Show off your machetes!!!

I need to update the photo of my "chopper" collection:

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My Patton Bowie isn't shown and I just received my "polished" 12" Ontario machete with convex grind (complements to Justin of Ranger Knives).

ROCK6
 
orrey45 said:
Thats sweet shecky, what was the original machete before the grinder?
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They're both the same model, a Tramontina Bolo, the older is original size, the newer one cut down from the handle end. I was originally going to make up some DIY micarta for a handle, but the wooden handle survived being removed, so I reused it.
 
I got this at a flea market for 5 bucks
It's my 1st EVER machete!!:thumbup:
I can't find any info on Waylett Made in Sheffield :mad:

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Here's an old machete I found in the woods near my house (way back before the woods got turned into subdivisions!), this is going back many years. It's one hell of a beater, warped all to hell, rusted beyond belief, barely sharp at all and ugly as sin. It keeps the neighbor kids off the propery though! :D

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No idea as to it's make or origin. It was just there off the trail, waiting to be claimed.
 
I'm pretty ruff on machetes (apparently) I've broke a ontario, and bent a coldsteel. The ontario was my favorite before it broke, they sent a replacement but tramontina has become my favorite, tough low priced just simply a good tool!
 
Okay
Ill play :)

this is an old pic , needs updating some but its got most of them here anyway
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out of all of them , this is my favorite , again , is an old pic too , its not so pretty anymore
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perksy said:
Nice collection ROCK6. How do you like the Fehrman??
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I decided on Fehman's Extreme Judgement. I love 3V, but I think it's a little light for heavy chopping. On softer vegetation it rocks! For hard wood it just doesn't seem to have the mass or profile to chop well.

Midwest Ninja said:
ROCK6, what's the second knife from the top in the second picture? It's dead sexy.
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That's Bark River's Evolution-1. They made a run and Mike said he probably wouldn't do another due to the harzards in convex sharpening it:( It's a great blade that balances well and chops betting than bigger blades...and yes it does look pretty sexy:D

ROCK6
 
Myal said:
Okay
Ill play :)

this is an old pic , needs updating some but its got most of them here anyway
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Hey Myal, what's the 4th chopper from the left...first one after the axes? I like the sweep on that blade.

ROCK6
 
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me in my zombie killing gear

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by lack of zombies the chair had to suffer

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but zombies or no zombies, i still want kukris
gonna buy some, i kinda wonder how their odd shape feels actually

the cs kukri style machete is probably the easiest kukri for me to buy, but i dont really think it can pass as a kukri
 
My Harbor Fright special. It's the new style with the rubber grip. Very comfy :thumbup:

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ROCK6 said:
Hey Myal, what's the 4th chopper from the left...first one after the axes? I like the sweep on that blade.

ROCK6
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its an early forging effort , messing around with forging bevels and heat treat , it turned out to be a seriously good chopper , I prefer it to a hatchet .
 
This is my only one. A Martindale Crocodile 1945 ,I found at a thrift store. I must not know how to sharpen it correctly because it labors real hard just to hack down a one inch diameter locust tree,

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mneedham said:
Has anybody got one of these? Came real close to pulling the trigger.. but my wife went crazy and bought me a couple of knives for Valentine's Day, so didn't do it.. Looks nice to me though!

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Nice, buts its no smatchet.:D
I think the forward weight bias would make this thing an incredibly fun to use chopper. Takes a little more energy to get a swing going, but momentum takes over!
 
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