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Hybrid is the word that comes to mind when I use this knife.
As I was telling someone else earlier today, this knife strikes a very nice balance between chopper and machete.
It's not a brush cutter like a thin 18"+ Tramontina or similar machete. On the other hand, it's not a big 1/4" thick chopper either.
It is a sizeable knife though with a big honkin' 1085 carbon-steel blade. Specs online say 13 1/4" or 14" depending on where you look.
Mine measures in right at 13 3/4" long with a 1/8" thick blade. I didn't spec it with calipers, but just eyeballed against a tape measure.
I have mostly used my Grass Machete for wood processing, and in the pictures below, I am prepping a couple of evening fires in a fire bowl out back.
In this first fire, I batoned through a number of logs and stacked them, chimney-like, in the bowl.
The Grass Machete will make quick work of smaller limbs.
The knife features Tooj's very comfortable handles that I've come to like on both the Grass Machete and the Cutlass.
The knife handled lateral stress quite well. Here it is being torqued sideways by some whomper-jawed wood grain.
Beaten out of the log, the blade snapped back to straight just fine.
And after a little more beating, I did make it through the log.
The happy knife after a good work-out...
... and warming by the fireside.
Some conclusions:
It's a great, affordable knife that can pull double duty as chopper or machete. The steel has a good heat treatment and holds an edge.
I've put mine through its paces three or four times now, and the blade is still shaving sharp (literally...I just took some hair off my forearm with it).
If you need something for bush or tree clearing or for camp-side wood processing, this knife will serve you well, and though I prefer more reach and a thinner blade for clearing thinner media (vines, grass, etc.), this blade will still do the job at 1/8" thick.
As I was telling someone else earlier today, this knife strikes a very nice balance between chopper and machete.
It's not a brush cutter like a thin 18"+ Tramontina or similar machete. On the other hand, it's not a big 1/4" thick chopper either.
It is a sizeable knife though with a big honkin' 1085 carbon-steel blade. Specs online say 13 1/4" or 14" depending on where you look.
Mine measures in right at 13 3/4" long with a 1/8" thick blade. I didn't spec it with calipers, but just eyeballed against a tape measure.
I have mostly used my Grass Machete for wood processing, and in the pictures below, I am prepping a couple of evening fires in a fire bowl out back.
In this first fire, I batoned through a number of logs and stacked them, chimney-like, in the bowl.
The Grass Machete will make quick work of smaller limbs.
The knife features Tooj's very comfortable handles that I've come to like on both the Grass Machete and the Cutlass.
The knife handled lateral stress quite well. Here it is being torqued sideways by some whomper-jawed wood grain.
Beaten out of the log, the blade snapped back to straight just fine.
And after a little more beating, I did make it through the log.
The happy knife after a good work-out...
... and warming by the fireside.
Some conclusions:
It's a great, affordable knife that can pull double duty as chopper or machete. The steel has a good heat treatment and holds an edge.
I've put mine through its paces three or four times now, and the blade is still shaving sharp (literally...I just took some hair off my forearm with it).
If you need something for bush or tree clearing or for camp-side wood processing, this knife will serve you well, and though I prefer more reach and a thinner blade for clearing thinner media (vines, grass, etc.), this blade will still do the job at 1/8" thick.
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