I'm on my first Parang a heavy duku chandong, I'm in Northern Europe and my Gransfors hatchet is now retired! Absolutely brilliant cutting and chopping blade, I'll be ordering more.
Tropical woods are generally harder and denser. Especially woods at coastal areas. Thats why most of malaysian parang made from car lef spring. Flexible yet harder
+ Outdoordynamics Malaysia I am looking forward to seeing your website wake up :) Couple weeks ago, i had a chain to travel to Penang island and one of my Must To Do task is visiting your store. But unfortunately, 2 times finding the address resulted failure on both. The first time, i followed the guide from Google map and went to Bukit Jambul (near Aquatorial hotel). haha :) no store there except mountains and constructions. The second time, i was dare again went to the Pallazia mall, Bukit Gambir. A bit luck this time when i saw a logo of Myparang- That's all, seem to be the whole mall clearanced. i had to came back with a bit discomfort. Finally, i have to hold my expectation to another trip to Malay...
Outdoordynamics Malaysia , What do you recommend for sharpening your blades? Even the best blades will lose their edge after hard use. I believe your steel is a 5160 high carbon steel? An excellent blade steel steel when properly heat treated.
we recommend sharpening stones and freehand sharpening. if it's really blunt, start with 320 grit and ginish off with 500 / 600 grit. that should be sharp enough for rough work. yes, it's 5160 and very true, steel choice is one aspect , the HT is another.
Greetings from Singapore! Nice looking parings there. Seems like the full flat grind on such a thick blade is hindering the batoning. Great testing and very informative!
Yew Seng Cheong thank you for the kind comments. the grind is actually a convex grind. A full flat grind will cause the parang to stick into the wood while chopping. The wood I was batoning was surprisingly very very hard wood, next time will look for pine wood, which almost everyone is familiar with.
+Yew Seng Cheong Greetings from Penang. the parangs have a convex or appleseed grind. a FFG would not hold since we have lots of very hard woods. Bamboo nodes are a well known parang edge killer. The wood we were batoning is from the Acacia tree, very dense and fibrous.
+alicemckin you got that right. it has just the right blend of "spices" . these are the real thing, not a 20,000 pcs factory produced - full tang tool. These were forged , hardened , installed by hand . can't get that kind of value much these days.
hi, thank you for the comment. What do you intend to use the parang for? The standard Duku chandong is the best for general work - cuts grass and chops very well, but if you want to do heavy chopping, best would be to get the heavier ones - the 135 or the Chandong HEAVY. They're all great tools, just that you need to know what you want to use them for.
it is sad to see my fellow Americans don't know the Quality and chopping power of any Malaysian parang. The wood in Malaysia is so much more dense and heaver then the America native species. Any Malaysian parang is the best in the world. no competition!
+Wild Parang mainly because of the rat tail tang and some local blacksmiths who do a cheap job installing them. if well glued in, it WILL hold, pinned or not
+Wild Parang I am from America. Even our hardest wood is easier to cut than the wood in Malaysia. We have some pretty hard Oak and Maple, but the grain structure makes it easier to split. I think most of your wood is a lot like the Australian Eucalyptus. Your blade has to actually cut through a twisted grain, as opposed to simply spreading a straight grain. Am I correct?
you are correct that American oak and Maple are hard but not as heavy/hard as most of the Malaysian woods. That Malaysian wood is very dense heavy and strong, that's why it's so expensive here in the States. not to including shipping rates. Its high quality compared to some American types. To be honest I don't know the proper structure of the grain formation in either wood, but from experience the Parangs I bought in Malaysia cut threw this stuff with almost no effort. If I had a Choice to make a cabin, shelter ( a home) I would prefer Malaysian wood species over the American. and I'm a very proud American. lol :D
+Wild Parang yes our wood can get very hard. we do have a huge range of different wood hardness, from soft - balsa like wood to Belian , a type of iron wood. I would say that most are much denser and harder than what you get in the Americas. Our trees are slow growing hence the harder wood. Their fibers are also not as straight grained, which makes batoning not such an effective way to split wood. It amazes me how some of your wood can be split with just about 3-5 inches of the blade in it. Here you might have to go past the halfway mark and as in the instance of the stump in the above video ( acacia tree ) , it had to go all the way down.
@@outdoordyn Are all the styles rat tail tang? In the Caribbean we use full tang machetes and they take a lot of abuse from chopping, cutting, batoning etc. Not sure how well the rat tail style will hold up. Teh blades themselves look solid but concerned about the handle breaking or coming off with hard use.
