>>1052034Inexpensive wood handle? Buy an old head from a flea market and rehang it yourself, that's the best ratio of quality to cost you'll find.
As for buying a ready to go axe? If you hadn't specified wood handle, the most 'Mora' of axes that I can think of might be a Fiskars. Some love them, some hate them. I bought their little x7 hatchet on sale and it does what is supposed to and does it pretty well at a lower cost.
For wood handle, the cheapest I can think of are Cold Steel, the Trailboss tends to hang around $25 on Amazon. From reviews, you may or may not get a dud, but people who get a good one seem to find it works well enough. There's also tomahawks from them if you're into that.
Aside from cold steel, you're looking at probably a minimum of about $50 for a wood axe. You can consider Husqvarna, they seem to buy unfinished heads from other swedish axe makers and put a quick edge on them. There's also Condor, from what I've seen, their axe grinds tend to be a bit on the thicker side, and their fit and finish tends to be minorly flawed, but still decent (I'm basing this on their Greenland pattern axe that I have). Comes with a damn good leather sheathe though.
Could also look at Snow and Neily, and Council Tool. Last I heard, at least some of their axes are made in the USA and are of decent quality, but I don't know much about them beyond that.
Beyond that, you're pretty much in the price range of a Hultafors, Wetterlings or Gransfors Bruks all of which are well liked.
