[re-release] MT12P featuring Cru-Wear Release Date

[dapagco]

Product is Live!

MT12P – Mule Team Fixed Blade
Featuring: Cru-Wear Steel

Release Date: MT12P will be available for sale on Friday, January 20, 2012 at 9:00AM MT

All sales will be handled by the Spyderco Factory Outlet store online at www.spyderco.com.

Maximum Purchase Allowed: 2. -- This limit has been lifted!

Cost: $59.95

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:
Spyderco’s twelfth Mule Team Project installment features American-made steel called Cru-Wear. Upstate New York’s Crucible Steel manufacturers Cru-Wear which is very similar to Vascowear, a steel used by Gerber Legendary Blades in many of their past production knives.

Cru-Wear is a high-performance “V” tool steel that is difficult to process making it challenging for knife manufacturer to work with. It follows the same high-alloy, metallurgical tool-steel recipe used to produce D2, but with greater levels of vanadium, tungsten and molybdenum. It is air-hardened and worked in a cold state. Cru-Wear exhibits exceptional toughness, impact resistance and hardness for exceptional edge retention and is the first tool steel offering in Spyderco’s Mule Team Series.

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.
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[razorsharp]

sure there are gonna be some very excited posts here

[PanChango]

Release Date: MT12P will be available for sale on Friday, January 20, 2011 at 9:00AM MT

Should that be 2012 or was that from the original release date?

[jabba359]

Is there any marking on the knives to indicate they are the fixed versions? While I plan on getting mine from the SFO, future eBay shoppers may want to have a way to tell if they are getting a fixed version instead of one somebody may not have sent back.

[razorsharp]

Should that be 2012 or was that from the original release date?

if theyre like me, they still feel like its 2011

[DeathBySnooSnoo]

Hmm...I want one. But **** that expensive shipping.

[JNewell]

Should that be 2012 or was that from the original release date?

Sharp eyes (no pun intended) :D

[jackthedog]

Looking forward to this one. Great news.

[angusW]

I'm going to get two of these.

Hmm...I want one. But **** that expensive shipping.

I don't remember how much it is but those shipping prices don't include Canada.

[gaj999]

Is there any marking on the knives to indicate they are the fixed versions? While I plan on getting mine from the SFO, future eBay shoppers may want to have a way to tell if they are getting a fixed version instead of one somebody may not have sent back.

You flex them. If they bend, they're the early release. If they snap, they're the later release. :p

Gordon

[jtoler_9]

Count me in. Any chance I can force a patina on this one? Anyone out there have any experience with Cru-ware?

[dsmegst]

It's better the second time around? :) I got my fingers crossed for this one.

[Rwb1500]

Consider my calender marked. Excited for my first Mule Team. :D

[The Mastiff]

Count me in. Any chance I can force a patina on this one? Anyone out there have any experience with Cru-ware?

I don't know how pretty it'll get but it should take one. Not as stainy as super blue but not as stainless as D2. It's near 3V if you've tried that. A2 is fairly close too.

It's easy to keep rust free if that's on the agenda too. Mostly it's very tough and wear resistant though. Both more than D2.

[dapagco]

Sorry about the typo, but yes, the release date is Jan 20, 2012.

I believe there will be a small marking on the blade that will show which knives have been recalled and re-released.

[phillipsted]

Looking forward to it - thanks, Dapagco!

TedP

[Zerimas]

I'm going to get two of these.



I don't remember how much it is but those shipping prices don't include Canada.

Really? Have you ordered anything direct from Spyderco? If this is the case, I may get myself one of these or a USA Baliyo.

[KardinalSyn]

To buy or not. I am on not sure.

[Rockcrawler]

To buy or not. I am on not sure.

BUY, ima get two!

[angusW]

Really? Have you ordered anything direct from Spyderco? If this is the case, I may get myself one of these or a USA Baliyo.

I just looked at the receipt for the Damascus Mule and the shipping was $15. The last Mule I ordered was the M390 but the box is in the garage and well, I'm just too lazy to go look :D I'm fairly certain the shipping on it was $15 as well.