A book on machetes...

[KGatLC]

Anybody know of one?

 

[tltt]

Daniel Edward (D E) Henry - "Collins Machetes and Bowies 1845 - 1965". Mainly on Collins and Co, who were America's premier maker, but it crosses into other types of machete lore and knowledge quite well.

 

[Hal]

My wife has some sort of obsession with machetes.
She buys one something like every third trip to Harbor Freight.
I find the damned things all over the house.

I can't complain though - she puts up with all my crap (guns, knives, small hand tools, etc) that occupy nearly every horizontal surface in the house.

Beats the hell out of her buying a bunch of shoes though....

 

[Henry Beige]

What’s your purpose in asking? Do you want to make a gift, or do you want to learn about machetes yourself. If the former, no clue. If the latter, prowl Youtube. The videos by Joe Flowers are especially instructive, especially on machete use, but they don’t tell you everything. I have learned a lot by watching reviews, etc by a lot of different people. The Machete Specialists’ web site has a lot of basic info on types of machetes, but it doesn’t tell you everything either. Prowlthe forums; you can learn a lot that way. Ask some questions. Spend some time on the Baryonyx website.

 

[Henry Beige]

My wife has some sort of obsession with a machete.
She buys on something like every third trip to Harbor Freight.
I find the damned things all over the house.

I can't complain though - she puts up with all my crap (guns, knives, small hand tools, etc) that occupy nearly every horizontal surface in the house.

Beats the hell out of her buying a bunch of shoes though....

Don’t go to sleep if she’s mad at you.

 

[willc]

My wife has some sort of obsession with machetes.
She buys one something like every third trip to Harbor Freight.
I find the damned things all over the house.

I can't complain though - she puts up with all my crap (guns, knives, small hand tools, etc) that occupy nearly every horizontal surface in the house.

Beats the hell out of her buying a bunch of shoes though....

You should give her one of those 5 pack of Tramontias for Christmas.
Those are way better than anything from HF.

They ran like 35 bucks last time I looked into them.

 

[lieferung]

It's kind of funny, if you Google "books on machetes" you will find books about machetes but not in the way you're looking for. And if you image search you will get lots of replicas of the machete from the movie Book fo Eli

 

[KGatLC]

Daniel Edward (D E) Henry - "Collins Machetes and Bowies 1845 - 1965". Mainly on Collins and Co, who were America's premier maker, but it crosses into other types of machete lore and knowledge quite well.

Thank you.

 

[KGatLC]

What’s your purpose in asking? Do you want to make a gift, or do you want to learn about machetes yourself. If the former, no clue. If the latter, prowl Youtube. The videos by Joe Flowers are especially instructive, especially on machete use, but they don’t tell you everything. I have learned a lot by watching reviews, etc by a lot of different people. The Machete Specialists’ web site has a lot of basic info on types of machetes, but it doesn’t tell you everything either. Prowlthe forums; you can learn a lot that way. Ask some questions. Spend some time on the Baryonyx website.

I like books and I like machetes, so I figured I'd like a book about machetes. Not had much luck finding any. All I've been able to turn up is the one tltt mentioned. You'd think there'd be more.
But, yeah, I've done all the stuff you mentioned. Except for asking questions.
Thanks for your reply.