So the question is what are you going to use the axe for? All those that have put forward suggestions of quality makers/ brands, do you own such and use them?
I have a cheap fibreglass effort, £15 no make aldi, Chinese mass produced thing that I use for removing bark from trees for trap dyeing. That's all the use it gets. Holds a reasonable edge, but for £15 it does what I want.
I have a splitting maul which I have had for about 10 years, fibreglass shaft which has had some use and taken some pasty, the head is now loose and on occasion you have to wonder if, when you swing it, the head isn'