I have the original knife designs in this HIC ceramic from rahven knives switzerland, 2 years later of almost daily use and just stropped on diamond paper just twice, their edge is like day one. Amazing material, no microchipping as of yet, but I only used them for slicing so there's that.

Ive got mine on the way. I appreciate the upload. It helps tide me over while I impatiently wait. Im looking around to see how hopelessly impossible its going to be to ever resharpen it.

Thank you for the show and tell! I'm on the waiting list. I've been hearing many reports of these knives arriving pretty dull. So it's been about 2 weeks for you now, and we're ready for an update, as to your scale choice. Did you end up going with yellow, or?

I missed out on this Mule. The Rahven Kitchen knives are made from the same material.

I would love to get a San Mai blade with the HIC as the core and encased in a tough, highly stainless steel. While HIC is much tougher than other ceramics, it is still more brittle than most steels, hence it would benefit from increased composite toughness. Meanwhile (until such a blade comes out), I might try this on the Whale M I ordered from Rahven: take some S glass fiberglass cloth and high strength lamination epoxy, and layer the knife with a couple to few layers of stepped overlapping S glass cloth, just shy of the honed knife edge, then sand. But, from what I've read, this material sounds like it is almost inherently non stick, so this might not work as the epoxy might not be able to bond to it. I will probably rough up the material with some course grit diamond first to help the epoxy bond better. If this did work, it would significantly increase the toughness of most of the blade, so that if it drops on a hard surface, it would be far less likely to break. At the same time, the epoxy+S glass fiberglass would micro wear away with use, and I'm not so sure I would want that in connection with food use.

I purchased mine moment sale was live. Spyderco did not ship it until Friday and still waiting for delivery.

If you ever want to let one go let me know

Breathing pretty hard sitting still. You okay?

Got mine today. Doesn’t seem very sharp. Cuts packing paper…barely.