Instead of a machete or a kuhkri, how about a pharang?
Way cool choppers, and you can easily sharpen the blade at different angels for different tasks as the shape makes it easy to "segregate" usage of the various areas.
Do you mean a "barong"? I've never heard of a pharang. I actually prefer either a golok or a bolo to a barong though.
I'd really like to see Busse/Swamp Rat/Scrapyard start making some other cool (but always useful) tools. The Crash Rat is a huge step in that direction.