Hi everyone,
just stumbled across this coLAB site, me likes!
Anyway, I’m not one who has a lot of patience or stamina when it comes to DIY Projects nor do I have an enterpreneurial mind, so I’m giving this idea to anyone who likes it:
Being a lightweight enthusiast, I don’t understand why I’d need a separate axe, machete and saw. Think like the Swiss - turn the three into one big Swiss army knife! I was thinking of a somewhat stronger machete blade (similar width to an axe), with a saw on it’s back, or a lighter axe with a longer blade, again with a saw on its back.
Maybe most trekkers don’t need this (especially since you either need an axe OR a machete), but I find the hybrid a better solution because
1) I’d often like some properties of the other cutting instrument (when using a machete, I’d sometimes like the strength of the axe, using the axe, I’d sometimes like the long blade for clearing away vegetation etc.), yet I am not prepared to carry all separate pieces of equipment
2) Most people carrying an axe/machete will have some kind of saw with them anyway, so why the extra weight? I only carry a saw blade due to weight(which I then turn into a saw, taking some time and effort which I could save this way).
3) Apart from saving weight and space, it will make working with wood a little easier, as I have all tools in one hand and can e.g. brush off surrounding vegetation, cut down a tree, saw it into bits and chop these all without putting my one tool down.
I think this could work if a real engineer sat down and thought about this for a while because unlike so many All-in-One gizmos flooding the market nowadays it doesn’t have a thousand working parts to go wrong. it’s basically a 30-50cm long piece of steel (carbon steel?), made heavier at one end (handle on the opposite end), sharpened on one side and a saw shape cut into the other side. You could go all fancy shedding some extra grams by drilling holes into the construction and giving it that ridiculous commando look, but that would attract the wrong customers is my guess (My best buying advice is still: if it looks like rambo would use it and has “survival” written on it, leave it on the shelf for the kids 
One extra would be of advantage though, namely an additional grip (either at the base of the existing grip or carved into the steel at the tip of my “AXEchete”) allowing me to get a better grip whilst using the saw i.e. the fist should be at 90 degrees to the sawing motion, not parallel. This would need a graph, but I’m lazy. Just imagine a typical one hand saw grip and think of how you could add it to the AXEchete.
Hope someone likes the idea and makes millions with it, affording supercars, champagne, cigars, women(/men)... thanx to a humble 10min post
Seriously though, if you do manage to get this or something similar market ready - pls @ me .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) - I SERIOUSLY WANT THIS AXEchete!
