I have been wanting to try the Condors. How are the Marbles? I hear they are pretty good too. differentially treated 101 would be awesome (but I would be fine with SR-77)....What size would you prefer HD?

My vote is no, because I'm waiting for a sword. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crossfingers.gif" alt="" /> About 18" and made of SR77 would be cool! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

I know there are a lot of sword lovers out there, but I can't afford to buy knives I have no real use for, and if you are buying a long blade for brush clearing or trail maintenance, a machete can't be beat.

I'd like one about 14" to 15" in blade length. In the longer machetes that I use for clearing, I have yet to find any better than the 18" and 22" Tramontinas. They are light enough to swing all day. Never tried the Marbles. For a heavy chopping machete, the Cold Steel Panga is a beast. The Condor bolo is another good one.

I think that a machete-class blade should be interesting. You know that it would be the toughest one out there. One of the dilemmas with a machete is probably that there are a lot of fair to decent cheap options out there, so people's incentive to go up-scale may be limited? I know that the people on the forum would support it, but I wonder how big the overall market would be? I hope that they make one, though.

If thats what you want I'd snare a Waki its pretty close.

How think does s7 even come? or can they get? would they be more expensive to make so thin because they need to grind them from thick stock?
I have to agree, I always though machetes should be pretty cheap, and I don't think one of sr77 would have many advantages over a simple one made of 1095.

How expensive would it really be to make one?

A machete is thinner than Scrapyard's quarter-inch prybars, so that's less steel to buy... But is the major cost of a Scrapyard blade its steel? The initial machining? The primary grinding? The handle? The heat treating? How big a chunk of metal can their current equipment handle?

Without knowing intimate details about how the company works and how it buys material, I don't think we can make any intelligent comment about how expensive it would be to make a machete.

More interesting in my mind, is whether it would be a /better tool/ than what's already available. We already know that Scrapyard commits truly devoted amounts of time to making sure that they turn out only the best product. But in this case, because a machete is a very different tool than a knife (being a thinner and longer blade and subjected to very high speed impacts), would they be making the Omega of machetes or just one one that takes catastrophically damage a bit less frequently than the competition?

In other words, can they make a machete that is actually worth whatever it does cost them to make, or would even Scrapyard be unable to overcome the physics-based realities of machetes that tend to make them (comparatively) disposable. It strikes me that a machete which is so tough that it plows through everything in its path and never gets any damage in return is going to be too heavy to want to use, and a machete which actually does its job well and smoothly is going to be taking some damage from hard hits due to its geometry. Not enough to break it, but enough to dent and deform the edge, such that it requires heavy maintenance to keep in working order, and you certainly don't want to be taking a hammer and file to a hundred-dollar+ bar of steel on a regular basis...

Discuss.

...what about swords? Not really your everyday carry. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

id buy one....if i had the dunny

The Machete...is a fairly specialize tool...not everyone uses one daily..ecpt DocSavage....but it is a Valuable tool ,like the rest of the blades we buy. Everyone of them have a purpose. My CS Bolo is holding up well , my Ontario is heavier than need be...but a Scrapyard Machete would become a world class bushcutter....DEA , DoD and every surveyor I know would sign up for one....IF the price is right...

15" blade on a DF would do for me. About 7/16" thick. Better than any machete IMO.

15" blade on a DF would do for me. About 7/16" thick. Better than any machete IMO.

Bet that would be pretty heavy though.

Bet that would be pretty heavy though.

You could strap 4 pieces of rebar together and try to swing it around to get a sense of the weight.

I personally love a heavy chopper. The bigger the better. Something that will take down a whole rain forest. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

You wouldn't need to. That psychotic chihuahua on meth would melt the jungle with its eyeballs.

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