What is the size of a machete blade?
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What is the size of a machete blade?
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What is the size of a machete blade?
Blade lengths, widths, thickness and shapes vary greatly depending upon what the machete is most intended to be used for. Personally, I don’t consider anything with a blade length less than 20″ to be classified as a machete, they are “knives”. EG: Cane knife, beet knife, corn knife, field knife, etc.
Machetes are primarily intended to be used for swing chopping/cutting, though a good machete will function from being tomahawk to planer to scraper.
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Machetes come in various sizes depending on the tasks you will use them for.
Most of mine are around 18″ but a few are 12″ and a couple are 24″.
If you count other similar tools such as parangs or bolos I have a few even shorter, maybe in the 9–10″ range.
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The term “machete” was applied to a specific style knife with a blade normally 18 to 24 inches long, sometimes shorter, and less than 1/8 thick. Unfortunately the name has been applied to almost any large knife that can be used to clear brush. The bolo, parang, golok, cane knife, and like I are not machetes, though they are often referred to as such and included in pictures as “types of machetes”. I disagree with the picture below.
The one labeled “latin” is a machete and the only one in the picture. The others (not shown to scale) are as named.
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