Cold Steel All Purpose Tactical Machete with Sheath, Great for Clearing Brush, Survival, Camping and Outdoor Activities, Kukri Plus Machete

Wanted a Cold Steel kukri machete for awhile, after I already got the CS Magnum Kukri a few years ago, but wanted a shorter version. This one filled the bill: sharp, great handling, and cheap when I bought it for $17.84. I didn't hesitate, snapped it up. You shouldn't either, buy one! UPDATE: So, I have had this a few months, and wanted to give additional perspective. Great balance in the hand, extremely fast and agile. Much smoother to use than my original CS Magnum Kukri, not so heavy or fatiguing, and actually cut brush and foliage better in my hands. The guard against hand creep is a great safety feature, first started with the CS Royal Kukri machete. Overall, it is nice and sturdy, not too much flex at all. It chops it up with the best of them. I got this thing at an insane price on Amazon for less than $18, an absolute bargain! It comes sharp, but I am a sharpening *demon and hit it up again. Now, it is deadly sharp, so bring on those zombies! 2nd UPDATE: I love this Kukri more and more, use it for home defense and it is deadly for that purpose. It is sharp as hell, and even after yard chores around the house, keeps its edge. I let my yard man use it to trim back bushes, and he didn't want to give it back, and then wanted to know where could get one. Just as I predicted, it would go up in price, it is now almost $30 plus shipping, while I got it for less than $18.00 plus free shipping. For those few complaining about the grip or edge, well it is your job to maintain it, so sharpen it and put grip tape, leather wrap, or ranger bands on it. It is a devastating chopper for bushing weed and saplings, and a superb home defense weapon, and again I just love mine.

I bought a house and the back yard was in bad shape. This tool made all the hard work a real pleasure. I live in Louisiana and I have a lot of bamboos near my back fence. Hacking bamboos with Cold Steel Kukri is one of the most fun things I have done. The shape of the blade is incredible in transmitting the force of the cut exactly where you want it, and using this tool efficiently just feels so natural. The first time I worked with it I kept destroying bamboos and their roots for over an hour and a half, my hands got blisters (the handle is great but the skin needs to harden in order to get used of this plastic) but I just kept going because it was just great fun cutting down things. As shown in the photo I covered the handle with leather straps, and I may also use a leather glove which is great if your work is mixed wood work with digging (uprooting bamboos etc). The inner most point of the curve of the blade works fantastic for shaping wood as shown in the photo. Minor dings on the blade from hitting small stones in the soil when hitting bamboos near their root. No impact whatsoever, not even in the sharpness of the blade by working long hours with hard wood. A solid tool that is a real pleasure to work with, and the price is just incredible. I am getting a second one soon.

Holds up to abuse well. Chopped down a tree with it easily, as fast as an axe, faster than a large fixed blade. For the money is a great blade, but I do have a few minor complaints 1. The blade has to grind to it. It's essentially flat the entire way up from the bevel. But the bevel is so gradual it works great for whatever you need from it, it's a machete thing. 2. I'd recommend using gloves with it, the handle will be rough on your hands after periods of extensive chopping, I got blister the first time I used this knife for several hours. But it could easily be avoided with care 3. It came rather dull, much more dull than I had expected, I sharpened it myself with a very basic sharpening system and it held that edge through a tree and more It's made in south Africa. Maybe the cold steel production group there doesn't quality control as well, or maybe cold steel just doesn't ship machetes as sharp as their folders, but it wasn't a big deal to me. This is probably the best kukri you could get for this price if you want to get some use and abuse out of it. If you somehow managed to break it, less than twenty bucks isn't anything to cry about, but from my heavy chopping and mild prying it hasn't ever given me reason to think it would fail when I needed it not to. Great product, would buy again.

