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There are many ways to answer this question. But first, I have to ask: what day of the week is it?

I tend to gravitate to a 3.5 inch blade. I most often carry a PM2 or a Shaman. I like the compression lock.
But some days I carry a Manix, and I never regret it when I do.

And then when my mood ...

I'll have to grab some pics but, my garage looks like a tornado hit it atm.

I know I have a small pile of ringed gidgee somewhere :hand-over-mouth


That's the kind of workshop where things get done!

Well, actually both styles work. Some people are productive and somehow get amazing things ...

I start to wonder about Rex-121. I did some searching and reading last night. Maybe it is possible to get too carried away with this business of edge retention? A balancing property is "sharpenability" -- if that is even a word. Some of the steels that I enjoy a lot are steels with a balance of ...

I have the leather sheath. Mine must be at least 5 years old. With a K294 mule in it right now.

I think it is great, and I think it is absolutely worth the price -- I was overwhelmed by the quality and workmanship.
it was more than I expected and does its job well.

I'm not at all surprised by what Sal said. I sort of figured that the price of the Sage indicated both the cost of the material and the difficulty of working with it. Nobody expects Spyderco to do a Rex-121 mule and loose money on it. At least I certainly don't.

Exotic steels are what the mule team ...

More, more! I am eager to see how you do things. Colored pins are something I never thought of.

Well, it would be hard to pass on a Damascus Mule if one came along.

Seeing the recent Spyderco byte got me thinking about a Rex 121 mule. I didn't think that one had passed me by and I thought I had seen it asked for. Seeing the MSRP on the Rex121 Sage (at $340 to $400) does suggest that as a mule this might cost more than the usual amazing $75 bargain.

But I would ...

I use a mule every day. I have one in the kitchen I also have a couple handy here on my desk.

I've been using the one at my desk to trim flashing from small plastic boxes I use for my mineral collection.
Interestingly, I find that the PMA11 blade I have here works better than the VG XEOS alongside ...

What will happen with my busted blade? Well if I had powered diamond tooling, I would reshape the tip. It would take forever by hand. I am still scheming on this. Once I had the tip reshaped, I would be interested in experimenting with sharpening the edge. I expect the truth to be that this won ...

Well, I'm not a veteran, but I think a 40 percent discount is still a heck of a nice nod to those who served.

And of course Spyderco doesn't need to do it at all.

But nobody likes changes. There are places I used to drive to and camp whenever I wanted to that are now "fee areas" in the National ...

I've been hiding in my cave since first posting. I'm over the disgruntlement of having dropped and broken this blade. And I thought I would ramble on here and share some thoughts.

A dive knife? I would think not. I would want something really tough and bulletproof. At this point I think maybe ...

Well, I was almost expecting this. I have had the HIC mule (alongside 2 other mules) on my desk.
Sort of "sheathed" between books in an on shelf bookshelf.

I've been using Mr. HIC to open mail and packages and for other light duty.

Well just now, while opening mail I bumped it off the desk onto ...

Well, I have always viewed the mule team project as a unique way to participate in some "cutting edge" knife stuff (pardon the awful pun). I was happy to get one of these HIC blades as part of my education no matter how it all turned out. I guess they are all kinds of different ways to view the ...

I ran home from work to place an order only to realize I was an hour early! Doh! Left and came back 15 minutes to release. Cart ready with a set of scales. Five minutes from release, my internet service goes down. Doh! Reset router...no dice. Release + 10 minutes, Plan B used phone connection ...

I bought this in preparation of this mule:
https://i.imgur.com/wQdn6HN.jpg


I'll start out with this (if there is any chips) and then work down to the diamond or CBN triangles or the CBN plates. Just realized that my Hapstone will be useless with it's magnetic base :rofl


You aren't ...

I never saw any actual timeouts, but each "form submission" had about a 25 second wait before it launched the next part of the process. It pays to have gone through this on other drops to know what to expect and to -- above all -- Just be patient.

Went through in 7 minutes. Long waits at each stage and a couple screw ups along the way on my part (like not logging in first) but I see the order complete and really this had less drama than other "drops" that I can remember. Pretty smooth.

I decided that 1 was enough.

So I'll actually be ...

I have NO idea how this will work out as a knife. But I am certainly curious and will go for 1 just to find out. Maybe 2 depending on my mood and how I feel at the time about spending that much $$$. Not exactly pocket change for me anyway.

But I think it is really cool that Spyderco is doing this ...