Got the Spartan Blades Enyo today , and it it awesome. It may be priced high , but the quiality is definitely there , and once you feel there blades in hand and see there quiality first hand you understand that these are a different breed of knife.
Having both, the Izula and the Enyo I can tell that they differ a whole lot. The Izula has a thinner grind thus being a better cutter. The Enyo is a tank. Sturdy, unbreakable and it will not rust. It is harder to resharpen tho. The Izula is the better EDC knife for food processing and every day cutting tasks, while the Enyo on the other hand is rather meant for soldiers. You just never need to worry about it. I love both of them for different reasons! P.S.: I also have to praise Spartan Blades for their awesome warranty and customer service. You cannot go wrong with them!
Why is everyone complaining about the price? Spartan makes some of the best knives out there, but that price comes from the great customer service, and you get a lifetime warranty. Stop complaining.
watch out for this guy we will see him on Discovery Channel soon hosting the next popular show. keep up the good work David youve gotten confident and you seem very professional and still a joy to watch. I also appreciate the way you structure the information and plan the way you talk about a subject :)
Yo! The link you placed for spartan blades actually goes to amazon to buy ESEE knives! Just wanted to give you a heads up before all the comment-queens try to tear into you. 8D Representing western North Carolina.
Wow this is an awesome little knife. I love small edc's I just picked up an esee izula and LOVE it. Use it everyday. How would you compare this to the izula? Btw this guy seems great. Very customer orientated. Wouldn't mind buying a knife from him.
Curtis is the real deal... Ex Special Forces... a man you can trust! I would say that the ergonomics of the ENO AND the steel used is far superior to the 440C in the ESSE Izula. However, the ESSE Isula in form is more of a backup bushcraft utility blade... the ENYO is form is a good self defense knife first and a utility knife second. Hope this helps. ~David
UltimateSurvivalTips Makes perfect sense, WOW thanks for taking the time to reply. im going to have to look further into this blade. I LOVE my izula and use it daily but seems to dull out semi quickly. I like the thickness of the blade but this might suit me better. would be nice if they sold scales for it so it wasn't just a skeleton handle. thanks again. love the vids man
nyinfamous2k2 Esee Izula is a good knife, the steel is 1095 carbon (will rust or stain) with a good heat treat. It's a general purpose blade. Note the price difference $45 from newgraham.com while the Enyo is pretty pricey. Btw I live in Australia and an Izula here is going to cost me about $70 for it with shipping (to get in Aus, its over $100) and ESEE have the best warrenty in the business. Not like you need it if you're smart with your blades, but its good to have the reassurance.
nyinfamous2k2 Esee Izula is a good knife, the steel is 1095 carbon (will rust or stain) with a good heat treat. It's a general purpose blade. Note the price difference $45 from newgraham.com while the Enyo is pretty pricey. Btw I live in Australia and an Izula here is going to cost me about $70 for it with shipping (to get in Aus, its over $100) and ESEE have the best warrenty in the business. Not like you need it if you're smart with your blades, but its good to have the reassurance.
Its actually Michigan state university that has the spartan logo. The university of Michigan are the wolverines and though it may not be a big difference to you, people here would get severely pissed at what you just said.
I don’t understand why everybody is complaining about price specifically… the Bradford guardian 3 is a highly praised knife of this size and costs around the same amongst many other knives this size. I’m just confused because it’s not like it’s made with a shitty steel
I have that it's really awesome to have with u camping
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Looks like a good knife. I've got a couple hundred knives and out of those I've got several good ones. I'd like one of yours, but I'm not inclined to purchase a knife that while its considered a survival knife, it doesn't have a handle which would add to the workmanship,cost and value of it. It also has a 2 and a little more inches of working blade. At $150.00, unless this is a handmade blade I think we've gotten a little over the top with knife prices. But that's probably just me. There are plenty of people that can and are willing to pay ridiculous prices for knives just because someone throws out a few numbers to describe the metal it's made of. I would save up and buy two of these if you could show me things it could do under most normal situations that most other 2 &1/2 inch blades couldn't do. I can sharpen a knife and get complaints from folks that their knives are too sharp for what they want. So while I agree this is a good looking little knife and probably pretty tough. It's to over priced for what's being offered.
+Gunny Sharp I think you're right - I like this knife, but at $150 in the Sates (God knows how much in the UK) it's basically... too expensive! Prices like that make you think of it as some treasured heirloom, not a functional survival/emergency back up knife. It's just too fancy. Sexy, yes, Viable? Not really. Will go with an Eskabar, a plain Izula or a CRKT maybe.
