I was all in until I saw the video of you “safely” closing it. Watching you struggle with the blade side had me wincing. But then seeing the safety removed and it actually working, I think I am back in again.
How does it function as a machete? Because for the nearly $200 price tag I found I can get multiple high quality, functional, machetes for that price. And while I am a lover of balisongs, I am a lover of affordable, functional, blades even more.
It should work fine for hacking at vines and twigs and branches and so forth. Obviously it’s a little short, at maybe a shade over half the length of my actual Ontario Knife machete, and on this thing a lot of it is handle. The blade geometry is basically exactly as if someone just took the front 7" off of a normal machete and stuck it on the handles. You’re not going to want to clear an entire acre with it but it should be plenty enough for trimming up firewood and maybe splitting a small length of log or two around your campsite.
I’ll probably take it with me camping this spring and see if I wind up breaking it.
dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
nocturne