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Chopper compilation thread!
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Dang! And I thought the chopper I posted was heavy at 2.5! How thick is that?
After a quick measurement, it is 4.88lbs to be exact, the thickest part is 0.32" with a distant taper tang .
Czechmate, that thing is merely a conversation piece.
Unless you are buff as Arnie, Sly or Dwayne Johnson, it is not practical to chop anything with it.
I tried to split some logs with it once, the weight of the blade do all the working. It feel more like a Splitting maul than a bowie.
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Yeah--just think. Picking the thing up 20 times and you'll have lifted almost 100 lbs!
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Hmm, i posted a pic of the Mukti and did get a response. Fantastic knife isnt it?
How do yu like the Two Handed Golok? Ive thought about ordering one for awhile now.
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After a quick measurement, it is 4.88lbs to be exact, the thickest part is 0.32" with a distant taper tang .
Czechmate, that thing is merely a conversation piece.
Unless you are buff as Arnie, Sly or Dwayne Johnson, it is not practical to chop anything with it.
I tried to split some logs with it once, the weight of the blade do all the working. It feel more like a Splitting maul than a bowie.
Totally disagree about it being only a conversation piece, ive used mine quite a bit and love it. Mine is standard length though, did you have KHHI make it a bit bigger or something?
The 2 handed golok by Chris at Scorpion Swords and Knives is a good chopper to get. It is a cleaver on Steroids, i even used it to hack up some cow femur for soup stock.
i highly recommend it. Chris is a nice guy to work with, and is always open for suggestions for modification. Mine's blade length is 18".
I think it kinda like resemble the Zombie tool Mack Daddy Dadao.
My Mukti blade is also 18" long. I didnt expect it was over 0.32" thick, so the weight is an issue.
i highly recommend it. Chris is a nice guy to work with, and is always open for suggestions for modification. Mine's blade length is 18".
I think it kinda like resemble the Zombie tool Mack Daddy Dadao.
My Mukti blade is also 18" long. I didnt expect it was over 0.32" thick, so the weight is an issue.
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Mmmmm...Collins.... :drool:
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old school style
My father, RIP, was so proud of this thing. I love it too of course. He was not an axe kind of guy at all. If he couldn't take it with this thing, the chain saw came out. He bought this and the other one (which is a little longer and not marked Collins now that I look at it) at an Army Navy store back in probably 1967, '68. Been used hard. I don't wanna even speculate how many nails, pebbles, fence wires, fencing staples, etc it has struck incidentally during its life but it is as good as the day he bought he. He never even bothered to sharpen it. I did it for him once I got handy with a file but I'll bet this thing went the first 4 or 5 years of its working life with the factory edge...and it cut through everything it came up against.
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Cool story, dude--thanks for sharing it! Does it say the location of manufacture on it? The real old ones were made in the US and the later ones were Colombian. Both are of great quality but the USA ones are particularly nice.
Well my father was stongly under the impression it was made in Guatemala. Looking at it, I don't see the mark. He may have been told that by the salesman or whatever. I will look at it again. As a kid, I envied the thing so much. I would have sworn that this one (or the other one which has no marking at all but is essentially identical in every aspect, even to the way it is tapered through its length) said Guatemala on it. But as we can all see, it does not. I will look at it again. The other one has been painted black and has two coats of gray primer and two coats of black Rustoleum on it. There may have been a sticker or something but my memory of them when new is fuzzy due to the length of time and...well...college in the 1970's
PS. It is not nearly as rusty as it appears in this photo...in fact I would not describe it as "rusty" at all. There is just the very lightest dusting of reddishness actually on it. It has been well cared for. The courseness of the steel that you see in the close-up is just how it is. I don't think that is pitting. It was just never polished.
PS. It is not nearly as rusty as it appears in this photo...in fact I would not describe it as "rusty" at all. There is just the very lightest dusting of reddishness actually on it. It has been well cared for. The courseness of the steel that you see in the close-up is just how it is. I don't think that is pitting. It was just never polished.
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any opinions of the SVORD GOLOK
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Well my father was stongly under the impression it was made in Guatemala. Looking at it, I don't see the mark. He may have been told that by the salesman or whatever. I will look at it again. As a kid, I envied the thing so much. I would have sworn that this one (or the other one which has no marking at all but is essentially identical in every aspect, even to the way it is tapered through its length) said Guatemala on it. But as we can all see, it does not. I will look at it again. The other one has been painted black and has two coats of gray primer and two coats of black Rustoleum on it. There may have been a sticker or something but my memory of them when new is fuzzy due to the length of time and...well...college in the 1970's
PS. It is not nearly as rusty as it appears in this photo...in fact I would not describe it as "rusty" at all. There is just the very lightest dusting of reddishness actually on it. It has been well cared for. The courseness of the steel that you see in the close-up is just how it is. I don't think that is pitting. It was just never polished.
Whoops! Had a momentary lapse of memory there--there was Guatemalan production as well that was quite excellent.
Whoops! Had a momentary lapse of memory there--there was Guatemalan production as well that was quite excellent.
I will scrutinize the thing tonight. I will also get some more pictures. The Old Man would have bet $50 that it was made in Guatemala I'm guessing...he must have told me a hundred time that's why it was so good...folks in Guatemala made great machetes in his mind...which was apparently true. When I say he loved that thing I am not kidding. He didn't give a darn about any automobile he ever owned...hated cars...but he was proud as he could be of that "Guatemalan Machete". I think in his mind it was the genuine article...kind of a thing.
I will get some more pics. Maybe I just overlooked the country mark.
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Posted this elsewhere today, so may as well do so here.
These are my favorite (non-axe) choppers. When Bark River come out with a 3V version of their golok, I will pick one up, but otherwise I think I'm pretty well covered.
Is your Fehrman is a Final Judgement, or a First Strike? It looks like a Final Judgement, but I can't be 100% sure.
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That's a final judgement (cutting edge length a little under 9"), but I had the handle slightly modified, cos the finger catch didn't really work for me on chopping blade.