Machete's

A couple more of mine, a heavy Flores Cortes Banana knife that's like a cleaver & a short Martindale.

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Martindale made in Cameroon.

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Photo challenged at the moment, but I have a lot of machetes. About a dozen choppers, including several Condors, and most recently a Bidor parang and BKT Reinhart kukri, which haven’t been here long enough to get a tryout. Also quite a few slashers, the most used being 14” bolos from Tramontina and Imacasa. Got the Baryonyx machete in there, too.
 
Mattchettay, of course…


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12" blade of .150" thick Crucible CPM-4v, with all the gritty, raunchy hot milling finish left on the flats, and a short bevel that's ever-so-gently convexed. Overall length is just shy of 18", with a 6" handle of Cumaru. Tough as hell due to its interlocking grain, and decidedly NOT G-10. I wanted something that would look like you found it in your Grandfather's shed (or, for those of you that are Millennials, in your Great-Grandfather's shed😛). Flared stainless tubing for pins that will also do double duty as lanyard holes, and both fore and aft holes work great for this, depending on how you prefer to place it.


Made this maybe 8 years ago, now, in response to a buddy shaming me into watching ‘The Walking Dead’ and wanting to see what I’d come up with for a ‘zombie chopper’. That show sucked, the knife didn’t.
 
I've owned and heavily used Ontario 22" machetes for decades and they've served me well.
Since I chop up some thicker branches, the heft of the longer and heavier blade work best for my use.
I buy the ones with the orange handles so when I put them down to use my other tools (chainsaw for example), they're easy to find.
 
RickHuf said:
I have this thing. It was a clearance buy from gander mountain store a long time ago.

Its a janky Gerber but it's served well over the years. Hopefully it will be replaced with something much cooler in the future. 😉😆

The parang shape is pretty cool. Kind of like a machete and hatchet in one.

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I had the larger version of this horrible thing. To it's credit, I beat the hell out of it and it held up really well.
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I like that little Imacasa. Do the handles hold up well?

I need a new machete but I do not want to replace the handle.
 
SwissHeritageCo said:
I had the larger version of this horrible thing. To it's credit, I beat the hell out of it and it held up really well.


I like that little Imacasa. Do the handles hold up well?

I need a new machete but I do not want to replace the handle.
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The Imacasa holds up well. Nothing beats the "5 pack of surplus machetes for $25" deal. They always come with at least one parang-like blade that you can cut down to whatever you want.
 

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SwissHeritageCo said:
I had the larger version of this horrible thing. To it's credit, I beat the hell out of it and it held up really well.


I like that little Imacasa. Do the handles hold up well?

I need a new machete but I do not want to replace the handle.
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For as much as I hate on it, the thing has done everything I've needed it to do for years.
 
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