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Machete that my dad carved handles for and made a tooled leather sheath to fit.
That sucker is still sharp as can be!

We returned from a couple weeks in Colorado and the blackberry vines in the greenbelt behind us had climbed the retaining wall and had poked through and under our fence a a few places.
I walked along the top of the retaining wall and "convinced" them not to grow any closer to my property.
It was kinda fun but I was hyper aware that one slip or misdirected swing would lead to an ER visit.
I remember Dad used to keep it under the drivers seat of our 1968 Pontiac to dissuade nonsense, and dispatch snakes, he hated snakes.

I think of Crocodile Dundee's words every time I see it- "that's not a knife- THIS is a knife"