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Bee, I had never heard of that company, so I Googled GRANSFORS+BRUKS+OPINIONS. Their equipment comes highly recommended. I didn't keep going long enough to find anything about their CS, but here's one opinion:

"Gransfors Bruks is a Swedish company that is reputed by some to make the best axes in the world today. Again, I do not own a Gransfors Bruks tool, but there is something to be said for a company that has the smith stamp his personal initials on every tool he makes, where they will remain, always and forever."

Sometimes small and obscure is better than huge and mindless. It would be cheap enough to order what you want, and then come back and tell us all about them, customer service and all. Guinea pigs are valuable creatures.

Sue


I have one of their axes and it is great...
Not even in the same league as the stuff you get in the hardware store... Maybe not even the same planet...
The come profiles for what they are sold for though...
I have the Forest Axe, and it is NOT profiled for felling, but for limbing, which is the right thing to do for an axe of this size...
That is not to say that you CANNOT fell a tree with it(in fact, it will STILL work better than the THINGS you get in the hardware store), but that it is optimized for taking the limbs off of trees(which is mostly all you SHOULD be doing with an axe that you carry with you...).
They come sharper than MOST knives that you buy, and you can make them 'shaving' sharp in just a minute or two if you want to... Contrary to what most people think(these days anyway), the sharper an axe(or knife) is, the longer the edge will last...