this looks so cool. good machete chopper ?

On another site it says a lot of the condors have black epoxy coating on tge blade. Doesn't sound like that will be food safe. Do they sell uncoated blades too?
 
Love Mine. The grip's (was) a little slick. Section of bike tube, iseert handle, problem solved. Great all around camp tool.
 
Straight edge for chopping big stuff, curved blade for wrapping around and cutting through smaller stuff. That right there is the ultimate brush tool.
 
chaibill said:
On another site it says a lot of the condors have black epoxy coating on tge blade. Doesn't sound like that will be food safe. Do they sell uncoated blades too?
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You can remove the epoxy with a lot of sanding. They don't sell uncoated versions... I never really worried about it on my other blades, if the coating comes off when cutting through a steak or an apple, something's clearly wrong.
 
Goosey said:
You can remove the epoxy with a lot of sanding. They don't sell uncoated versions... I never really worried about it on my other blades, if the coating comes off when cutting through a steak or an apple, something's clearly wrong.
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yeah guess so. wouldn't want to eat off an epoxy floor.
 
I have removed the coating from my boomslang and polished it to a rough satin finish. Stripping it was pretty easy. I just used paint stripper (about 30 minutes) then scraped the black off with a putty knife. It came off really easy.

After that, i ran my belt sander on it at 120 grit up to 1000 grit. It looks nice now :)
 
Cured epoxy will not contaminate food. I'd only be concerned if the coating flaked off in the food or something.
 
I use my Bush Knife all the time--absolutely fantastic tool. Since it's one of their stainless models the coating isn't epoxy--it's their UltraBlac2 finish, which is something similar to a DLC as far as I can tell. Mine is from way back in 2005 when they were still using blue handles and there wasn't a lanyard hole, and NONE of the coating has worn off. It's pretty much permanently bonded on there and I don't think you'd have to worry about it coming off in your food when it won't come off after repeated use batoning/splitting kindling. The performance characteristics of the Bush Knife and the Viking both served as heavy influences for the design of the Baryonyx machete. :):thumbup:

By the way, I'm temporarily out of them but have one showing up either by the end of this week or early next.
 
chaibill said:
On another site it says a lot of the condors have black epoxy coating on tge blade. Doesn't sound like that will be food safe. Do they sell uncoated blades too?
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I'd worry more about what's in the food than it coming in contact with a durable coating.;)
 
Yeah ok all good ideas. That baryonyx chopper looks interesting. What other machetes do you recommend. I hear marbles are good.
 
Marbles machetes are made by Imacasa, which is Condor's parent company. Bush Knives are landing monday btw. :)
 
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