Machete VS. Kukri

[barrabas74]

I have the cold steel kukri machete, I'm going to have to disagree with the user who complained about it, personally I think it's great. I chopped alot of wild grape brush with it, hacked through tree braches 2inch diameter to about 6.5 inch. It did everything really well except split wood, it did kind of suck at that. It was still "paper" cutting sharp after about 1 and a half hours of sporadic hack and slash, it didn't hold it's edge as well as the kabar USMC, the Gerber LMF or the Kershaw Outcast (D2), but hacked about the best for $20 bucks, it's pretty awesome. I plan on getting a few more CS machetes.

Yeah, I mean Like I said I must have gotten a crappy heat treat in mine cuz it wont hold an edge for spit. The edge dents, or curls out really easily while even my cheap walmart version out cut it. I guess I could try another one but this one left me pretty turned off to there products. I have used the Ka-Bar and I did like that and was pleased with its overall performance.

 

[hobbyist]

or buy a parang

 

[Yoshi]

I think khukuri like this are hard to beat, and great value for money

 

[stickmaster2000]

I have used the Ghurkha Kukri and they are really nice blades. However as a Filipino Martial Arts practitioner I have to say I really like the Sundang of the Visayan region and the Moro style Barong, both are not too different from the Kukri, very similar in cutting ability.