Cold Steel Latin D-Guard Machete 18″

If you were suddenly castaway on a desert island or stranded in the wilderness or a jungle, what’s the one tool you would want at your side? The answer is a good machete. You see the machete, over the last three centuries, has proven to be the ultimate outdoor and survival tool. It will cut, chop, slash, hack, split, scrape, scoop, hammer, dig, crush, carve, whittle, crack or smash just about anything you can put in front of it. And when you look at its meager cost, it’s got to be one of the best bargains for hard earned cash in the world. In fact it’s so inexpensive and useful that even the poorest in South America or tribesman in Africa invariably owns one and counts on it as one of his most precious possessions. This blade is made out of 65Mn Carbon Steel with a tough spring temper and surfaced with a black, baked-on anti-rust finish. Each Cold Steel machete comes with a good utility edge which, with just a little work, can be made hair shaving sharp. The tough, Polypropylene handles of this machete include a D-guard designed to provide a comfortable secure grip, and they are rugged enough to resist chipping, cracking or breaking, so they last practically forever. It also provides much safer handling protecting your fingers from harm.