Originally Posted By: Stretch
If anyone knows who makes the HB Svedish hatchet, I'd appreciate the information.


Your hatchet is most likely made by Hults Bruks, today known as Hultafors Tools:

http://www.hultafors.se/default.asp

I could not find any vendor who is selling HB in the USA, but Hultafors axes are available in Canada and Europe (UK, Germany).

For a similar quality axe or hatchet I recommend Wetterlings (S.A. Wetterlings), they are about 1/2 - 1/3 the price of the Gransfors Bruks ones. Fit and finish not so good as on the GB, but good heat treatment.