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Is there anyone here smarter than I am who can explain how this could possibly work: https://youtu.be/dTyeLn7kt08 I get how it could work on a knife with axe-like geometry (like the ER he demonstrates it on), but Im not seeing how it could work on a knife meant to function like a knife. Bonus video...

To turn this into sort of a controlled experiment (rather than simply whining), I just knocked one of the other mules (a PMA11) onto the cement floor from the same tabletop six times with effectively no damage -- actually the point did suffer in one drop, but not anything I cannot sharpen out and n...

Hi Clint, Welcome to our forum. I made the decision not to publish Rc decades ago, simply to avoid argument. There are many people that have their own opinion on Rc or limited understanding about how the hardness fits into the cutting edge puzzle. I believe much of that has been mentioned here. It'...

You guys were getting better deals on Bucks than I was. My 119 cost me $59.99 in 2001. My 110 cost $49.99 in 2011. Both are only $15 more now. That's pretty good inflation-proofing for 15-20 year's time. But I figure Buck has a few other things going for them, too. Brand recognition, volume, availab...

...presented with a new material that is ridiculously hard to sharpen correctly they tend to forget about the "mule team" labeling... Picking this out in particular, because it was only in sharpening it that I realized how different from steel it was. It was weird because when reading the...

Chapstick seems to hold up well. I think it’s a blend of wax and petroleum jelly. Yeah, chapstick is my favorite. Cheap and easy to apply and is really stable. Plus it's non-toxic, so that's nice to not have to worry about washing my hands afterwards. Barricade also works well from what I have seen...

I did not have the fortune of disposable income to spend on this mule, which I've looked forward to for some time. This is one of the most interesting objects Spyderco's released, and I imagine it was challenging to manufacture. I think it's fantastic it was developed and offered for testing, and h...

So... Since this thread has attracted so much attention from the man himself, I have a question. It's not a loaded question except in the sense I personally prefer one model to the other...

Why is a Shaman $100 more than a Manix 2?

Could you elaborate more on that? What are the other companies of which you speak and what are they doing? sal This question wasn't directed at me but I will comment. Here is one of my purchases this week, a Vosteed Nightshade. This is a $70 knife with Nitro-V steel, liner lock, bearings, skeletoni...

I had what I consider a positive sharpening experience with the HIC Mule this evening and wanted to share what I learned along the way. When I first got this knife it wasn’t super sharp, but also not as bad as some people seem to have gotten. I was able to get it to the point it would shave arm hai...

Hi Kennbr, Again, you have my apology for your disappointment and for anything that we might have done to confuse you regarding the HIC Mule. I'm also sorry that you lost money on the deal. That was not our intention in doing the project. For you or for Sndmn. We don't really Market Mules as we wou...

Hi Sndmn11, I'm sorry for your disappointment and not meeting your expectations. I don't think we hyped the product. We shared what experience we had. There was a lot of discussion about the material on this forum. I' also sorry that you feel your "investment" in the Mule team was that we...

Larrin's findings on front end sharpness loss are here https://knifesteelnerds.com/2018/11/26/steel-edge-retention2/ specifically in the "Initial Edge Wear" section and also in the summary. Because the 10V knife is different I sort of disregarded it in my initial response since if the geo...

Is there a chance the K294 and 10V just had some minuscule burr that the T15 didn't and thus the sharpness drop-off was so acute? Lately I keep seeing something along those lines in my knives - I can't see any irregularities on my edges after sharpening, even less so after stropping (I use a 20x an...

The Bolatron sheath I got for my Mule was pretty loose, and I heard you could put the kydex into a toaster oven to heat it up and make the fit tighter. But I didn't think about it until I had already stuck it into the hot sheath that when I heated it to 300 degrees that might be hot enough to ruin t...

Very interesting results, thank you for doing the work. I wonder if what you are experiencing is due to how these steels respond to the particular sharpening or because T15 is harder. Not sure that it is, but likely. CATRA measures wear resistance, but the dulling you are experiencing is most likel...

Also, for giggles, I tried to see if I could use my hardest waterstones to do anything, maybe polish, or rid myself of some of the toothiness. As expected, absolutely not. Don't even bother. I got a nice mirror polish from my Shapton Kuromaku 2k. It seemed to get a lot of the micro-chipping out as ...

https://i.ibb.co/yP1LQX8/PXL-20240218-141420443-NIGHT.jpg https://i.ibb.co/RYTnh13/PXL-20240218-141723810-NIGHT.jpg https://i.ibb.co/HFxFJMh/PXL-20240218-141646359-NIGHT.jpg https://i.ibb.co/k613Kdf/Screenshot-20240219-043347.png Okay, so, about 1400 feet of cardboard cut later... I have really com...

I got mine today. It's so dull that it won't cut through construction paper. If the factory can't send me a usable edge, I'm not going to waste my time and diamonds on creating one with soklme random exotic material. I'm just weirded out that they would see that edge and say "yes - we will def...

Hi All, I posted this on Bladeforums, Spyderco sub-forum. I thought to share here, as there is more Mule activity here; I'm a bit surprised that most of the comments concerning the HIC Mule is comparing sharpness, that it doesn't get as sharp as steel. I was hoping that most would see this as a new...