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To answer sal and piggyback of your reply. I used my Mules to cook for the past year or 2 (MagnaCut then other steels like RWL34 and SUS410). But the geometry and size slow down the process. Since I'm in love with the Mule team handle shape, I made myself my "perfect" kitchen knife.

I just had ...

I don't know if this will be of any interest to anybody here, but I did a Photoshop mockup to get a sense of how the standard Mule handle would work with a few culinary blade shapes. I like the Mule handle a lot and like the idea of using existing scales. I think the 5" utility knife in particular ...

sal wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 21, 2026 12:57 pm

Thanx FirstPenguin,

Thanx for sharing. Hope you hang around to assist in our R&D Mule projects,

sal

Hi Sal,

I'd be happy to help out. One of my busy seasons is rapidly approaching but I'll do my best to check in.

Hi FirstPenguin,

Welcome to our forum.

I would like to hear more about:

1) How you can tell the sie of the carbides in kitchen knives?
2) The concept of different shapes and how to do that?
3) What thickness are you thinking?

sal


Hi Sal,

Thanks! To answer your questions:

1) I can tell by ...

I wonder if a "Kitchen Knife type Mule" would be an R&D development project would be effective?

sal


Hi Sal,

As someone who makes kitchen knives I would find this very interesting. There's been quite the progression of chef knife enthusiast -> handle making -> knife making/smithing in the last ...

Gail brought up an interesting question; "How many of you did not get one?

sal


I was, unfortunately, far from a network connection the day the Magnamax Mule was released and also quite busy. Life be like that sometimes.

To address this issue, it may be worth doing multiple releases of the ...

sal wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 20, 2024 5:23 pm

Hi FirstPenguin,

Welcome to our forum.

sal

Thanks, Sal!

Having a few kitchen knives in shirogami (White steel), I've come to appreciate it and think it would be very interesting to see the patinas that would develop on a Mule. Doubly so for a Blue #1 or Superblue version.

Thanks for doing this! I was on the fence about getting the T15 version, but I've just put an order in. The AEB-L version was my first Mule and I like it a lot. As time goes on I've also come to appreciate knives that will retain that "freshly sharpened' feel. I'm really looking forward to trying ...