1980. My big projects for that year were standing up and swallowing solid food....
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:28 am
- Forum: Mule Team Discussion
- Topic: MT40P – HIC Mule Team Dropping Soon!
- Replies: 248
- Views: 32366
Re: MT40P – HIC Mule Team Dropping Soon!
Got my two mules (not for Sister Sarah) and a sheath without issue. It's always stressful waiting for the next page to load during the check-out process, but I didn't have any time-outs, just long load times. Doesn't an online checkout seem to have so many superfluous steps when one is in a hurry an...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 9:45 am
- Forum: Mule Team Discussion
- Topic: Your thoughts on the MT leather sheath?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1933
Re: Your thoughts on the MT leather sheath?
Thank you, gentlemen, that's very helpful and I believe you've sold me on the leather sheath. Being a Spyderco product I figured it wasn't a complete piece of junk, but there's a lot of space on the continuum between "complete piece of junk" and "sheath I'd actually want to use,"...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: Mule Team Discussion
- Topic: Your thoughts on the MT leather sheath?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1933
Your thoughts on the MT leather sheath?
For anyone who's used one, how do you like the mule team leather sheath? As the upcoming HIC mule will not fit the standard Boltaron sheath, I was considering purchasing one of the leather ones rather than the HIC mule-specific Boltaron model, my thought being that maybe I'd rather have a sheath tha...