[Tikker]

Just droping in to give my review on this machete i used over my week vacation in the North Georgia mountains. While i was up i stopped my buddies job where he works as a taxidermist, well he had this professional 3 stone blade sharpener and fixed up both my Cold Steel Bushman and the Two Handed Machete i took up with me.

After he finished up working them over...took some time to with the carbon steel these knives comes with.....i was able to easily shave my hair off

The test was when i was out camping, i needed some firewood to light up the night and headed out into the woods. Found two pine trees, both being around 17' tall and with trunks around 7 and 8" wide. After taking both down and taking limbs off and making small work of various small trees and brush to stock the fire with i called it a night. Now i wasn't easy on this blade one bit, i dragged both trees with it...letting it take a good bite and using the handle to pull it while it being sideways. Never took a new form or dulled it one bit....as the next morning i picked it up out of the truck bed where i had thrown it and tested it on my arm once again....low and behold it still shaved the arm hair off!

Now the price on it was 14$ online, best cash i ever spent on anythng...and i'm buying 3 more just for safe keeping in the garage, both truck box's and camper. I didn't fully test the Bushman as it only did easy work on all the trout i caught but I feel confident with it on my belt while out in the bush.

 

[Yehudi]

Which machete did you buy? Cold Steel has Katana Machete, Panga Machete, Kukri Machete, and one just called machete in two handed versions. I liked the Kukri and Katana models.

 

[sluggyslugworth]

You should copy and paste this then post it in the Blade Review forum.As this will slowly work its way into page 1020384.Where no one will see it.And thanks for your review im sure people will find it very helpfull.

http://www.survivalistboards.com/forumdisplay.php?f=98

 

[Tikker]

Its the two handed machete, like on midwayusa... http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?productNumber=190386


Thanks for that tip Slugworth, i'll post it up there now:thumb:

 

[jungatheart]

1053110 is a coupon code for Midway. $10 off a $50 order. Enter it on 1st checkout screen

 

[Yehudi]

Because of this thread, I decided to buy a machete. I bought a single handed Cold Steel Kukri machete at a local store. It came with a rudimentary edge, so I sharpened it first. I used it to trim all the sucker branches off my cottonwood trees. I also used it to hack off some larger branches including a few on the white oak tree. It worked very well.

I think that having the mass of the blade further out on the blade is what makes the kukri so effective. I like the balance, the shape, and the angle of the blade.

This machete has a medium carbon blade, so it probably won’t hold an edge like high carbon steel. I think they did that to make the blade more flexible and less likely to break, especially considering the thinness of the blade.

Over all, I like it.

 

[Tikker]

Glad to hear the review helped you! My machete didn't come with much of an edge either, my first time useing it was on a brazillian pepper tree here in florida. Did the job and I was satisfied at the time, wasn't till the edge got put on that i realized the durability it was capable of.

Jungatheart is right about the 10$ off, that was how i purchased it along with the bushman. I always look out for the coupons from Midway as they are hard to pass up on items like these.