Here I @myart will explain how to make a tool machete. Making a machete in the area where I live is the Village Keude Cunda Cunda District North Aceh regency is a very common thing to do and become a livelihood. So do not be surprised if many people from various regions who deliberately came to buy a machete in my village. Here I explain the tools, materials, and how to manufacture a blade from a variety of sources.
1. Iron or steel, as the main ingredient of making a machete.
2. Paron as base forging, in the form of iron weighing about 50-60 kg.
3. Puputan is used to make the wind that is very necessary to maintain the embers, the way it works the same as the wind pump. This tool is made of a fairly long board.
4. Capit used to clamp or take material that is still burning machete. This tool looks like a pliers.
5. Chisel used to split and cut the material that will be used as machete. This tool is made of steel.
6. The hammer, used to flatten or thicken the iron and the other one to stroke the chisel.
7. Stingy, used to smooth the perfect machete nearing completion.
8. The fireworks, as the name implies, are used for picking coals. This tool is made of iron that is about 50 cm long end curved, while the other end is given a handle made of wood.
9. Tubs, used to cool the machete by dipping iron or steel being worked on into a machete. This tool is made from used cut, with a height of approximately 50 cm.
10. Broom stick, used to clean the forging place (placemat) from iron or steel ruins.
11. Charcoal, serves as fuel.
12. Grindstones, used to smooth and simultaneously to make machetes become sharp.
13. Kliwaan is used to straighten the machete blade.
14. The broom of fire is used to sweep or collect scattered charcoal.
First iron is heated for about 10 minutes on the embers until red, lifted with a claw, forged and then plated or dipped into a water bath. The second stage of iron cutting will be used as a machete. The third stage of cleavage, but the iron pieces had been heated first until a new smoldering split by putting it on the paroon and then split with a chisel. The fourth stage of the cleaver formation is kept preheated while flattened. The fifth stage, smoothing with a miser on a device called cetok. The sixth stage, gilding with dipped into a water bath. The seventh stage, sharpening by rubbing the machetes on the grindstone to sharp. Eighth stage, making a ring like a ring that is useful to strengthen the handle. Usually made of iron by means of straight iron burned and then formed circular like a ring. The last stage, the manufacture of the handle and the seragamya made of wood.
If you look at the process is not so different from the process of making machetes in other areas, but the Taraju Gym is guaranteed quality, because the process of making it still traditional. In addition the materials used are selected from iron or steel qualities such as car steels or from per car. And of course the manufacture using human power so as to generate jobs and opportunities for entrepreneurship other than that serangkanya can be ordered as desired, such as from ordinary wood, carved wood, cow or goat skin, or from animal horns. Problem sharpness do not worry ..
Well, that's the tools, materials, and how to make a machete in the village of Keude Cunda. May be useful....
Thanks.