For an EDC knife MADE IN THE USA OUT OF S35VN it is not ridiculously priced at all. What are you comparing to? Because the knives it's competing with are CRK's Professional Soldier, Strider's DB, etc... And it's a LOT better priced than those blades. Keep things in perspective - If you compare this to just about any other USA made neck knife in a high quality powder steel it's going to beat it for the money. If you compare it to a Chinese mass-produced neck knife like the CRKT Minimalist then obviously the price is going to seem absurd, but the cost that goes into making the knife with better materials that take more time to machine by people who actually make enough money to live comfortably is going to push the price up. Period.
***** BS. For somebody with the handle "Team Spyderco" you're ignoring the fact that they themselves sold their Mule Team S35VN for $130 bucks and it's quite similar in size and function and doesn't actually have a sheath like the Enyo does. If you just aren't a neck knife type of user then I would agree with you, why buy a knife for $150 that you won't actually use? But if you are somebody that greatly prefers fixed blades and likes this design, the materials, and knowing that it's a USA made product? Then it's a no-brainer. The Enyo is actually very fairly priced for what it is.
I'd rather pay extra to know my knife isn't gonna snap if I try to pry something with it or have the tip break off stabbing like it would with all the Chinese knock offs flooding the market these days. If you have a job where your life could depend on it functioning properly then you might want to consider a quality tool.
You would not want k390 or even M390 for this kind of knife. Sure they have great edge holding, but one of the advantages of a neck knife over a folder, is the strength a reliability. Both of those are two easy to chip, I would not want to open a can, or pry with those. Maybe s90v. s35v is a good steel choice, it has edge retention that is comparable with somewhere in between VG-10 and s30v, yet it is more than strong enough to do most tasks. It is about the best stainless I can think of for this knife. Of course if you were to coat the blade... I would prefer CPM 3v, srs101, or maybe even A2 with a unconventional heat treat like Blackheart Knives does. I think all around CPM 3v with a coating would be the best, but that would add to the price.
It's nowhere near too much money if you ask me. You get what you pay for. If you like high quality powder steels that hold an edge and won't rust out on you and supporting US labor then spending a bit more on a knife that you'll really use and love will pay off big in the long haul. I'll spend 150 on a knife like this over 20 on a CRKT Minimalist made in China with cheap, soft 8Cr13MoV any day of the week.
bendari A lot of people, actually... In fact I'd say anybody on blade forums, knife forums, USN, or any other related forum would care about the difference in materials.
***** Then I guess you don't care that China makes very good knives and very good value as well. Spyderco Domino is $167 on Amazon but the high quality $17 Chinese clone that looks identical to the Spyderco Domino knife. So price wise the difference is $150. There is no way the real domino is worth $150 more than the clone Period. I've collected knives since the 1980's so I know way more about knives then you do. Since you keep abreast of knives then you know China sells millions of these great knives. If the quality was not good then people would not buy them by the millions. So by volume there are more people on the planet buying Chinese knives which makes the tiny amount of people you refer to as unimportant.
bendari That was one seriously stupid little diatribe you went on there. All you've managed to do is write up a wall of playground level insults, silly assumptions that don't hold true, and toss in one example of a quality product made in China that happens to be popular which is yet ANOTHER example of resorting to bandwagon to support your stance. Your posts are laughable and the fact that you think it's your place to call ANYONE an idiot is absurd because you can barely string together a coherent post. You're like a joke that isn't funny. The more insults you throw the sadder it is to watch you even try to make your point.
Just because you don't understand where the price is coming from doesn't mean it's over priced. Given that it's made in the USA with S35VN steel, it's competing with the CRK Professional Soldier, Strider DB, and many other high end American fixed blades that cost MUCH more. In fact, I have yet to find a knife with near the same specs that didn't cost more. I'd say that's a VERY fair price when the competition is asking 200 bucks or more while these guys ask for 150.
That's a pretty cool little knife but my cold steel mini Pendleton VG-1 blade is perfect for less than 50$. I can't justify spending this much on such a small main stream neck knife. You don't have 150$ worth of knife. Idk if I was spending 400+ on a spartan fixed blade it would be on the RMJ TOMAHAWK LOL (obviously not spartan)
Price asked does mean price deserved Amazingly sad that they would ask or expect people to spend that much Sure I understand quality, also I understand how these clowns fall in love with their products and lose site of what's important = value to customer There are many EDC carry neck knifes of excellent quailty for a easy $40- $50 My BK 9 with sheath was only $75 5X the steel And you want $150 for Enyo ? . . phfft No respect for Spartan blades mind set . . . .Greed
Meh, bit too large, blade shape looks too "military" for an EDC which might make the stupid-ass cops in Quebec piss all over my face, and it's over 9000 on the scale of over-priced-ness. But hey, it was made for the military, so I guess all of this really makes it a good knife for what it's designed for. I doubt S35VN is better than S30V though.
