Salt Millie 2. Aka Navy aka Frogman

[Fireman]

Thank you Spyderco for hearing my pleas for a salt Millie! Can we get a Salt Millie as well as the Salt Millie 2?
I will have to add one of these to my collection as well as the Salt Shaman. Can we rename it the Salt Shaker?
The Salt Millie could be great if modded with my wire breaker idea for the Wildland Firefighter knife.

[Evil D]

I have to say I'm impressed with their resistance from leaning into the whole military role thing. This could've been called a Seal or Navy or something water role related but I guess just Military is an established name already. They probably talked about this a long time ago and settled on Salt to just tell everyone that it's a water capable knife and leave it at that.

[Jeb]

It's going to be a have to have for sure.

[Fireman]

Apparently you can laser the surface of metal to create super hydrophobic surface to prevent water from getting in contact with the surface to begin with. If you did this super hydrophobic treatment to an already stainless steel you would truly have something quite interesting. If you dunked the steel in water it simply would not let the water and dissolved salts to come in contact to begin the corrosion process to begin with. That would make for a good “Salt” knife and could be interesting for those on missions where they need to spend days exposed to the elements. It’s not cheap though. What’s interesting is the surface traps carbon from the air so it gets some kind of hydrophobic patina. [googlevideo][/googlevideo]

[Evil D]

Apparently you can laser the surface of metal to create super hydrophobic surface to prevent water from getting in contact with the surface to begin with. If you did this super hydrophobic treatment to an already stainless steel you would truly have something quite interesting. If you dunked the steel in water it simply would not let the water and dissolved salts to come in contact to begin the corrosion process to begin with. That would make for a good “Salt” knife and could be interesting for those on missions where they need to spend days exposed to the elements. It’s not cheap though. What’s interesting is the surface traps carbon from the air so it gets some kind of hydrophobic patina. [googlevideo][/googlevideo]

This would be really awesome if it could be done in a cost effective enough way. Scratches and wear over time would eventually reduce the effect though.

[Fireman]

That was done 10 years ago, so hopefully they may have gotten some progress and with the advance of all the lasers these days maybe you could do it at home. The carbon buildup on the surface is quite interesting. Maybe that would be what would scratch off and I could continue to build up carbon layers.

[vivi]

Thank you Spyderco for hearing my pleas for a salt Millie!

why are there multiple people acting like the military salt hasn't been out already for close to a year? am I missing something?

[Fireman]

This one is Wasp colored and no DLC I am hoping against hope that they will do a Salt Millie 1 or a truly non corrosive knife with Ceramic blade. Perhaps a Balisong design with a ceramic blade to simplify the mechanism and have replacement blades. That could be a fun swapable mule blade project. You just need some good diamond drill bits and willingness to sacrifice some mules

[vivi]

the DLC S30V Military 1's, especially the CQI versions with coated hardware, are pretty close to a salt.

[CDEP]

the DLC S30V Military 1's, especially the CQI versions with coated hardware, are pretty close to a salt.

Yup. That's the only Millie I have for that reason.

The Millie 2s are piling up over here, and looks like I'll be making room for one more.

[toml4185]

I am still waiting for Millie 2 Salts to be back in stock. Hopefully that will happen before we get around to making Millie 1 Salts

[Doc Dan]

That video is something that SEF would post. Highly interesting, indeed. But, if it takes an hour to do one inch it isn't practical for general knife production.

[Fireman]

I am still waiting for Millie 2 Salts to be back in stock. Hopefully that will happen before we get around to making Millie 1 Salts

I have the Carbon Fiber S90V M2 model but would still justify having a Salt model.

[Fireman]

That video is something that SEF would post. Highly interesting, indeed. But, if it takes an hour to do one inch it isn't practical for general knife production.

It was invented 10 years ago so I bet now with the proliferation of commercial and consumer lasers to the market that you could mass produce this more cheaply now. Just use the Hydrophobic setting and let it do its magic. The devil is in the coding.