The claim about the Nigerian Armed Forces strikes me as rather improbable. At Talk:Nigeria I have asked if anyone can confirm or deny it. Securiger 00:38, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
OK, I have moved this from the article:
- The Nigerian Armed Forces have been reviewing the possibility of using the Machete as their standard weapon in their new conscript army of 5,000,000 troops.
I can find no support for it anywhere, it sounds like someone denigrating Nigeria (which actually has a pretty well equipped army for Equatorial Africa), and this, if true, would represent a nearly ten-fold increase in the size of the Army. In short, I think it's bogus. Securiger 17:14, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
use on wood
the lack of a primary grind makes the machete much less effective on woody vegetation
I've seen a man convert a large dry tree branch to an almost perfectly squared block of wook with a well sharpened blade...
The standard I know is, if you can shave with it, it's sharp enough Guettarda 22:08, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)