I've hacked through around 3 acres of blackberry brambles and alder saplings with this thing so-far (another ~12 acres remaining). Blackberry stalks up to almost 2 inches in diameter...

Just needs the edge preened and sharpened from time to time. Weighted well, and easy to use for hours at a time.

Only drawvack for me was it arrived dull. I would like to be able to rely on things like this straight out of the box. That's not the case with this C.R.K.T. It needs work to be of use at chopping anything. Really dull. THAT does NOT impress me. The item is well made but should come with at least a semi-useable blade edge. It would cut butter, if that's what you want cut.

Solid knife. Used it camping and no issues so far. Will update after more use. Only complaint is the sheath has cord holding it together and it doesn't want to stay tied. It came unraveled / tied the way it was shipped and we haven't found a good way to tie it yet...

used this to clean up my property, being overgrown by small shrubs and vines. this knife made mince meat out of them in 15min. this job takes me 45 min. every year. this sliced everything like butter. love this knife. the largest branches i was chopping were no bigger than 1 and a half inches in diameter. One good swing and it sliced them right off. this came with a good sheath pretty sturdy. this is a great camp knife. You can clean up a small area in no time to set up camp. Oh and I did hit my chain link fence a few times with this and to my surprise not one chip. dam good steal in the tool.

This Ken Onion Machete is perfect, for the intended use. Not a big log splitter, bt rather a thinner, well designed hacker and lightning fast as a fighting machete.
The angle of the handle is great, and makes that sweet spot on the belly just slice like it was butter I was cutting.
I put a fine, sharp edge on it, and it stil has it, but the steel and the black coating seem to hold up very well.
I'd recommend this to anyone loooking for a really good machete! Not a 5 pound sharpened pry bar, but for what it is, it does it well!
UPDATE: After using this for a few months, and lightly at that, I am quite surprised what a piece of junk it is. At first, it seemed really nice, BUT.. in the handle, the holes were so offset, on several, a lanyard would not even go through. To make it worse, when I tried to drill one out, thinking they were ferruls or hollow rivets that went through the tang, they started falling out, and they were actually little grommets just pressed into the rubber handle on each side, which explains why they didn't line up. Garbage. I'm sure, under more rowdy use, they'd start loosening up...
Reminds me of some cheap Chinese crap... oh, wait.. it IS some cheap Chinese crap!
It is really dissappointing to see Columbia River get ahold of a really nice design, and make it really cheap and flaky.
Not the end of the world. I'll use it for what it is, and give it the respect it deserves, which is NOT that of a real Ken Onion knife.