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Ok. Thank you for you input. For the price difference I can get the duke and a custom sheath. Lol. But the damn Spartans look so bad ass.
Ok. Thank you for you input. For the price difference I can get the duke and a custom sheath. Lol. But the damn Spartans look so bad ass.
Thanks for the great pics and reviews. I have had a couple of Spartan blades fixed blade knives in the past as I was trying things out and ended up not keeping them. I am starting to look at them again. The phrike looks like a great EDC and the hunter looks great for just about everything that I would need a knife for.
Thanks again, take care.
Pizza and difensa.
I like the tan and black handle. The black and black is bad ass, but even in the camp sight it scares the sheeple. Lol. Screw the sheeple and there ignorant mentality. Last I checked a semi auto Woodstock does the same thing as an AR. Same goes for knives. When I pull my Enyo out people look at me as if I pulled out a machete.
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One thing I will say about the coating is that it is damn tough. Opened a can with the Difensa. The metal comes off on the coating rather than the other way areound.
LOL, it's not a judgement on my part. Other than when I am intentionally being discrete to avoid unwanted attention, I really couldn't care less what anyone else thinks personally of my color choices. We all have the right to choose what appeals to us as individuals. Here the sheeple often seem just as afraid of a small uncoated knife with an orange handle as a larger all black knife. Sheeple are sheeple... I have just been doing R&D, T&E, and field research of knives for a lot of years, starting long before the internet and internet reviews, and most of them in the last decade have been tools for more "tactical" applications, and a lot of intense tests. I am just personally burned out on black coatings and all black knives. They are the easiest to photograph to be honest, but I am just burned out on looking at the all black knives. I have tested so many that at this point aesthetically they all start blending together, and at at times creates a sort of "seen-one-seen-them-all" sort of feeling in my mind that have to defeat to get on with the testing...
I would imagine. Hadn't thought of that. I also have gotten away from coated blades, they just cut better. Especially the cheap coating that esee and Becker use. Also likely knives to look used and not polished. To each his own.
Spartan makes great knives, own the Difensa, and 2 of the Harsey 2's which have been discontinued! Would own more if they (Spartan) would put the Difensa handles on their other offering's-Great knives
I agree, and I regret not getting a Mod-II, but I'll have to try for one second hand later. The Hunter has the same handle, just sayin' and I think there may even be a smaller one in the works for later.
Whenever that Tactical Trout does eventually come out, I hope that they release it in an uncoated blade. I just really like the look of the trouts as Bill makes them, and it would be nice to have a production option for the Trout.
I'm curious as to why the hunter cost more than the difensia and it has a shorter blade than the difensia.
Thanks that's good to know.Bevels are hand ground by Bill Harsey