MT09P – Mule Team Fixed Blade featuring Cobalt Special
MT09P will be available for sale on Tuesday, 1-Mar-2011 at 1000 (MDT)
All sales will be handled by the Spyderco Factory Outlet store online at http://www.spyderco.com.
Maximum Purchase Allowed: 2
Cost: $ $84.95 each
Domestic Shipping: Standard Shipping rates apply.
International Shipping:
International shipments will be sent out according to our International Shipping Schedule:
Shopping Cart Total: $0-$99 - Shipping/Handling Charge $25
Shopping Cart Total: $100-$399 - Shipping/Handling Charge $35
Shopping Cart Total: $400 and higher - Shipping/Handling Charge $50
International shipments will be via USPS International Priority Mail. Please be aware, we will have limited tracking capabilities. Tracking once it leaves the US is dependent upon the postal services outside the US and their ability to provide it. However, this will completely eliminate UPS Brokerage Fees.
About Cobalt Special:
Takefu is a premier Japanese steel company specializing in the production of steels used for household and industrial cutlery. They produce blades using clad steel. Clad steels are a composite of different metals some hard, some softer, fused or bonded to each other. Paring different steel types together elevates performance by combining the best characteristics of each material and where the steels overlay each other, a fine Hamon or line develops. Traditional Japanese swords featured clad steels, layering tough harder steel with softer bendable ones which resulted in a steel combination that made them difficult to break or bend. Spyderco’s MT09 Mule Team is Takefu’s Cobalt Special steel enveloped within slices of SUS420J2. The two steels laminated as one boost toughness, improve corrosion resistance and generate lasting sharpness in a blade that is relatively easy to sharpen.
What is the Mule Team:
For those of you unfamiliar with our Mule Team Project, it is unique to Spyderco. In-house we call knife samples designed and built for testing and evaluation Mules. We know a healthy percentage of knife users are interested in different blade steels and their performance abilities. Running with that, we released an ongoing Mule Team Project. Several times per year we unveil the same single-piece fixed blade patterned knife in a different and exotic blade steel. This lets steel-obsessed knife knuts test, try and use something normally not offered to the industry. Product runs are limited to 600 – 1000 pieces of each steel type depending on foundry requirements.
Mule Blades are leaf-shaped with a sharpened and finished PlainEdge blade but with an unfinished handle providing a do-it-yourself opportunity. The unfinished handle has a series of holes for attaching custom handle scales or for wrapping with para-cord. Each piece is sold without handle scales or a carry sheath focusing the project on the blade steel. This opens endless creative possibilities for the owner to design their own handle scale and carry options.
*The composition for Cobalt Special will be added to the steel chart here on our site very soon. We're working on it now.
MT09P Mule Team featuring Cobalt Special
MT09P Mule Team featuring Cobalt Special
There is nothing more important than this one day.
So what is Cobalt Special like? Nothing is said about it in the description.
Our reason is quite satisfied, in 999 cases out of every 1000 of us, if we can find a few arguments that will do to recite in case our credulity is criticized by someone else. Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
- William James, from The Will to Believe, a guest lecture at Yale University in 1897
- William James, from The Will to Believe, a guest lecture at Yale University in 1897
This cobalt blue is sure a mystery. I searched the forum and googled it and found out it is said to be a cutlery steel. It is used to make high end barbers scissors, Falkniven(sp?) used it in a knife and it has cobalt in it. The steel is not in the table of the 2011 catalog.
I think a little marketing would be in order before this goes on sale.
I think a little marketing would be in order before this goes on sale.
Our reason is quite satisfied, in 999 cases out of every 1000 of us, if we can find a few arguments that will do to recite in case our credulity is criticized by someone else. Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
- William James, from The Will to Believe, a guest lecture at Yale University in 1897
- William James, from The Will to Believe, a guest lecture at Yale University in 1897
[Edit: never mind, that was the MT-07]
sal wrote:Hi Ben,
We have a few in the works that will be close as to when they are finished. The first one finished will be the next run.
There is a special Takefu Damascus that has a VG-10 core and some interesting purpose to their layers.
We have a piece made with Hitachi Aogami super blue.
We have a few new special Carpenter steels.
We have a Takefu Cobalt special.
sal
Will be on the lookout for suitable scales in the next couple of days.
Is this considered "Blue" steel? From what I understand Blue steel has better edge retention, is harder, more resistant to corrosion amongst other qualities compared to white papered steel but I can't find any info on this Takefu steel being labeled as Blue steel.
I think Mulefun isn't too far off the mark. This Mule won't have a Damascus looking blade but the clad steel used by Takefu gives a knife the same properties as a Damascus blade. i.e. the qualities of different steels used in one blade give it more advantages over using one type of steel in a blade. Only thing is, this Mule won't have the purdy pattern on it.
Is this considered "Blue" steel? From what I understand Blue steel has better edge retention, is harder, more resistant to corrosion amongst other qualities compared to white papered steel but I can't find any info on this Takefu steel being labeled as Blue steel.
I think Mulefun isn't too far off the mark. This Mule won't have a Damascus looking blade but the clad steel used by Takefu gives a knife the same properties as a Damascus blade. i.e. the qualities of different steels used in one blade give it more advantages over using one type of steel in a blade. Only thing is, this Mule won't have the purdy pattern on it.
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I only know Cobalt as an alloy in steels for cutters and drill bits, like Crucible's M42; it's supposed to increase "red hardness" (wear resistance/thermal stability.) Cobalt drill bits are the only ones I bother with for making holes in hardened steel.
There's also Stellite and the like, which are *extremely* high in wear resistance--the description doesn't sound like it's describing that extreme of an alloy (Stellite isn't really steel) but It'd be very cool to try!
There's also Stellite and the like, which are *extremely* high in wear resistance--the description doesn't sound like it's describing that extreme of an alloy (Stellite isn't really steel) but It'd be very cool to try!
—Daniel Jackson
