Good evening/morning, I just received this knife about a week ago, and came across Spartan Blades by accident. I had never heard of them until a couple of weeks ago(I guess that's what I get for shopping too much on Amazon). As soon as I saw this particular knife, I knew right away it was the perfect self defense knife for me. Everything about just screamed "buy me now fool", and so there followed a big chunk of my paycheck. The only possible con I've came across, is the retention of the kydex sheath. It's great for fast deployment, however, it's loose to the point where I would not feel at ease carrying it upside down. Unfortunately, mine came with a few scratches on the left side of the blade, however, since the black on black version with the kydex sheath is difficult to find, and the fact that I'm not much of a knife polisher, and I knew I would get some wear on it while working with it, I never gave a thought to returning it. Please feel free to give me any kind of feedback, positive, or otherwise. I've already been told:
An ESEE 6 does everything the ares does for half the price and its half as pretentious as well.
$330+tax for a slab of S35VN and G10 with a kydex sheath is kinda silly I guess.

Anyway, I hope I am able to post more than just a single picture, and if there are any other Spartan Blades fans lurking about, I'd love to hear from you. Have an awesome night/morning