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What I'm worried about with it is how the blade will function as a machete, because if it doesn't it's just another sharp piece of cut out steel for play. The grip gives me worry but looks cool so eh. I think the point would bend easily too, looks pokey but fragile.
It can be used for utility tasks but wasn't designed with it specifically in mind. The tip speed if fast enough to handle light targets like tall grasses and other lush vegetation, springy canes and suckers, etc. but it can chop heavier woody targets as well--you just need to use the region roughly corresponding with the start of the partial back edge, as that's where the force is best transferred to a static hard target.
To provide some context for the tip choice, a common combo of fall/winter work wear in New England is a quilt-lined Carhartt (or similar) heavy duck canvas jacket over a thick hoodie. Such a combo would turn a cut pretty spectacularly, and so a point designed to penetrate that kind of layered, heavy, loose fabrics was important to me from a design standpoint. You wouldn't want to stick just the first 1cm of the tip into a log and then pry sideways with it, but in repeated hard thrusts into wood no damage has occurred.