@@us24575 no worries there, the blade is pinned to the handle, if it were to work loose, the blade will never come off the handle. even if the blade gets loose, send it back to us for a replacement, they have a lifetime warranty on them. as for handles breaking, we have had only one case where the handle cracked , out of many thousands we have produced since 2014.
Just bought "My Parang 12" Duku Chandong Machete + Nylon Sheath" from www.bladehq.com like the blade very much. Not thrilled about nylon sheath so have to custom made MOLLE compatible leather sheath to fit this parang.
I'm on my first Parang a heavy duku chandong, I'm in Northern Europe and my Gransfors hatchet is now retired! Absolutely brilliant cutting and chopping blade, I'll be ordering more.
Thank you for the great review , and also for confessing your new found love :-)
Makes a difference when you cut at a angle! Shows how well it cuts. Hitting timber straight on just compressors the gibres of the wood.
Tropical woods are generally harder and denser. Especially woods at coastal areas. Thats why most of malaysian parang made from car lef spring. Flexible yet harder
oh kawan-kawan saya, batoning a piece of Malaysian wood is compared to batoning a rock! in America batoning a piece of wood is like batoning a jagung.
WHats a jagung?
@@whynottalklikeapirat jagung is corn in Malay :)
@@outdoordyn You have to wonder who batons cobs of corn in the first place xD
@@whynottalklikeapirat wonder with all this tech some no body has to ask what a word is. Can't you look it up or you don't know how to do that?
Terbaiklah myparang. Buatan tempatan🇲🇾😎
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Outdoordynamics Malaysia
I am looking forward to seeing your website wake up :)
Couple weeks ago, i had a chain to travel to Penang island and one of my Must To Do task is visiting your store. But unfortunately, 2 times finding the address resulted failure on both. The first time, i followed the guide from Google map and went to Bukit Jambul (near Aquatorial hotel). haha :) no store there except mountains and constructions. The second time, i was dare again went to the Pallazia mall, Bukit Gambir. A bit luck this time when i saw a logo of Myparang- That's all, seem to be the whole mall clearanced. i had to came back with a bit discomfort.
Finally, i have to hold my expectation to another trip to Malay...
Outdoordynamics Malaysia , What do you recommend for sharpening your blades? Even the best blades will lose their edge after hard use.
I believe your steel is a 5160 high carbon steel? An excellent blade steel steel when properly heat treated.
we recommend sharpening stones and freehand sharpening. if it's really blunt, start with 320 grit and ginish off with 500 / 600 grit. that should be sharp enough for rough work.
yes, it's 5160 and very true, steel choice is one aspect , the HT is another.
Outdoordynamics Malaysia i sharp my machetes with a river rock, is excelent
Greetings from Singapore! Nice looking parings there. Seems like the full flat grind on such a thick blade is hindering the batoning. Great testing and very informative!
Yew Seng Cheong thank you for the kind comments. the grind is actually a convex grind. A full flat grind will cause the parang to stick into the wood while chopping. The wood I was batoning was surprisingly very very hard wood, next time will look for pine wood, which almost everyone is familiar with.
+Yew Seng Cheong Greetings from Penang. the parangs have a convex or appleseed grind. a FFG would not hold since we have lots of very hard woods. Bamboo nodes are a well known parang edge killer. The wood we were batoning is from the Acacia tree, very dense and fibrous.
+Outdoordynamics Malaysia I agree dude! Sorry for the late reply. Missed your earlier reply somehow. You have some very thick Parangs no doubt.
Can't get much better if you want a beautifully balanced authentic parang imho.
+alicemckin you got that right. it has just the right blend of "spices" . these are the real thing, not a 20,000 pcs factory produced - full tang tool. These were forged , hardened , installed by hand . can't get that kind of value much these days.
just curious, out of the three shown which one would you guys recommend the most?
Also how does the myparang 135 golok compare ?
thanks
hi, thank you for the comment. What do you intend to use the parang for? The standard Duku chandong is the best for general work - cuts grass and chops very well, but if you want to do heavy chopping, best would be to get the heavier ones - the 135 or the Chandong HEAVY. They're all great tools, just that you need to know what you want to use them for.
Outdoordynamics Malaysia Thanks for the response I'm leaning more towards the one 135
I just purchased one. Hope the handle dont break
NO problem zafar yusaf. Go hard on it, if the handle breaks, its covered by a lifetime warranty. send it back and you will get a new one.
Are these full convex grinds?
