Stocking Wholesale Machetes: A Dealer's Guide

Machetes are an easy category to overlook and an easy one to sell. They move through more channels than most big blades, and a hand-forged version stands out immediately next to the imported hardware-store rack. Here is how to stock wholesale machetes.

Working machetes vs machete-Bowies

A working machete is long, broad and light enough to swing all day for clearing brush and camp chores. A machete-Bowie is heavier and more knife-shaped, built as much for display and the big-blade buyer as for work. Both sell, and they sell to different customers, so a mixed lot covers more of your floor.

Steel and build

The blade has to take repeated impact without bending or taking a set, so a proper heat treat matters more here than on almost any other blade. We forge machetes full-tang in high-carbon and Damascus steel, with handles fitted to stay put under a wet, hard grip.

Who buys them

Outdoor and camping shops, farm-and-ranch stores, survival and prepper retailers, and gift and gun-show buyers for the larger machete-Bowies. It is a broad, year-round category, not a seasonal one.

Why hand-forged and made in the USA

The imported machete is a commodity with a race-to-the-bottom price. A hand-forged, made-in-the-USA machete is a real tool with a real edge, and the machete-Bowie versions photograph and display in a way that sells themselves. Louis Martin forges wholesale machetes and machete-Bowies, available to dealers in bulk at a 10-piece minimum. See the wholesale machete category or apply for a dealer account.