Peace Corps bring back: Modern Cameroon utility/ bush knife/ machete

[fearn]

I should note that you can get a pretty good sampling of commercially available machetes is at http://www.machetespecialists.com/

Those three grind lines make me think it was ground down from a Wortools Tapanga style machete (http://www.machetespecialists.com/wo...apanga-18.html).

F

[KuKulzA28]

That's a good site for a wide sampling, though I'd say some of the prices are a bit higher than other vendors.

It very well could be a wortools, though i wouldn't rule out Martindales. I think the big red sticker is a martindale. As you can see in the photo of the guy sharpening those tapangas, some of them have the red sticker with the Ralph Martindale crocodile on it.

In my experience the wortools machete was utter crap. Didn't hold a good edge, handle was loose and made of cheap, unfinished wood. I'd take an Imacasa, Martindale, Tramontina, or Hansa... or an old Collins - any day over Wortools. Or a local handmade kukri, or e-nep, or laraw, or itak... etc. The "Made in China" machetes I encountered in Guyana were also of similarly bad quality. Most who could afford them got Tramontinas from Brasil... was stuck using a made in China one (no brand name stamped on it) and had to sharpen it 2x a day

[Nathaniel]

Originally Posted by fearn

I should note that you can get a pretty good sampling of commercially available machetes is at http://www.machetespecialists.com/

Those three grind lines make me think it was ground down from a Wortools Tapanga style machete (http://www.machetespecialists.com/wo...apanga-18.html).

F

Fern, that is great...very interesting to see what is commercially available!