Great idea for a chop off!! I will do this in a week or so's time...this coming week has me all over the place...but I still have a "downed" fir tree to sort out...so there is a great oppertunity there.

Having used them both the first thing on comfort is that the CS Khukri had stipples to use your expression like a "pine cone" so following a suggestion from Northern I took the dremmel with a sanding wheel to it and this is now "comfortable" but I doubt it could go all day like the NMFBM did without beginning to give some "hot spots". Sticky rubber can do that for me.

They both have tremendous chopping power...using the blade design right I think on some "tree felling" the Khukri might have the "edge" in depth of a cut...but it has been reprofiled and convexed a lot to get it like that. For "clearance" work and "branches" and allowing for fatigue...the NMFBM with it's long straight blade has a much bigger "sweet spot"...the Khukri is a fair bit harder to use because if you miss the "right area" which is bang on the belly crest of the curve...you miss out on a good cut...so on this basis I would give the likely vote on "long work" to the NMFBM...which is why I picked it for that task. The Kukri is not as easy a blade design to use on such a large variety of cuts and angles compared to the lines of the NMFBM...probably why most Machetes have a long straight blade shape.

Used to chop through a log laid flat on a stump...or raised and fixed with some tripods of sticks at each end...the depth of the log would need to be "big" to tell the difference...I expect there might be a "tie" on most medium diameter logs with "three" strokes either side of the V doing it and the log then snapping. Anyway....we can find that out on the test... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />