What is your favourite machete?

SharpBits said:
Not to be a Debbie Downer (I prefer Deborah) but Z-tuff is going to be expensive. Any plans for other steels?
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Yes this Z tuff version is basically a limited edition. They are very difficult and expensive to make. I'll have a 52100 version without the fuller available at a lower price point in the future.
 
I have no idea what brand it was and would love to find a duplicate but I was handed a very thin blade stock fairly whippy maybe 18" or so machete for cutting back vines from fences. This was in the late eighties near Columbus GA and all around the horse paddock was getting covered in kudzu growth. And while you couldn't stop the horses from chewing the fence boards that were coated in creosote or any other nasty chemical they sure wouldn't eat the kudzu. So we got paid a few dollars to clear the stuff back to the tree line. Those things stayed sharp and blazed through the tangles of vines.
 
Tramontina bush machetes for beaters and lighter work (although the bolo can chop). My Parang parang rintis for a non-beater/delightful time with lighter materials. My Parang 12” duku chandong for heavier work
 
I have been using a Marbles machete for a while now. Made in El Salvador (Imacasa?). Inexpensive, several patterns to choose from, and the orange finish makes them hard to loose.
 
although they might exist, I know of no one else who specializes in forged titanium machetes. If they do exist, it's hard to imagine they could make a better tool than Mecha Mecha
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Gato, I sure like that first one. When using the saw side, do you put a stick through the hole for a front handle?

Parker
 
My 3 favorite machetes freshly sharpened and ready to go.
Imicasa/ Marbles 18" Latin
Gavilan 16" bolo
Gavilan 14" Barrigon
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Because the little 14" gavilan Barrigon pattern is so handy it happens to be the one I end up using the most often for quick things, but is definitely not my choice when more significant work is to be done.
 
I was looking again to find the particular Gavilan " Bolo " machete as I've always assumed it was , and while I still didn't find them I did discover that this particular profile is in fact called a " Rozador " which I had never heard of before.


Has anybody else here heard of the Rozador pattern before?
 
I have several, but my personal favorite is my Cold Steel bowie machete, had it about 16 years now or a little better, thicker stock than my Trams or Gerber, takes a wicked edge and holds it really well, just eats up the brush and small branches. Can't remember what kind of steel it is though, maybe SK-5?
 
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