Hey folks. I was taking a few photos of my first mule knife today. I thought to myself, man that photo would be nice if the mule was black coated. Anyone up for a coated mule? Doesn't have to be black, I wouldn't mind seeing a tan or olive drab either. What do you think?
And YES I realize you can do it yourself. But I don't want to. :)
color coated Mule????
I agree with Jabba. I would be very happy with a Satin 3V mule. And I agree that a coated tool steel would be a much better use for the coating. If the re-heat treating of the MT12 goes well, I would be inclined to pick up 2 of them, especially if they are coated. I recently traded my MT12 at SFO for 2 MT11.
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There's always the option of just sending your Mule out to one of the many places that do Gun-Kote, Cerakote, etc finishes. That way you get the steel you want and the color you want.
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CTS-20CP or Elmax in black or tan sounds good!sal wrote:What about the steel? A particular steel? Any steel?
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Great point. That way it would look bad-***, (IMHO, black blades always do) and still give us the opportunity to have a 'protected' tool or HC steel to try out.jabba359 wrote:If it's going to be coated, I'd vote for some sort of tool steel that rusts easily, otherwise the coating would just be cosmetic and wouldn't particularly fit in with the spirit of the Mule program.
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No coatings for me please.
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I'm surprised there isn't more interest in a coated mule. I've seen a few other successful coated blanks that come in multiple colors. Izula? Looks like I need to find a good place to send my next mule to be coated. Can I suggest a new size knife blank? Or is this the wrong crowd? Either way Spyderco will get my biz on mules, I'm hooked.
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I hear ya. However I will say I dig the look of the black coated para 2 which is S30v. Which I believe is stainless. I also own the black coated moran in VG-10, also stainless. I'll take my place in the minority with the folks that love coated blades.DeathBySnooSnoo wrote:Nothing that I would be interested in unless it were specifically because the steel was especially prone to rusting. And then the odds are it probably wouldn't be used as a knife steel...at least not by Spyderco.
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To me, the whole concept of the mule team is to try new steels at the lowest possible price in a repeatable, comparable vehicle. Part of the whole concept is finding out just how stainless, or not the steels are just as they are.
It's not really about getting cheaper custom knives as it was initially designed. Whether it evolves into that is entirely Sal's business. I wouldn't complain, or expect anybody to care if I did but coated mules aren't really in the spirit of the program .
As I said it's up to Sal what he does with his program. He came up with it and owns it.
I'm not big on coatings anyway. Rust has never been a problem for me. I also enjoy the look of different steels and I learn them faster when not coated.
It's not really about getting cheaper custom knives as it was initially designed. Whether it evolves into that is entirely Sal's business. I wouldn't complain, or expect anybody to care if I did but coated mules aren't really in the spirit of the program .
As I said it's up to Sal what he does with his program. He came up with it and owns it.
I'm not big on coatings anyway. Rust has never been a problem for me. I also enjoy the look of different steels and I learn them faster when not coated.
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In this case, it's not that I don't like coated blades (which I don't really) but because like others have said, that really isn't the point of the Mule project.jtoler_9 wrote:I hear ya. However I will say I dig the look of the black coated para 2 which is S30v. Which I believe is stainless. I also own the black coated moran in VG-10, also stainless. I'll take my place in the minority with the folks that love coated blades.
If there is enough demand for a coated fb then yeah for sure Spyderco should do one to satisfy the demand, but I think that for the Mule project, unless the steel requires a coating to help with corrosion then I don't think that it is something I would be interested in.
I think too that the cost would be prohibitive. The Mules are priced far far lower than they would be as a production knife I am sure. So to do a run that is outside of the normal Mule project, and then coat it, the cost might make a lot of people stay away.
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