{"product_id":"mule-team™-z-12ultra-bq™","title":"Mule Team™ Z-12Ultra BQ™","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpyderco’s remarkable Mule Team™ project is truly unique in the knife industry. An extension of our meticulous in-house testing processes, it provides steel-obsessed knife enthusiasts a consistent fixed-blade platform for their own comparative testing of different blade steels. For aspiring knifemakers, it also offers a source of convenient “kit” blades for the attachment of aftermarket or custom handle scales. This remarkable Mule Team blade highlights Z-12Ultra BQ™, a unique cutlery steel manufactured by Zapp Tooling Alloys, Inc. Z-12Ultra BQ is a “blade-quality” expression of Zapp’s Z-12Ultra PM™, an ultra-wear-resistant steel developed specifically for high-volume industrial tooling applications. That steel’s proprietary alloy composition provides significantly enhanced wear resistance, toughness, and compressive strength compared to common high-wear tool steels. Z-12Ultra BQ optimizes that steel’s properties specifically for use in knife blades and is a proud member of Zapp’s elite BQ family of cutlery steels. The MT45 Mule Team is also unique in that it is available in both PlainEdge™ and fully serrated SpyderEdge™ configurations, further expanding the scope of the steel-testing adventure. Available in limited quantities and sold consumer direct only, Mule Team blades do not include handle scales or a sheath.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spyderco","offers":[{"title":"PlainEdge","offer_id":44845859930156,"sku":"MT45P","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"SpyderEdge","offer_id":44845859962924,"sku":"MT45S","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/7189\/6620\/files\/MT45P.jpg?v=1760111110","url":"https:\/\/spyderco.mom\/products\/mule-team%e2%84%a2-z-12ultra-bq%e2%84%a2","provider":"Spyderco","version":"1.0","type":"link"}