Can’t recommend this Even for the price, you would be better off looking for another axe. I recently took this on a two week hike in the Rockies. I found two flaws with this axe. The first one is that the axe head and handle became loose after a short time. I had to apply duct tape to it to ensure it didn’t come off. The second and more important one is that this axe is terrible at chopping. It’s pretty dull when you receive it so I spent a good bit of time sharpening it. Even with it sharped, I had a…

quality control problem Ordered this axe after reading favorable reviews, here and elsewhere. My axe arrived warped. The back side (hammer-side) of the axe is useless because it bends to form a triangle (bit hard to explain), as if part of it melted away. The axe was also warped from the back hammer-side to the front blade-side (not from top edge to the bottom edge). It took me two hours of filing and stone work to get to a reasonable shape for chopping. Hammer-side is still useless — that can’t be fixed. I…