Good multi-use machete?

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I am looking for a good multiple purpose machete mainly as a survival tool. It should have good thickness and a decent length to it. Also if anyone can tell me how to post pictures that would be great too.
 
Welcome.

What do expect your machete to do during "survival"? Knowing that will help everyone answer your question.

Knowing where you expect to do it would help also.
 
Well have a flat spine, good for batoning, have a flat butte, good for mashing at different things and/or removable handle scales.
 
Well I don't know what kinda price range where talking about but my top picks would be the esee junglas, large becker or any large knife from busse/swamp rat/scrap yard knives.......also if ya want somthing cheap why not a good old Ontario
Mili surplus machete?
 
ESEE Junglas is a great blade! Once you buy an ESEE, you ain't buying anything else for a while!
 
Um. A 9" 3/16" thick knife is not a machete guys. :D Really its not. It might be cool, but it's not a machete.
I've been happy with my cold steel machetes though I don't like the "scandi" grind on them, and I know guys who really really like their Ontario machetes, it seems like everybody around here has one in their truck. I've also heard very good things about condor machetes. I've not owned any of their machetes but I have owned a couple of their knives and have been happy with them. Also, I've found that most inexpensive machetes come with no edge, so expect to sharpen them out of the box, I use a fine bastard file on mine. (condor machetes should come with a polished convex edge like their knives)
For a machete to work well it should be pretty thin, 1/8" or 3/32" should be about right, and it should be pretty long, 18-24" is about right in my book. YMMV
 
Chris Pierce said:
Um. A 9" 3/16" thick knife is not a machete guys. :D Really its not. It might be cool, but it's not a machete.
I've been happy with my cold steel machetes though I don't like the "scandi" grind on them, and I know guys who really really like their Ontario machetes, it seems like everybody around here has one in their truck. I've also heard very good things about condor machetes. I've not owned any of their machetes but I have owned a couple of their knives and have been happy with them. Also, I've found that most inexpensive machetes come with no edge, so expect to sharpen them out of the box, I use a fine bastard file on mine. (condor machetes should come with a polished convex edge like their knives)
For a machete to work well it should be pretty thin, 1/8" or 3/32" should be about right, and it should be pretty long, 18-24" is about right in my book. YMMV
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You trying the get the Beckerheads mad? lol I agree though its not a machete.....it's a chopper!!
 
PatrickKnight said:
Svord Kiwi would be my choice unless its purely for the jungle or thin vegitation.
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yup! i've tried extensively/had the choppers (becker bk-9, esee junglas, busse basic 11), the in-between (becker patrol machete, condor parang), all the way to pure machetes (condor eco-light 12", 12" tramontina, esee lite-machete 18" long) and the svord kiwi is the perfect balance between the two extremes...tip heavy and really fast in the hand (it feels a lot like a pure machete) but thick enough that it can split wood with the choppers.

it's the only one out of all those i tried though where the handle ergos are nice enough to do fine carvings so it can replace a 4" belt knife too.

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edit: forgot to mention the svord is made from L6 steel - better edge holding than 1095/1095-crovan in my experience.
 
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