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From what I understand, it is a titanium electroplate.

The Police came in uncoated aluminum as well as Tufram coated aluminum. My second Police Model purchase was a fleabay win of two "stainless serrated" Spyderco knives. One proved to be a slab-side first generation, the other an uncoated aluminum that I thought might be a fake until I did some researc...

The Probe was made for this stuff, but they're kind hard to find. Among more normal models, I have a Mariner Salt that would get the job.

At least I know one was made. It has been so long that I had forgotten I asked.

Yep. By the time MT12 rolled out, they had forgotten MT02. Kind of like they keep saying the first Police Model was hollow ground. I have five of them and they are all flat saber grind, not hollow.

But how do they keep the warning label on the sunlight there? Or is U.V. exposure the only thing that doesn't cause cancer in California?

Aside from the holes being smaller on the 52100 Mule, the handles have been remarkably consistent, at least on mine. But the scale maker would doubtless be held liable if there was a sharp edge sticking out, so better safe than sorry. As to the second point, "digital rounding" is used in my dictiona...

There was a discussion on Bladeforums a while back that indicated the maker was no longer able to do hollow grinds (I gathered their machine had worn out and was not repairable). I hope the change referred to here is just a switch from hollow saber to flat saber grind like the first generation and n...

Well, I did get in on the ground floor, and I've followed it all along. Advantage of being an old fart, I guess.

That's why I've never bought commercial scales for any of mine. I'd much rather they were a little oversize so I could sand them down to fit, but every one I've seen has been undersize.

I dug out my old Mark2 last night and checked. The spine side of the handle lines up with the spine of the blade except for the flare at the guard. The edge side of the handle curves in a bit more. Mine is Camillus made, probably mid to late 70s.

Like I said, I was just curious about the reasoning.

I believe that creating availability is the only reasonable option. That's easy to say when it isn't your capital tied up in inventory that isn't moving and won't generate significant profit when it does. Anybody have a reliable crystal ball they can accurately foretell the future with? You can pro...

Thanks to Larry, I'm kinda hooked already! I picked "just the steels I want" because it's a great template for new steels that we haven't seen yet (sometimes) I'm curious how some of the Spy27 models were released in folders already, but just recently the Mule? Isn't that backwards from what the Mu...

I'm still in for 2 of whatever they put out.

I guess I'm lucky. I live in a small town where 15% of the population works in a meat packing plant, so people don't get uptight when they see a knife. I built an ugly kydex sheath (folded or "taco" style) added a Spyderco G-clip I had and clipped it horizontally on the back of my belt.

I agree, there really isn't a definitive Bowie knife.

If you read the historical references on Jim Bowie's sandbar fight, the knife he was using (made for him by his brother Resyn) was basically a large butcher knife. Straight spine, no guard. Yet we all expect a clip point and a guard on a "Bowie knife". Edit to add a picture, because we all like pict...

The only ones I've seen were on Forged in Fire on the History channel. It was the final "weapon" a couple of episodes back. Pretty impressive.

I just wondered if there was some specific rationale that I was missing.

The Drew does have a slight recurve, and since the blade is half the thickness of the Respect it cuts much better, but if I had to pick one to use for an axe, it wouldn't be Damascus. I find the handle of the Respect a bit small for a blade of this size and weight, one big reason I was considering r...