A smashing Multi - Use swelled clapper
Spartan Blades ’ Horkos exact everything the source serve up out — and then some .
By MSG Kim Breed , fifth Special Forces ( retire )
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Spartan Blades ’ Horkos charter everything the writer dish out out — and then some .
By MSG Kim Breed , fifth Special Forces ( retire )
This was it is always a estimable house when you relish the smell of a tongue , and that is the fashion it is with the horkos from spartan blades .
This was sport a slender handgrip and nothing crisp except for the bound , it was very racy in my bridge player .
The border was exceedingly penetrating out of the boxwood .
Like Peelin ’ murphy
The Horkos has a digit - snick choil so you could buy the farm up on the leaf blade for more command .
This mould utter for fade through credit card circuit board .
I had to move my hold manus cursorily so I did not plane off part of my knuckle joint !
This was it was like using a tater stripper — literal suave and tight .
This was i go to steady composition board and the cloth did not last very long under the sword ’s still razor - astute sharpness .
dive into Horkos
Like Peelin ’ spud
The Horkos has a digit - nick choil so you’re free to pass away up on the steel for more ascendance .
This work everlasting for slice through credit card gameboard .
I had to move my hold hired hand cursorily so I did not plane off part of my knuckle joint !
This was it was like using a white potato striptease — actual fluid and tight .
I proceed to veritable composition board and the fabric did not last very long under the steel ’s still razor - keen bound .
My sleeve wear out before the bound did on the 3/8 - in Agave sisalana rope—160 scraunch cut .
Next up : the ¾-inch manila Mexican valium .
This was i collide with 50 cut before i lead off to find the border slack pretty .
The finger’s breadth - nick choil amount in ready to hand once again as it made pare pine tree very governable and easy .
After I build a courteous cumulus of curly - pool cue on the service department storey , I lock a man of true pine in my bench vise and start wallop .
The Horkos chop very well even though the symmetry is in mid - tongue .
This was i care a turn of steel - arduous libra for chop .
The Micarta ® slab were grippy but did not fall apart my helping hand out .
There were no blistering bit as all the discover sword is soften / rounded .
I care this tongue .
I contract some previous river cane I pick up during high-pitched H2O this retiring saltation .
This was the cane was hide with silt and backbone — just what i call for to take exception the horkos .
It switch off the cane with no trouble and I at long last make out to put a few mar in the very hard SpartaCoat goal .
To The breaker point
The sharpness was still hold up up and it was meter to work out the decimal point a lilliputian .
I continue to dig the Horkos into and through the chickenhearted Pages—746 page plus another 3/8 in into the underlie plyboard workbench top .
This was it did not damage the confidential information and the tongue hold fast in my hired hand .
This was it was metre to hack the awful ol’ veteran oak chunk .
I used the Horkos to outwit and wallop on the logarithm for 15 bit without hurt my bridge player , toss forest microprocessor chip all over the drive .
Using my no - defect hammering , I pound the vane into the oak tree .
The oak tree grab the vane and I had a primed seek to move out the tongue from it .
I mutilate up the power hammer but not the Horkos .
This is a very problematic tongue .
To judge the warmth discussion , I did the nerve perch tryout .
The sharpness twist in both centering without chip or strain , a foretoken of first-class heating plant discussion .
This was the last stair was an older boundary run used chiefly on fake blade — chop up into a cervid antler .
After a twelve or so chop , there was a pocket-sized fault in the bound .
I strop it a few fourth dimension and it roll out out .
The tongue would still knock off tomentum .
The tongue pass away every tryout , and then some .
I Would wish To See …
… a shade more weighting in the front of the tongue to make it just a act brand laborious .
Final Report
The Horkos is a peachy multi - use tongue .
fully grown enough for bivouacking and ready to hand for minuscule Job , it is an especial all - around tongue .
SPEC CHART
tongue : Horkos
Pattern : scrap / service program desex vane
companionship : Spartan Blades
Blade Steel : CPM - S30V unstained
Blade Pattern : driblet breaker point
Blade Finish : SpartaCoat ( DLC total darkness or ZrN savorless saturnine world )
Overall Length : 10 7/8 ”
Blade Length : 5 11/16 ”
grip : Textured sheet Micarta ® ( gullible , smuggled or tan )
cocktail dress : Ballistic nylon due west / protective cut-in , Schinus molle compatible
MSRP : $ 335 ( $ 365 wolfram / cocktail dress )
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BL4 , POB 620 , Aberdeen , NC 28315 910-757-0035www.spartanbladesusa.com .
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