"Big John" machete

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The "Big John" combat machete, designed by Gil Hibben.

The "Big John" combat machete is a prototype machete designed by fantasy knife artist Gil Hibben that combined the Rambo III Knife design with a machete shape.

Design

It featured a laminated wood handle, handle and blade guards, a blood sight and a serrated top for cutting barbed wire. The fancy machete was ditched in favor of a cruder, last minute machete made out of a single bar of D2 carbon steel. Because the movie knife was nearly half an inch thick, had a full tang, and was sharpened to a flat grind, it proved to be more practical than the "Big John" knife, which was more made for looks. However, the design got such a positive response that it is the only prototype that Gil Hibben actively produces for sale on his website. Like the Rambo III movie knife, the handle is made of Macassar ebony. The blade itself is larger than a two-liter bottle, measuring 11 5/8 inches long. The blade is 1/4 of an inch thick and the overall knife is 17 1/4 inches long. It can be bought for around 1,900 dollars on Gil Hibben's website under the name "Big John", but only