enzo knife?

[all hood allen]

has anyone used an enzo trapper or folders?
they look nice, but i havent held one in hand. so anyone with experience tell me your opinion.


thanks
allen

 

[Double Action]

has anyone used an enzo trapper or folders?
they look nice, but i havent held one in hand. so anyone with experience tell me your opinion.


thanks
allen

Both of these are Enzo blades. The full tang is the Trapper, and the other is the Nordic. I really like these blades. I used natural canvas micarta for the scales on the Trapper. It has been a great knife. Perfect size for bushcraft and edc. My only beef with it is that the tip is a bit thick for detail work, but I use the crap out of it (both of them, actually.) If you are handy at all, it is a real bargain to buy just the blade and then put some scales on it, yourself.

 

[all hood allen]

If you are handy at all, it is a real bargain to buy just the blade and then put some scales on it, yourself.

that was my thought. its less than $60 for the whole kit.
which steel do you have D2 or 01 carbon?


thanks for the input.
allen.

 

[Double Action]

I have 01, as I find D2 a bit troubling to sharpen in the field. If you get the kit, you might think about getting some vulcanized fiber (or equivalent) to put under the scales. I have heard that Enzo's scales are a bit thin for some folks. I bought just the bare blades, and used materials I had on hand for the scales.

 

[all hood allen]

I have 01, as I find D2 a bit troubling to sharpen in the field. If you get the kit, you might think about getting some vulcanized fiber (or equivalent) to put under the scales. I have heard that Enzo's scales are a bit thin for some folks. I bought just the bare blades, and used materials I had on hand for the scales.

sweet bro thats the same steel im looking at. 01 is a great performer.

bensbackwoods.com has the handles shaped already, so i might just do that.
maybe curly birch.


can you post pics of you firished knife? i would love to see how you did it.

 

[R.S.R]

I have Enzo Folder D2 scandi grind.
An excellent knife all round,perfect for the minor jobs in the field.

 

[Double Action]

Even if you get the handles that Ben's sells, I would test fit them to see if you will have enough thickness. If not, let me know, and I'll mail you enough fiber spacer to put under them.

 

[all hood allen]

Even if you get the handles that Ben's sells, I would test fit them to see if you will have enough thickness. If not, let me know, and I'll mail you enough fiber spacer to put under them.

i might call ben and find out, that guy is great to deal with. i really hope i wont have to. but either way i think its going to be a sweet blade.

thanks man really appriceate the advice.

 

[StretchNM]

I made a few EnZo's, most of them from Ben's Backwoods. Ny first two were a kits. I gave one away and kept a green Micarta. Since then, I order only the blades, and scale them myself. What I like to do is extend the scales out further toward the ricasso, and I add a lanyard tube, which is very difficult to do (properly) in a kit knife if the scales are already pre-formed. I managed to do it on the green micarta, but it took a special home-made jig and lots of time so there was no slop around the tube.

Here's the green micarta knife. It's an EDC.

This is a curly birch kit. My very first EnZo.

 

[StretchNM]

The Trappers are very nice. I like O-1 steel. First, because it can be sharpened much easier than D2 and, second, because I can add a patina to the blade with vinegar and cold blue.

Here are a couple of EnZo Elver knives. They are very nice little blades, even though they are D2 steel. Standard v-grind is all that was available until recently, when they introduced a D2 Elver with a scandi ground-to-zero blade. Thompson's has them.

I have a Word document I made going through step-by-step the process of building an EnZo. It deals with making your own scales, from start ot finish, but even still it would be helpful and help a first-timer avoid some of the mistakes I've learned. If it interests anyone, let me know and I can email it.

 

[kidcoyote]

i like the curly birch.

 

[Jason B.]

Any feedback on the folder? CF, D2, and a scandi grind sounds like a perfect woods folder to me.

 

[tanrichguy]

I have had an Enzo folder in S30V, FFG, carbon fibre scales for about 6 months now. I carry it as a gentlemans folder. The build quality is excellent and it is the sharpest knife I've ever seen straight out the box. I wouldn't hesitate to order one you won't be disappointed.

 

[StretchNM]

After all that posting, I missed the details of the OP's original post: EnZo folders!!!

Sorry about that. I was never accused of being smart.