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Got the Spartan Blades Enyo today , and it it awesome. It may be priced high , but the quiality is definitely there , and once you feel there blades in hand and see there quiality first hand you understand that these are a different breed of knife.
That gentleman sounds like a real class act! I will definitely be looking into their knives now.
Having both, the Izula and the Enyo I can tell that they differ a whole lot. The Izula has a thinner grind thus being a better cutter. The Enyo is a tank. Sturdy, unbreakable and it will not rust. It is harder to resharpen tho. The Izula is the better EDC knife for food processing and every day cutting tasks, while the Enyo on the other hand is rather meant for soldiers. You just never need to worry about it.
I love both of them for different reasons!
P.S.: I also have to praise Spartan Blades for their awesome warranty and customer service. You cannot go wrong with them!
Why is everyone complaining about the price? Spartan makes some of the best knives out there, but that price comes from the great customer service, and you get a lifetime warranty. Stop complaining.
watch out for this guy we will see him on Discovery Channel soon hosting the next popular show. keep up the good work David youve gotten confident and you seem very professional and still a joy to watch. I also appreciate the way you structure the information and plan the way you talk about a subject :)
Spartan Blades make fabulous "tools" (knives )
Finish is incredible.
Good interview as always Dave! Keep up the great work!
His "small change pocket" is actually a watch pocket.
Where can I purchase one of these Knives I would really love to have one please comment back thank you very much
spartanbladesusa.com/shop-all/
Sounds like an awesome blade.
Nothings better than listening to someone who lives and breathes the products they produce.
Always good sound information from Ultimate survival tips.
Saw in the intro you need some pistol training my friend. You are holding beneath the magazine with your weak hand, which increases the recoil.
This looks like a great little escape knife. Only down side is the price, at $150! 😢😢
Oh well, thanks for posting this video and showing it to us.
Thats one good looking knife
I stopped by and saw these guys. Great blades but I'd have to sell a child to buy one.
Huh A man with honor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yo! The link you placed for spartan blades actually goes to amazon to buy ESEE knives! Just wanted to give you a heads up before all the comment-queens try to tear into you. 8D
Representing western North Carolina.
Love Western North Carolina. Thanks for the "heads up". Link is replaced and fixed.
That’s a bad ass looking knife
Wow this is an awesome little knife. I love small edc's I just picked up an esee izula and LOVE it. Use it everyday. How would you compare this to the izula? Btw this guy seems great. Very customer orientated. Wouldn't mind buying a knife from him.
Curtis is the real deal... Ex Special Forces... a man you can trust! I would say that the ergonomics of the ENO AND the steel used is far superior to the 440C in the ESSE Izula. However, the ESSE Isula in form is more of a backup bushcraft utility blade... the ENYO is form is a good self defense knife first and a utility knife second. Hope this helps. ~David
UltimateSurvivalTips Makes perfect sense, WOW thanks for taking the time to reply. im going to have to look further into this blade. I LOVE my izula and use it daily but seems to dull out semi quickly. I like the thickness of the blade but this might suit me better. would be nice if they sold scales for it so it wasn't just a skeleton handle. thanks again. love the vids man
nyinfamous2k2 Esee Izula is a good knife, the steel is 1095 carbon (will rust or stain) with a good heat treat. It's a general purpose blade. Note the price difference $45 from newgraham.com while the Enyo is pretty pricey. Btw I live in Australia and an Izula here is going to cost me about $70 for it with shipping (to get in Aus, its over $100) and ESEE have the best warrenty in the business. Not like you need it if you're smart with your blades, but its good to have the reassurance.
nyinfamous2k2 Esee Izula is a good knife, the steel is 1095 carbon (will rust or stain) with a good heat treat. It's a general purpose blade. Note the price difference $45 from newgraham.com while the Enyo is pretty pricey. Btw I live in Australia and an Izula here is going to cost me about $70 for it with shipping (to get in Aus, its over $100) and ESEE have the best warrenty in the business. Not like you need it if you're smart with your blades, but its good to have the reassurance.
