Another run of Whale Rescue Blade is needed.

[SaltyCaribbeanDfly]

I have to admit that I would love a 12 inch salt-series machete, but maybe separate from the Whale Rescue Blade. I’d buy both.

Ditto

[brancron]

I'm happy to see my Frankenwhale knife featured in this thread! Here's another picture:



The handle (peel-ply orange G1) was done by Knockwood Blades and the blade tip was reprofiled by bladechops (or so he goes on instagram).

[Fireman]

I'm happy to see my Frankenwhale knife featured in this thread! Here's another picture:



The handle (peel-ply orange G1) was done by Knockwood Blades and the blade tip was reprofiled by bladechops (or so he goes on instagram).

I’d love to get your input on how you think this knife would work as a machete vs a plain edge.

[brancron]

I’d love to get your input on how you think this knife would work as a machete vs a plain edge.

I've used this one a fair amount puttering around in the garden and woods, and it works really well as a sort of hand scythe. It cuts through softer plants and vegetation like butter. But it has a tendency to get snagged on harder stuff (unless it's used as a saw, in which case it works well), and doesn't really have the right geometry for chopping like a machete does. So to me it's more of a scythe saw combo. It would be cool to try one out in plain edge as well, but it would likely not have that great aggressiveness the serrations give it.

[Fireman]

Thanks. So the perfect “machete” would have the serrated “Scythe” on the concave side and plain edge on the convex side for the traditional chopping strokes. So we need a bi directional machete handle and some magic fairies to whisper in Sals ear as he sleeps.

[kobold]

Hi Fireman,

So what you want is a Spyderco Machete? With teeth?

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"When you go to buy a drill, you don't want a drill. What you want is a hole. Keep sight of the goal".

Not the OP, but yes.

[KITROBASKIN]

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/spy ... e.1409627/

Whale Rescue blade with a large handle.
Still have it. Did not take much to change the point to be… more slicy.

More interesting portion of video starts about 3:30 thinking.

[Bill1170]

Interesting video. I wouldn’t trust that tubular nylon as a sheath, in a fall that blade could cut right through it and into the person who fell. A wooden or kydex scabbard seems safer.

[KITROBASKIN]

Thanks for that observation. I have a backpacking “cutting board” as a liner inside the tubular nylon, folded where the blade is.

I bought a sheet of kydex to make a sheath but it did not work out.

To this day, I carry the Aqua Salt on our nightly dog walks.

Neighbor about a quarter mile away:

[Bill1170]

Thanks for that observation. I have a backpacking “cutting board” as a liner inside the tubular nylon, folded where the blade is.

I bought a sheet of kydex to make a sheath but it did not work out.

To this day, I carry the Aqua Salt on our nightly dog walks.

Neighbor about a quarter mile away:

Cool video! I’ve never used those flexible cutting boards, but that seems like a good idea. I used to live where cougars roam, in the Colorado mountains.

[aicolainen]

Serrated machete.. wow, this thread took off in a totally different direction than I anticipated :D
But then again, it's the Spyderco forums so I should have expected as much. I think maybe the creativity exceeded the market potential on this one :D