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I own 4 machetes:
a gerber
a Pakistan cutlery
a cold steel
a condor
all of them came shipped to me so dull I would be embarrassed to give them to anyone for a garden tool gift much less any other application
so I had my Mexican file guy go to work on the.
the gerber is stainless steel but all the others are carbon,
would a decent stainless steel machet come sharper in the box than the carbon steel ones
(there’s a Chinese made stainless steel kukri I’m considering)
Are there any brands that are well known for being shipped paper cutting sharp out of the box?
a gerber
a Pakistan cutlery
a cold steel
a condor
all of them came shipped to me so dull I would be embarrassed to give them to anyone for a garden tool gift much less any other application

the gerber is stainless steel but all the others are carbon,
would a decent stainless steel machet come sharper in the box than the carbon steel ones
(there’s a Chinese made stainless steel kukri I’m considering)
Are there any brands that are well known for being shipped paper cutting sharp out of the box?