>>1053366I like this kind of stuff. It's a good experience and you feel more self reliant for it. something satisfying and personal about the whole process.
If OP wants to buy, when I was looking into things this was my axe of choice (pic). Gransfors is certainly the benchmark but this ended up edging it out in what I had read about them. I'm not a big les stroud fan even being canadian but I think the design is great for an outdoorsmans uses.