Its actually Michigan state university that has the spartan logo. The university of Michigan are the wolverines and though it may not be a big difference to you, people here would get severely pissed at what you just said.
Love your channel
I would like to have something Like that for a neck nice please comment back
I don’t understand why everybody is complaining about price specifically… the Bradford guardian 3 is a highly praised knife of this size and costs around the same amongst many other knives this size. I’m just confused because it’s not like it’s made with a shitty steel
Cool knife. Love my CRK S35V!! But M390 kicks it's butt :)
spartan blades.I am from greece!
perfect knife size
Cool knife but i hear the sheath isnt so good people tell me that the sheath will loose retention after 2-3weeks
Damn....=) What an awesome knife...! Thats the kind of knife i want. Take care man.
Indeed...
Sweet knife!!
I was planning on getting one... then I saw the price and I was like 👀
I have that it's really awesome to have with u camping
Looks like a good knife. I've got a couple hundred knives and out of those I've got several good ones. I'd like one of yours, but I'm not inclined to purchase a knife that while its considered a survival knife, it doesn't have a handle which would add to the workmanship,cost and value of it. It also has a 2 and a little more inches of working blade. At $150.00, unless this is a handmade blade I think we've gotten a little over the top with knife prices. But that's probably just me. There are plenty of people that can and are willing to pay ridiculous prices for knives just because someone throws out a few numbers to describe the metal it's made of. I would save up and buy two of these if you could show me things it could do under most normal situations that most other 2 &1/2 inch blades couldn't do. I can sharpen a knife and get complaints from folks that their knives are too sharp for what they want. So while I agree this is a good looking little knife and probably pretty tough. It's to over priced for what's being offered.
+Gunny Sharp I think you're right - I like this knife, but at $150 in the Sates (God knows how much in the UK) it's basically... too expensive! Prices like that make you think of it as some treasured heirloom, not a functional survival/emergency back up knife. It's just too fancy.
Sexy, yes, Viable? Not really. Will go with an Eskabar, a plain Izula or a CRKT maybe.
I’m sorry, but how can a knife be “too sharp”? I though that was the whole point of a knife
Cool little blade but ouch...$150. Another great vid thanks for posting.
$150 !!?!?!!?!! For an edc neck knife, are you kidding me!? Ridiculously priced.
For an EDC knife MADE IN THE USA OUT OF S35VN it is not ridiculously priced at all. What are you comparing to? Because the knives it's competing with are CRK's Professional Soldier, Strider's DB, etc... And it's a LOT better priced than those blades. Keep things in perspective - If you compare this to just about any other USA made neck knife in a high quality powder steel it's going to beat it for the money. If you compare it to a Chinese mass-produced neck knife like the CRKT Minimalist then obviously the price is going to seem absurd, but the cost that goes into making the knife with better materials that take more time to machine by people who actually make enough money to live comfortably is going to push the price up. Period.
***** BS. For somebody with the handle "Team Spyderco" you're ignoring the fact that they themselves sold their Mule Team S35VN for $130 bucks and it's quite similar in size and function and doesn't actually have a sheath like the Enyo does. If you just aren't a neck knife type of user then I would agree with you, why buy a knife for $150 that you won't actually use? But if you are somebody that greatly prefers fixed blades and likes this design, the materials, and knowing that it's a USA made product? Then it's a no-brainer. The Enyo is actually very fairly priced for what it is.
***** If you don't care, don't comment.
I'd rather pay extra to know my knife isn't gonna snap if I try to pry something with it or have the tip break off stabbing like it would with all the Chinese knock offs flooding the market these days. If you have a job where your life could depend on it functioning properly then you might want to consider a quality tool.
for a couple of hundred more dollars I'd rather get in EDC MP Shield!
Spartans are Michigan state not university of Michigan
Spartans are greek...
NLJORDI13 hes talking about the mascot for the university
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Good review.
Thanks... Curtis knows his stuff so anytime I am with him I like to pick his brain and get you guys some good info on knives in general...
Sold
i will stick with my BK11 did't need to take out a loan to buy it.
It's cool, but I'd prefer a better steel. M390 or k390.
You would not want k390 or even M390 for this kind of knife. Sure they have great edge holding, but one of the advantages of a neck knife over a folder, is the strength a reliability. Both of those are two easy to chip, I would not want to open a can, or pry with those. Maybe s90v.
s35v is a good steel choice, it has edge retention that is comparable with somewhere in between VG-10 and s30v, yet it is more than strong enough to do most tasks. It is about the best stainless I can think of for this knife.
