Soo sad. I got myself a bark river golok for xmas. used it for 30 min chopping "green" red oak limbs from a tree we had cut down that was near the house. We are talking cutt a limb off the trunk 2-3 inch dia max, then start chopping from the leaves to the base of the limb in 5inch segments on a piece of the trunk for a chopping block.by chopping block i mean piece of stove length trunk turned on end. after 3, 4 foot long limbs i noticed a approx 5mm half moon chip about 4 inches from the point end. sent it back the next day, x mas eve. whoa is me.
i went back and forth whether or not to get a short machette from ontario to go with the 22" one i have had for 15years. you know the kind that don't chip unless you hit rocks. The kind where you can chop limbs for days, maybe weeks on end with out a narry a chip. I mean wtf did my dad have the lock ness monster bless my ontario machette, and then before giving it to me reprofile the edge on a statue of the virgin marry? because let me tell you ladies and gentle men a $49 or how ever much ontario machette flat out will piss all over and then take a huge steaming dump on the BRKT GOLoK in A2 that was sent to my house that i paid $213 for.
Now as a disclaimer the knife was sent back to the parent co. to see what can be done, and it was also requested that either my money be returned or a knife capable of chopping some bitc* as* oak limbs with out chipping be sent back to me.
WTF Is the dang thing designed to whittle balsa or shape florist foam?
Only time will tell.
i keep you posted with the results of either how i spend my 213 dollars or how the new golok performs. Maybe i'll start by chopping some pussy willows first before graduating to a move severe wood.
i'll also include a picture of the chipping sometime.
disclaimer 2 this being my first brkt i have no clue whether they are worth a damn or not. this one was not. hopefully it was a fluke.
i went back and forth whether or not to get a short machette from ontario to go with the 22" one i have had for 15years. you know the kind that don't chip unless you hit rocks. The kind where you can chop limbs for days, maybe weeks on end with out a narry a chip. I mean wtf did my dad have the lock ness monster bless my ontario machette, and then before giving it to me reprofile the edge on a statue of the virgin marry? because let me tell you ladies and gentle men a $49 or how ever much ontario machette flat out will piss all over and then take a huge steaming dump on the BRKT GOLoK in A2 that was sent to my house that i paid $213 for.
Now as a disclaimer the knife was sent back to the parent co. to see what can be done, and it was also requested that either my money be returned or a knife capable of chopping some bitc* as* oak limbs with out chipping be sent back to me.
WTF Is the dang thing designed to whittle balsa or shape florist foam?
Only time will tell.
i keep you posted with the results of either how i spend my 213 dollars or how the new golok performs. Maybe i'll start by chopping some pussy willows first before graduating to a move severe wood.
i'll also include a picture of the chipping sometime.
disclaimer 2 this being my first brkt i have no clue whether they are worth a damn or not. this one was not. hopefully it was a fluke.
Get yourself an assortment of good machete's & have a chop off. Get you an Ontario 12" & 18" machete, an Imacasa or 2, a Tramontina or 2 & a Condor or 2. You could buy ALL of those for the same price or less as the BR Golok.