What can you do with no artistic talent, and a steel blank?
January 4th, 2010 | 
Author: That is the question of the day. An artist might say ” Make art.” A carpenter might say, “Make tools.” A metalworker might say “Lets build something!” A sword smith would say… well, you ca probably guess what a sword smith would say. But today I ran across an interesting blade, that seemed to be what a person would make if they knew they liked sharp edges, had a large steel blank, but just didn’t know what to make:
Hand Forged Crude Jungle Machete
Yep. That’s pretty much it. Here’s how it was probably made. They took a steel blank, and hammered it into a rough, long strip. Then… they sat back and had a beer. That’s it. Yeah. OK, ok, so they probably heat treated/tempered it and as well. But beyond that, wrapping some cordage around the “grip” end of this piece of steel, and grinding a basic edge on it, that was probably pretty much the whole enchilada for this thing.
Hand Forged Crude Jungle Machete - edge
And look at that curved concave tip. What’s up with that? That is about the only aesthetic bit on this blade. I like simplicity and all, but I do have a limit. It’s a pretty high limit, but this thing just kinda tippy-toed over that line… If only just a little. Really, I don’t even know why they bothered with a sheath. It’s not like this blade needs protection from anything.
Maybe it’s to protect the other swords from having to be seen with this one. Not that any sword, (or human for that matter) should judge a book by it’s cover or anything, but you know how some of these high end blades get.
Steel can be so cruel… 0_o
Hand Forged Crude Jungle Machete – [Amazon.com]
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First off XD at you comment about judgmental blades hahaha
This I can really only see buying if it were meant to be added to a home decoration tribal set, say a room filled with plants, small trees, tribal masks, crude spears, and things like that, but then it really wouldn’t fit there either because I doubt those type of natives would even be able to make this sort of thing. So my conclusion about this blade: It was made to sell to stupid rich people. Also I don’t know if you saw the description box on Amazon but even they say it’s for stupid rich people: “While this item can be used as a machete it is intended for collectors and displays. It is a replica of machetes commonly seen in film and television but the not first choice for the outdoorsman.” hahaha
tl;dr this is stupid and meant for people who are as well.
Hey Phyre, where have you been? You haven’t even commented here, miss your posts!
If your just trying to find a new weapon like object to talk about, I think I found a good one. I was trying to find out some info on the dragon tail ninja weapon, and found this.
http://www.amazon.com/Spiked-Dragon-Fantasy-Knife-Stand/dp/B000JV61VC
It looks kind of ridiculous to me.
That does look ridiculous, but if you’re talking about the rope dart from an earlier post you can ask me as I bought it or Matthew Write as he made it and is a great guy and I’m sure he wouldn’t mind answering any questions!