What! No RAT Machete yet!

jeff_c said:
Where are you guys seeing these condor machetes for 7.00?
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...did anyone say that? I missed that if someone did.:confused: The Condor line is in the upper price range by machete standards, but are absolutely dirt cheap compared to large fixed-bladed knives.
 
10 dollar ontario camp machete with a re-edge has always done the job for me. And when I wreck it I drop 10 bucks on a new one.
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
...did anyone say that? I missed that if someone did.:confused: The Condor line is in the upper price range by machete standards, but are absolutely dirt cheap compared to large fixed-bladed knives.
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No it was a "Hypothetical $7" so why buy a Rat if you can buy that. Same reason ppl don't buy Fixed blades that cheap and buy Rats. PPL would buy them. Dunno if theres a big market.
 
ironmike86 said:
No it was a "Hypothetical $7" so why buy a Rat if you can buy that. Same reason ppl don't buy Fixed blades that cheap and buy Rats. PPL would buy them. Dunno if theres a big market.
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I am pretty sure the reference was to the Tramotina(sp?) line of machetes.
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
That is, indeed, the case. :)
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is it really????? How disappointing... I'm going to start making my own micarta scales soon, I'll just make a set for my camp machete then. I almost bought a nice Bark River hatchet prototype on ebay for 100 dollars the other night but decided to hold off and put it towards a few custom cold steel frontier hawk projects :)
 
ron_m80 said:
I am pretty sure the reference was to the Tramotina(sp?) line of machetes.
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How good are those tramontinas? Is that a brand name or a style? Is the only diffirence between the tramontina and the condor the handle and the edge it comes with?
 
jeff_c said:
So Condor is the company everyone is talking about? I dinged the crap out of my machete on a rock this weekend... DUMB DUMB DUMB... I know.

Should I look at Condor as the new one? Price sure sounds right!
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Any blade, no matter what kind of steel it's made out of or how it's heat treated, will take a ding if you smack it into a rock. Unless you're a comic book character and have "admantium" claws. A ding in your edge won't affect performance much. Just grind it down, or hammer the roll back into place, sharpen 'er up, and you're in business.

I know RAT Cutlery is about making knives in the USA, but I wonder if they'd be interested in doing a collaboration with Condor. IE- having a machete made to their specs in El Salvador, and putting the RAT logo on it. A RAT machete would probably have been more likely when they were still with Ontario, as Ontario already makes machetes. It would have been easier to slap some micarta on a few, and put a better edges on them then.
 
What I mean about the tramontinas is if I do a google search for one are they all the same or are some made by a diffirent company ect.
 
SOUTHSTAR said:
How good are those tramontinas? Is that a brand name or a style? Is the only diffirence between the tramontina and the condor the handle and the edge it comes with?
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An internal discussion on BF, Tramontina Machetes

They are reported to be an EXTREMELY good VALUE. I however do not own one.
 
Thanks for the link .

One other thing I was curious about. What are you guys using fora sheath on these 1095 machetes?
 
moonwilson said:
I know RAT Cutlery is about making knives in the USA, but I wonder if they'd be interested in doing a collaboration with Condor. IE- having a machete made to their specs in El Salvador, and putting the RAT logo on it.
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That would be AMAZING! :D
 
I'm not sure how we could improve on what Condor already has....
 
PayetteRucker said:
is it really????? How disappointing... I'm going to start making my own micarta scales soon, I'll just make a set for my camp machete then. I almost bought a nice Bark River hatchet prototype on ebay for 100 dollars the other night but decided to hold off and put it towards a few custom cold steel frontier hawk projects :)
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All the $10 Ontarios I have seen are the Economy line with the .080" thick blades (even those are usually more like $12-15), where are you getting the camper line with the .125" thick blade for $10? This may be deal spotting, could you PM me?
 
I looked into those condor blades and it looks like they are made out of stainless. I was under the impression that 1095 was stronger so why is the high end made of stainless. It seems to be quite the opposite with knives.
 
Generally speaking that's the case...but not with these. They're super high quality. They're coming out with some new ones in carbon steel, including the El Salvador one. I even think that the carbon El Salvador is sans hole. I know Joe (Joezilla) has been trying to get them to de-hole and de-smurph their lineup (though I quite like the blue myself).
 
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