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Cheap Whu-U-loose box cutter ~heh, i bought this from Harbor Freight Tools a couple years ago, and it's basically like a giant butter knife - the blade has no edge whatsoever. one of my quarantine goals has been to get it sharp, so i went at it with a knife sharpener, then a file, and then a grinder and then gave up.
I would imagine that, in a tropical culture, they know a thing or two about sharpening a machete. What is the preferred method of grindage at your local?Cheap Whu-U-loose box cutter ~
Well, I would first consider what, you'll mainly use a machete / parang for. Will you need it for mainly chopping wood, like a small forest axe and cutting limbs or more for vines and grass's? I bought a *parang* (machete) from El Salvador, The Village Parang from Condor knives on Amazon for about $80.00. But then you may not want to spend that much money.
Before I got to the file part I’d give that machate to someone I didn’t like. The rest of Peter’s advice is good. It’s important that the first sharpening leaves both edges equal and at the correct angle. I’ve used a machete almost every day for the last 25 years and I take a new one to one of two old guys to do the first edge and pay them about the same as what the machete costs (400 pesos/20 dollars). Money will spent.
vines and grass, mostly. i probably didn't give it enough time with the file....thanks!
then i've probably already farked mine up...but i'll have another go at it with a closer eye on the edge. thanks!
That's about 300,000+ more people than if he pulled the plug in early january instead of early march
And many of them were flying into the 7 different NYC chinatowns. Nobody wants to say it because it comes off racist, but I think that was a big part of NYC spike. those pics of fridge trucks at morgues and that elmhurst queens hospital (along with a few others) were you guessed it, right near all those dense Chinese neighborhoods, and it quickly made the jump to the poor old folks in the nursing homes and projects. And spread from there to the entire DMA. Not really all that mysterious, just quick dirty and sad, and hopefully soon to burn itself out. My EMT bro’s are all handling it, some got sick, a few old cops and first responders died, nursing homes hit hard of course. sh!t like this has been happening since we first wriggled out of the mudflats into the jungle. We are all just one global village now with unimaginable levels of interconnected ness this world has never known.
I've actually managed to put an edge on one of those Harbor Freight pieces of crap with one of these...
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