Hey, everyone!
Most of you are familiar with the terms "Knife Knuts" and "Steel Junkies." We're curious, what nickname would you suggest for those who are passionate about the Mule Teams? Keeping in mind we like to steer clear of names that vilify our passion, or anything that you wouldn't say to your children or mother.
What say you?
We're looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
Kristi
There is nothing more important than this one day.
Michael 48 Spydies, 44 different models, 43 different steels . Grail knife, still to be acquired: original Tuff by Ed SchemppFeel free to help me find one at a reasonable price...
Drivers. Mule teams need drivers. Someone holding the reigns and keeping the team moving forward.
Spyderco: Tenacious G10, Waterway, Para 3 Spy27, Pacific Salt H1, Catcherman, In the Mule Team Stable(Z-Max, Z-Wear, S45VN, Magnacut, SRS13/SUS405, M398, Aeb-l, 15v)
Drivers. Mule teams need drivers. Someone holding the reigns and keeping the team moving forward.
That’s a good one! Drivers were known as “Muleskinners,” or “skinners,” too.
Mule Skinner is a great name. Comes with a built in theme song, Mule Skinner Blues, Jimmie Rodgers, Bill Monroe, even Dolly Parton has done a version. Blue Yodel #8 stands out.
Spyderco: Tenacious G10, Waterway, Para 3 Spy27, Pacific Salt H1, Catcherman, In the Mule Team Stable(Z-Max, Z-Wear, S45VN, Magnacut, SRS13/SUS405, M398, Aeb-l, 15v)
Obviously Kristi and Sal are the mule parents, right? So that makes them a horse and a donkey. All of us are prospectors working on our own thing, staking our claims and looking for our own kind of gold (we are an a never ending quest for the perfect mule metal). Maybe we’re a gang of Don Quixotes tilting at piles of cardboard boxes.
I like the mule team driver theme. A Muleteer was another term used long ago for someone who drove teams of mules. Teamster was also used... But I think someone may have a claim on that name already, lol.
I was also thinking maybe some sort of play on MTR. An MTR, or Mill Test Report, is a document that shows what a steel is made of, as well as the performance of the steel. Kind of what we're doing as testers of the Mule Team knives. MTR is also a nice acronym for Mule Team... Just gotta figure out a word that starts with "R" that would represent us testers.
In France we have the word "pogonotome" for the one who pratice "pogonotomie".
Pogonotomia is the art of shaving, from the Greek words πώγων pogon "beard" and τέμνω témno, to cut.
I'm not a linguist and also not a native English speaker so I don't know if it's correct or sound good in English but for me a mulotome would be someone praticing the art of testing/using mule team blade and mulotomia/mulotomy, the art of testing/using MT.
But it probably sounds a bit pedantic for my way of mule team blades tests and uses, I'm more a pogotonome myself anyway, using a bunch of straight razors with different grinds and geometries.
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