Elk Ridge - Outdoors - Spear – Spire, Black Fine Edge Spear Point Blade with Black Injection Molded Nylon Fiber Handle with Universal Thread for Broom Stick, Nylon Sheath– Spire, ER-SP002BK

Very cool spearhead. Be aware there is a small slotted screw that is intended to keep the blade from loosening, and the screw needs to be loosened with a small flathead screwdriver before you unscrew the blade from the handle. Also be aware that not all broom handle threads are the same. I tried using a wood broom handle with metal threads for the spear shaft, but unfortunately those metal threads were too wide. I brought the detached handle to the hardware store, and found another wooden broom handle with wooden threats, and that was a great match. It cost me $13. The blade is secure on the wooden broom handle now, and the blade is not too heavy or large, so it can be a good one-handed spear that’s not too blade heavy, if you find a handle that’s sufficiently sturdy. I recommend wood instead of aluminum or plastic. The graph paper in the images is 1” per square, for scale. The blade has one sharp edge and one false edge. The tip is sharp. I tested the spear with water jugs, and the spear works as intended. I can’t speak for throwability, as I have not tried, nor intend to throw this spear. Overall, I’d say was a good purchase.

Very good product Great weight to it Nicely built

Outstanding quality -- and set up so that you can either use it as is, or remove the cap and mount it on a broomstick or whatnot. Very happy.

As other reviewers have mentioned the screw threading is quirky. The blade screwed on to plastic threaded mop handle with no problem. Likewise, it screwed on to a wooden threaded mop handle without complication. Meanwhile, I have tried several metal threaded mop handles with seemingly identical threading in terms of pitch and number of the threads and haven't found one yet that will screw on more than a quarter of the way. Because I'm stubborn I'm going to keep experimenting. My operating assumption is that the metal threads are either slightly too thick or not rounded off enough. And, by the way, be careful, this thing is extremely sharp right out of the box! As a follow-up to my original review I can tell you that if you are willing to spend a bit of time with a round file chamfering and rounding the edges of the metal threads on the mop handle ... then you can screw the blade all the way on. Yay!

This looks double edge but it isn’t, good thing because it would be illegal. With that said though the blade is durable and sharp. I like that it cab be screwed on to a mop handle or a metal extendable handle.

This is cool! I added a short handle and am glad I got it!

Both good and bad, we bought two of these. One came In with the box pushed in but still intact and we had to look around a bit to figure out how to unscrew the underneath part to be able to use a mop with this. Of the two one had the inside very tight looks like a piece of metal sticking out so it was difficult to pull out and put back the underside of these. The sharpness is no joke though but just one side only on both with a pointed tip. Strongly recommend to buy more then one in case one of theses comes damaged like mine did, certainly wish i could get a refund for one of these as we can’t use one of these as intended. Everything else is ok.

I had bought the other version of a similar type of spear from Smith & Wesson, quite some time ago. However, I had permanently fastened it to a painter's pole handle which makes go from short sword length to thus extend it to spear length. So having a spare broom handle I wanted to have another type of knife to do a similar thing with, I ordered this item from Elk Ridge. For those that entered a review about the handle "not unscrewing or coming off", there's a tiny screw to hold it in place. Whether or not, this screw is supposed to be kept or not, I don't know but overall the spear/knife does as advertised. After having tested it a bit, I would for use as a knife just keep that screw handy to add to the structural integrity of the blade staying put on the handle mount. I also found that it is well balanced for throwing whether as a whole knife or just the blade head separate from the handle itself. And even the handle by itself, makes for a good force multiplier/palm stick (yawara/shubo/kubaton). So overall a very versatile tool and worthwhile purchase.