>>676112To find out the truth you need to look beyond the questionable opinions of /out. You need to be taught things such as how a well hung axe looks like, what type of steel types and quality is best, what type of handle shape and size, what type of job you are doing (felling, splitting, limbing, all in one?) and which head shape to choose that's best for the job. It takes 30 minutes to proactively find your own answers, this is just lazy and you will never get the anything but opinion. I personally went for a German company named Helko. They provide an aesthetic line similar to Gransfors... I think most companies do, so really Gransfors is special from other companies only in its marketing and popularity. Because I enjoy woodworking, and spend a lot of time camping, I chose a boy's axe... in between a hatchet and a big axe. The head is sharp and bites deep for moderate felling, I can shift my grip upwards to de-limb, and back has a deep taper that makes it good for splitting logs. (my wife carries the tomahawk just in case we need to make accurate cuts in logs and tinder gathering)
