>>558143I bought one from kukri house about 18 months ago and a mate bought the same style as you're looking at, they've been good fun. A couple of things, they're impossible to break but this is because they're thick, seriously thick, the weight of a small hatchet thick so don't expect it to function too well as a machete unless you're Terry Crews. On the upside this makes them excellent choppers and they come with a heavily convexed edge from the factory which is unusual to sharpen and best done with a strip of wet and dry or emry in my experience, it's a bit like sharpening an axe head, also the sheath, you need to be careful sheathing it, friend poked a nick into the inside of his sheath being careless and now the blade wants to catch there and if he's not careful he's going to poke a hole through it.
Suitable replacement to hatchet and machete? Hatchet yes, it's not 100% as capable as a hatchet in splitting logs but it's not a long way off, I've got a Hults Bruks 1 1/2lb hatchet and I'd say it's(The HB) definitely better in cutting across the grain on hard wood because it takes more of the shock but when splitting with the grain there's not a lot in it. On the upside it's quite handy to use as a drawknife.
As a replacement to the machete, no, they're just too heavy, generally well over 1lb, an 18" machete from say Ontario or Tramontina is slightly lighter and gives you a lot more reach.
Essentially it's a jack of all trades, master of none type tool and if you like them get one, it's not going to let you down. If you don't like them get a cheap hatchet, it won't let you down either, I alternate between mine. One thing I will say though is I have dressed rabbits with a kukri and it's baby knife, it's not ideal but it works and it's something I haven't even attempted with a hatchet.
>My KH Kukri after I bought it 
