Reviews & Ratings for Kershaw Camp 14 in Machete — 1 review — Page 1

The Ontario Knife machete is a basic one with the blade around 13" long. I acquired it sometime around the late 2000's as it was stuck in the backside of a tree at a campground and left there. So I pulled it out and put it in my truck. That machete is a perfect little machete for chopping little branches of 1" or less in a quick shallow angle swing. Shallow as in probably 20-25 degrees off the plane of the branch, that way the branch doesn't deflect and your force goes into the cut. It was a flawless machete and would have been still if I hadn't lent it to a friend to cut some pine branches off the trees near his house. I don't think he ever used a machete before (I had one when I was 10 or so, probably 18" and cheap) so I think he twisted when hitting and he took two chunks out of the blade right next to each other maybe 1/4" deep. I fixed it with a flap wheel on an angle grinder and never had anything else happen to it from my use.

I also keep a Silky Big Boy saw in the truck as well as an Estwing hatchet. Machete for little branches, hatchet for 1"-2" stuff and Silky for 2"-5" and often I'll bring along a DeWalt 20v chainsaw for campfire wood so that might get used.

Why am I telling you this?

That is the kind of stuff I use a machete for and that is how it fits in with the other tools I carry. The Ontario Knife one is quite a bit lighter but that makes it very flickable for small brush/branches but less useful for bigger stuff.

This Kershaw is quite a bit heav...
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