Thursday, March 21, 2013

One of These Is Not Like the Other

In price anyway:

SMKW Condor Golok Machete $49.99

Garrett Wade Personal Machete $79.99

The difference?  Garrett Wade markets to gray-ponytails and hipsters.  SMKW markets to rednecks and hillbillies. 

4 comments:

  1. But the Garrett Wade is a "Personal Machete"

    Personal Machete
    Has gorgeous balance
    No one here can take their eyes off this one

    It's been a while. I used to get the Garrett Wade catalog back when I listened to NPR before I converted to Redneck.

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  2. I'm being really unfair to Garrett Wade and their customers because I don't see spokeshaves, draw knives, and decent braces much at Home Depot. GW's machete-buying demographic probably isn't very large. They won't make it up in volume.

    In fact the reason I happened to recognize the Condor is because I was on there looking at the draw knives and wondering how hard it would be to make one out of an old mower blade. A little heat, hammering and grinding -- it doesn't seem all that complicated.

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  3. Come on over and you can borrow the forge.

    Reminds me of my only machete joke.

    What's the most dangerous animal in the jungle?

    A gringo with a machete.

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  4. Indeed, our pastor's grandson was on a mission trip a few years back -- he's about 18 now -- probably 14 or 15 at the time. Hacking through some where in Central America, he sliced open his leg. He missed the big vessels, but bled quite a bit and, of course, they were worried about infections. He survived and started at Baylor this year.

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