Cold Steel Katana Machete Review

A review of Cold Steel's two-handed "katana machete," sort of a hybrid tool that is neither machete nor sword, really. If you'd like to purchase the kydex sheath shown in this video, contact Bob Humelbaugh at http://www.survivalsheath.com and tell him I sent you.

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• Phil Elmore
• cold steel
• katana machete
• sword
• machete
• review

[pyramonitor]

my (relatively cheap) katana would cut halfway through that on the first crossing of swords.

i would cut my yard with that machete though ^_^ it looks BAD !

[PhilElmoreDotCom]

@pyramonitor -- The Japanese katana is a relatively fragile sword. Chances of a cheap one cutting any metal at all are very low.

[KardasSlayerx87]

@PhilElmoreDotCom real katanas are made with raw steel by hand, hand forged, and hand formed.by folding the steel onto itself, they harden the steel tremendously and thus make a super strong steel, then with is, over months they form the blade and add true craftsmanship to it. a true katana is made by a smith that requires years upon years of training, and few are left in the world. and so a real katana would cut through it without the slightest struggle

[PhilElmoreDotCom]

@KardasSlayerx87 -- No, actually, they would not. Swords aren't meant to cut metal, even swords as traditionally made as the unicorns-and-dragons fantasy you seem to have you in your head as embodying the Japanese katana. The katana was crafted as it was because the Japanese were an extremely steel-poor people living in an insular culture -- not because it was the "best sword ever."

[MrYungGunn]

@PhilElmoreDotCom actually katanas are one of the strongest types of swords, I myself have a cheap one and it cuts limds of tree like butter. . . I think u should work on ur sword knowledge

[PhilElmoreDotCom]

@MrYungGunn -- Actually, no, katanas are among the weaker blades. I guarantee that your "cheap katana" is a stainless steel wall hanger and that you're going to hurt yourself sooner or later. The fact that you're cutting tree limbs tells me you have no idea what you're doing. I think you should work on your spelling.

[PhilElmoreDotCom]

@buu678 -- Who are you, "Megamind?" 

[PhilElmoreDotCom]

@z0mg1tsd0ug -- A shotgun would be better.

[jinnd319]

@buu678 The machete is more accurately described as an axe simply because it's used to perform activities that an axe would. Saying a chinese broad sword can do something and that it does do something are two different things. No moron would use a chinese sword to cut down a tree or to clear a forest. People use machetes to do just that. Further more a machete's blade geometry lend it more towards being used as an axe making it a not sword. and again the silent e is just bullshit. admit it.

[jinnd319]

@buu678 Not to be a dick...ok to be a dick a machete is more axe than it is sword. Case and point when the fuck was the last time you cut down a larger tree with a sword. Didn't think so. Also I live in Texas (50miles north of nothern north north mexico) and I don't know anyone dumb enough to say "machet". Sorry about the foul language.

[bobwezy]

Mentioning the book of eli made me definitely have to like this vid. good work

[sniperofbuffalo]

This would make a great anti-zombie weapon