Just wanted to give my take on cold steel two handed machete well they are great when I go to the woods I always have a Zippo a trapper pocket knife a slingshot and a two handed machete it holds a edge I cut swamp cabbage as a side job most guys that cut use a estwing ax and 10 head of cabbage take the average guy most the days to cut I have cut 38 in 4 hours with the cold steel before and after picture the last pictures are what it looks like when cut up and a jar of pickled swamp cabbage.