Of course if you were to coat the blade... I would prefer CPM 3v, srs101, or maybe even A2 with a unconventional heat treat like Blackheart Knives does. I think all around CPM 3v with a coating would be the best, but that would add to the price.
I WANT IT!!!
University of Michigan's mascot is the wolverine, while Michigan STATE University's mascot is the spartan.
in today's world you gotta carry
I love, love this knife. However $150 for EDC is way, way, way too much money . Too bad !
It's nowhere near too much money if you ask me. You get what you pay for. If you like high quality powder steels that hold an edge and won't rust out on you and supporting US labor then spending a bit more on a knife that you'll really use and love will pay off big in the long haul. I'll spend 150 on a knife like this over 20 on a CRKT Minimalist made in China with cheap, soft 8Cr13MoV any day of the week.
***** Who cares? NOBODY!
bendari A lot of people, actually... In fact I'd say anybody on blade forums, knife forums, USN, or any other related forum would care about the difference in materials.
***** Then I guess you don't care that China makes very good knives and very good value as well. Spyderco Domino is $167 on Amazon but the high quality $17 Chinese clone that looks identical to the Spyderco Domino knife. So price wise the difference is $150. There is no way the real domino is worth $150 more than the clone Period. I've collected knives since the 1980's so I know way more about knives then you do. Since you keep abreast of knives then you know China sells millions of these great knives. If the quality was not good then people would not buy them by the millions. So by volume there are more people on the planet buying Chinese knives which makes the tiny amount of people you refer to as unimportant.
bendari That was one seriously stupid little diatribe you went on there. All you've managed to do is write up a wall of playground level insults, silly assumptions that don't hold true, and toss in one example of a quality product made in China that happens to be popular which is yet ANOTHER example of resorting to bandwagon to support your stance. Your posts are laughable and the fact that you think it's your place to call ANYONE an idiot is absurd because you can barely string together a coherent post. You're like a joke that isn't funny. The more insults you throw the sadder it is to watch you even try to make your point.
Awesome
Nice blade, but the price is rediculous
Sorry..."high end" yes! But still WAY over priced!
Just because you don't understand where the price is coming from doesn't mean it's over priced. Given that it's made in the USA with S35VN steel, it's competing with the CRK Professional Soldier, Strider DB, and many other high end American fixed blades that cost MUCH more. In fact, I have yet to find a knife with near the same specs that didn't cost more. I'd say that's a VERY fair price when the competition is asking 200 bucks or more while these guys ask for 150.
The blades are very nice but the price come on !
Looking at one in Aus-8 anyone out there have one in this steel ??
Thats a great knife just too expensive for me
what is that laugh ate 4:20 in the video
the problem with these fixed blade knives is that the sheathes really bulky.
That's a pretty cool little knife but my cold steel mini Pendleton VG-1 blade is perfect for less than 50$. I can't justify spending this much on such a small main stream neck knife. You don't have 150$ worth of knife. Idk if I was spending 400+ on a spartan fixed blade it would be on the RMJ TOMAHAWK LOL (obviously not spartan)
I want that bead.
I don't know why my apostrophes are changed to symbols...
David you not think that thing looks evil it looks so evil too me
Curtis looks like Gaben Newell.
Spartan blades make great knives but are so over priced it's insane.
Love the look of it....but that price is ridiculous! Maybe cut it down by half and I'd be all over it.
I MISS LEATHER SHEATHS!!! Plastic sucks !!
this knife needs a deep choil to be safe enough to stab
Nice knife, but not for $150...
david go home!
Price asked does mean price deserved
Amazingly sad that they would ask or expect people to spend that much
Sure I understand quality, also I understand how these clowns fall in love with their products and lose site of what's important = value to customer
There are many EDC carry neck knifes of excellent quailty for a easy $40- $50
My BK 9 with sheath was only $75 5X the steel
And you want $150 for Enyo ? . . phfft
No respect for Spartan blades mind set . . . .Greed
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Meh, bit too large, blade shape looks too "military" for an EDC which might make the stupid-ass cops in Quebec piss all over my face, and it's over 9000 on the scale of over-priced-ness. But hey, it was made for the military, so I guess all of this really makes it a good knife for what it's designed for. I doubt S35VN is better than S30V though.
Cops
overpriced junk, ive been carrying the same crkt minimalist since it came out years aago
bro I love ur vids but not in a gay way