Thanks
the edge is convex ground. keeps it strong and does not bind in the wood.
it is sad to see my fellow Americans don't know the Quality and chopping power of any Malaysian parang. The wood in Malaysia is so much more dense and heaver then the America native species. Any Malaysian parang is the best in the world. no competition!
+Wild Parang mainly because of the rat tail tang and some local blacksmiths who do a cheap job installing them. if well glued in, it WILL hold, pinned or not
+Wild Parang I am from America. Even our hardest wood is easier to cut than the wood in Malaysia. We have some pretty hard Oak and Maple, but the grain structure makes it easier to split. I think most of your wood is a lot like the Australian Eucalyptus. Your blade has to actually cut through a twisted grain, as opposed to simply spreading a straight grain.
Am I correct?
you are correct that American oak and Maple are hard but not as heavy/hard as most of the Malaysian woods. That Malaysian wood is very dense heavy and strong, that's why it's so expensive here in the States. not to including shipping rates. Its high quality compared to some American types. To be honest I don't know the proper structure of the grain formation in either wood, but from experience the Parangs I bought in Malaysia cut threw this stuff with almost no effort. If I had a Choice to make a cabin, shelter ( a home) I would prefer Malaysian wood species over the American. and I'm a very proud American. lol :D
Outdoordynamics Malaysia Agreed.
+Wild Parang yes our wood can get very hard. we do have a huge range of different wood hardness, from soft - balsa like wood to Belian , a type of iron wood. I would say that most are much denser and harder than what you get in the Americas. Our trees are slow growing hence the harder wood. Their fibers are also not as straight grained, which makes batoning not such an effective way to split wood. It amazes me how some of your wood can be split with just about 3-5 inches of the blade in it. Here you might have to go past the halfway mark and as in the instance of the stump in the above video ( acacia tree ) , it had to go all the way down.
Where do I find a dealer in the United States?
+Big Black Dodge thanks for the question. you can search here - www.myparang.com/buying-parangs-us/ or do a google search as the list is not complete.
Terbaik boy... thumbs up!
Good video
If these become available ...I want one !
yes, they are available. visit www.outdoordynamics.com.my or www.myparang.com
+flashdamingo yes they are available now - www.myparang.com/where-to-buy-my-parang/
Is it full tang?
No sir, it is a rat tail tang construction , just how they are supposed to be
@@outdoordyn Are all the styles rat tail tang? In the Caribbean we use full tang machetes and they take a lot of abuse from chopping, cutting, batoning etc. Not sure how well the rat tail style will hold up. Teh blades themselves look solid but concerned about the handle breaking or coming off with hard use.
@@us24575 no worries there, the blade is pinned to the handle, if it were to work loose, the blade will never come off the handle. even if the blade gets loose, send it back to us for a replacement, they have a lifetime warranty on them.
as for handles breaking, we have had only one case where the handle cracked , out of many thousands we have produced since 2014.
@@outdoordyn That's good feedback. Thanks.
You don't split tropical hardwood. It is suitable for constructing structures not, as a firewood.
Very nice parangs =)
Thanks Marcus!
sold to southamerica?
yes of course. drop us an email - info at outdoordynamics.com.my
found out you can get this awesome parang at blade HQ, dang it I ordered mine through amazon, from Malaysia, now I got to wait 3 month for it, bummer
+Doe Insixiengmay has the parang you purchased been behaving well? you can also buy them from these dealers - www.myparang.com/where-to-buy-my-parang/
and Which is best golok or parang?
They are all the best. depends on what you want to use it for
Outdoordynamics Malaysia Tell me an example.
The best chopper wold be the golok 135 , but it's heavy for finer work. for those who are weight conscious, they can opt for the 10" chandong
Outdoordynamics Malaysia and how efficient the golok 125, because that is the I liked most
Chopping wise, the 125 comes second tot he 135. you can't go wrong with it.
kek nogori sembilan takdo jual ko..kok nak poie perak jauh bona..kok ado tukang jual kek sini a sonang nk poie tengok...den minat ngn parang bulan..
bos,Fb myparang ada jual boleh berhubungan terus dengan jual d kawasan2 terdekat.
Just bought "My Parang 12" Duku Chandong Machete + Nylon Sheath" from www.bladehq.com like the blade very much. Not thrilled about nylon sheath so have to custom made MOLLE compatible leather sheath to fit this parang.
+SFBay55555 great ! thanks for the support. Yes, the sheath is not the best in the world, but it works. we will be looking at upgrading the sheath.