aw willie you beat me to it.

HI makes the most effective choppers i've ever owned. as far as chopping power/dollar goes, they are king. anyone wants to challenge that, bring your DF to NJ and we'll settle it. my ganga ram was $60, new, with lifetime warranty, and outchops my battle mistresses, fat and corrugated.

course, if you wanna do things other than chop with it...don't get a khuk. HI makes smaller cutters, but modern knives typically outperform those models easily.

I always thought CS's LTC model was cool looking, though. now you can only get the machete version. I ordered one and bladematrix sent me the magnum version instead, which i have yet to test. I may still buy the other one. i say if you've gotta have a CS, get the machete and put a good edge on it. if you want the real deal, go HI.


as for the brkt...i gotta see that. may not be able to pass on that one.