Condor Tool & Knife traces its lineage to Gebr. Weyersberg, founded in Solingen, Germany in 1787, which opened the Imacasa factory in Santa Ana, El Salvador in 1964. Condor launched in 2004 to bring that factory's knives and tools to North America and Europe, and Imacasa now runs around the clock as one of the largest machete makers in the world. The formula is honest high carbon steel, hand finished blades, and welted leather sheaths that outclass everything else at the price.
Condor's bushcraft knives are the default pick for a woods kit without custom knife money. The Bushlore pairs a 1075 blade with walnut or Micarta scales, the Kephart stays true to Horace Kephart's woodcraft pattern, and the Swamp Romper and Woodlaw cover the rest of camp work. Goran Mihajlovic's Kambo Puukko brings a scandi grind to the puukko pattern, and the Terrasaur and Bushglider run 1095 in molded handles.
This is the factory's home turf. The El Salvador Machete is the genuine Latin pattern made in the country it is named for, and the Terrachete grinds its edge thicker near the tip for rock strikes and thinner near the handle for carving. The Pack Golok, Bushcraft Parang, Jungolo, and Wild Brush Kukri adapt Southeast Asian and Nepalese chopping patterns to modern handles. Most run 1075 carbon steel, which trades a little edge retention for the toughness a chopper needs and touches up with a file in the field. The rest of our machetes and kukris sit one click away.
The K-Night series dresses a bowie, a machete, a hatchet, the Panabas, and the 14C28N Scullery camp and kitchen knife in black canvas Micarta and blasted satin finishes. The Scout Hatchet rides an American hickory handle alongside the rest of our axes, and the Hudson Bay Knife swings an 8.5 inch blade on 3/16 inch stock.
Want to put your own handle on a proven pattern? Condor sells the Bushlore, Kephart, and Woodlaw as bare 1075 blade blanks. Then there's the gear nobody else would greenlight: the Wallace Scottish Sword, the Piranha Harpoon, and the Exoskeleton Slingshot that Joe Flowers designed around his own small game hunting in the Amazon. Condor builds what it finds interesting, and the catalog is better for it.