From their South African production, this is a no-nonsense basic kukri machete/knife (a bit short for a traditional machete/a bit long for even a large knife). Came very sharp but rough (almost serrated from the large grit of the belt they put the edge on with). Fine for hacking down thick brush and small trees. It only took me about a half hour to smooth it out with a diamond stone (as you are really smoothing rather than sharpening). The steel is thick like a knife, so there is no traditional machete wobble and the added weight is why the length is shorter. If functions somewhat like a machete/hatchet hybrid and is best served in work where you would otherwise want to carry both of those tools. Good buy at a good price.

So an uncle since passed bought me one of these 25+ years ago, it has cut through tons of brush and fire wood still use it but I feel it might be time to conserve it...then I got this bad boy delivered, worth twice what it cost, durable black finish looks just like the old one did, solid scabbard. It comes with a very durable grind angle and is a RAZOR blade. These end heavy blade shapes don't deflect (much) when they cut. Great to keep in the truck For fire wood and brush cutting tasks. I got through a 6" log in a second...cutting accurately, sending huge chips in the air....I will stop gushing...worth it.

Buena adquisición a un precio muy razonable, retiene bien el filo.

Es ist wirklich erstaunlich, welche Qualität Cold Steel mit der hier rezensierten KUKRI PLUS MACHETE zu einem definitiv bescheidenen Preis liefert. Mit einer Gesamtlänge von 45 Zentimetern ist diese Machete definitiv ein ordentliches Kaliber. Die Verarbeitung ist, wie ich es bislang bei Cold Steel stets erlebte, sehr ordentlich und robust, der Griff liegt auch gut und sicher in der Hand. Direkt ausgepackt war die KUKRI PLUS MACHETE auch schon definitiv scharf, der Stahl macht auch (zumindest für den Preis) einen brauchbaren Eindruck – das ich die Machete nach etwas ausgedehnter Gartenarbeit nochmal nachschärfen musste liegt einfach in der Natur der Sache… das ist nun einmal bei Klingen unvermeidlich. Bei einem Vormittag Gartenarbeit zeigte sich – Cold Steel hat hier eine wirklich feine Machete auf den Markt gebracht, welche ihr Geld voll und ganz wert ist! Die KUKRI PLUS MACHETE ist widerstandsfähig und solide, der Griff erlaubt auch über etwas längere Zeiten ein gutes Arbeiten, und in Punkto Länge und Gewicht finde ich sie „genau richtig“. Hinzu kommt: die Klingenform ist mehr als eine exotische Spielerei, sondern macht definitiv Sinn. Kukris sind ja primär als Arbeits- und Haumesser gedacht, und ihre Klingenform sorgt dafür, dass proportional zu Länge und Gewicht eine erstaunliche Wucht freigesetzt wird… und diese Machete stellt das locker unter Beweis! Insgesamt: egal ob Zombies oder Astwerk, die KUKRI PLUS MACHETE macht keine Gefangenen. Angesichts der guten Qualität und des mehr als günstigen Preis-Leistungsverhältnisses gebe ich gerne die Höchstnote!

Works great,takes a sharp edge. The finger guard is a great touch. Bought it as a gift for my son and he loves it! Nice secure sheath.

Habe den Kukri schon über drei Jahre und erst letzte Woche hatte ich einen wild wuchernden Walnussbaum, der sich auf einem Grundstück ausgebreitet hatte. Da ich keine Astschere dabei hatte musste ich den Kukri nehmen, der gute Arbeit geleistet hat. Ich hatte den Kukri nicht nach geschärft, aber auch die dicken Äste konnte ich mit zwei drei Schlägen abtrennen. Habe noch einen zweiten Kukri "rumliegen" der ebenfalls von diesem Hersteller kommt und 200 Gramm mehr hat. Kann die Gurkas jetzt verstehen, warum sie diese Dinger so toll finden....

I bought this to know whether or not the more expensive gurkha kukri plus was for me. Needs work on the edge a bit (just refinement), but it's a great tool. For $30 bucks I knew what I was getting and am very happy with it.