Spyderco Mule Team™ 12 Cruwear* Archived Products

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 Manufacturers 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.