Editing Machete (section)

== Manufacture ==
[[File:A craftsman sharpening a machete in Lira, Uganda.jpg|thumb|A craftsman sharpening a machete]]
Good machetes rely on the materials used and the shape. In the past, the most famous manufacturer of machetes in [[Latin America]] and the Spanish-speaking [[Caribbean]] was Collins Company of [[Collinsville (Canton, Connecticut)|Collinsville]], [[Connecticut]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/consularservice01jonegoog |first=Chester Lloyd |last=Jones |title=The Consular Service of the United States: Its History and Activities |year=1906 |publisher=[[University of Pennsylvania Press]] |location=Philadelphia |page=[https://archive.org/details/consularservice01jonegoog/page/n86 72]}}</ref> The company was founded as Collins & Company in 1826 by [[Samuel W. Collins]] to make [[axe]]s.<ref>{{cite book |first=Henry J. |last=Kauffman |title=American Axes: A Survey of Their Development and Their Makers |chapter=III: The Nineteenth Century |publisher=Masthof Press |year=1994 |isbn=978-1-883294-12-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x5ZiYCZRdHwC |page=30}}</ref> Its first machetes were sold in 1845<ref>{{cite book |title=Collins' Machetes and Bowies, 1845-1965 |first=Daniel Edward |last=Henry |publisher=Krause Publications |year=1995 |isbn=978-0-87341-403-6 |page=15}}</ref> and became so famous that a machete was called {{lang|es|un collin}}.<ref>{{cite book |first=Oliver |last=La Farge |title=A Pictorial History of the American Indian |url=https://archive.org/details/pictorialhistory00lafa |url-access=registration |publisher=Crown Publishers |year=1956 |page=[https://archive.org/details/pictorialhistory00lafa/page/219 219]}}</ref> In the English-speaking Caribbean, Robert Mole & Sons of Birmingham, England, was long considered the manufacturer of agricultural cutlasses of the best quality. Some Robert Mole blades survive as souvenirs of travellers to Trinidad,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6121694|title=1566: Vintage Trinidad Machete in Leather Sheath : Lot 1566|work=liveauctioneers.com|access-date=10 December 2016}}</ref> Jamaica, and, less commonly, St. Lucia.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}

[[Colombia]] is the largest exporter of machetes worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.laprensa.com.ni/2014/04/12/activos/190612|title=Colombia líder – La Prensa|date=12 April 2014|website=laprensa.com.ni|access-date=1 May 2018|archive-date=14 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140414094016/http://www.laprensa.com.ni/2014/04/12/activos/190612|url-status=dead}}</ref>