Bowie Machete

The new Cold Steel Bowie Point Machete is quick, fast and lively in the hand, which makes it an outstanding slashing blade and admirable chopper. But its most winning attribute is its clipped point, which makes it an excellent piercing tool. It will penetrate just about any obstacle in its path and will lend itself to knife-like utility jobs when a smaller handier blade is unavailable. It is available in 12 and 18-inch blade lengths and comes complete with a Cordura sheath.

Bowie Machete

Blade steel	1055 Carbon
Rc hardness	60-64
Blade length	18"
Length overall	23 5/8"
Blade thickness	3mm
Weight	23.3 oz
Made in	China

More about 1055 Carbon steel:
1055 steel is right on the border between a medium and a high carbon steel, with a carbon content between 0.50%-0.60% and with manganese between 0.60%-0.90% as the only other component. The carbon content and lean alloy make this a shallow hardening steel with a quenched hardness between Rc 60-64 depending on exact carbon content. These combination of factors make this one of the toughest steels available because, when quenched, it produces a near saturated lathe martensite with no excess carbides, avoiding the brittleness of higher carbon materials. This steel is particularly suited to applications where strength and impact resistance is valued above all other considerations and will produce blades of almost legendary toughness.