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Originally Posted by Kalzazz
I have a cold steel brand machete and it does a superb job at hacking bamboo and other tough weeds and other such general around the house work
I am sure that far better machetes can be made and exist, but, would they really work that much better at things such as 'clearing bamboo away from your driveway' and such tasks machetes are made for?
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The Cold Steel branded machetes are currently made by Lasher Tools in South Africa. They suffer from occasional HT related QC issues and none of them have any distal taper making them feel dead in the hand and much less efficient to use. I figure that the $20 street price on a Cold Steel/Lasher machete is just over 5 times what it is actually worth considering how superior a $7 IMACASA is.
http://www.smkw.com/webapp/eCommerce...IMC503449.html*
While you might not be able to discern much of a difference wacking bamboo in your drive way for a few minutes, swinging one all day while clearing a fenceline , hacking out a garden plot or busting trail will surely tell a different tale.
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Originally Posted by Kalzazz
WalMart sells machetes for significantly less, and I have no idea how well they do/do not work
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Usually, they aren't worth even bothering.
*Error in the description. It isn't stainless, the blade is polished and clearcoated 1075.