Actually, I would like to know how that handle got broke.
After reading that reply I went out and did everything short of smashing the handle with a sledge or bending it in a vise.
It's sure as heck tougher than any wooden handled hatchet I've ever used.
How in the world did you manage to even damage it, let alone break it?
Let me guess, you were throwing it Davy Crockett style?