Ok so this has probably been asked about a million and a half times before but this time it's slightly different I guess. So, I'm wanting to buy myself an axe. I'll be using it for some carving and splitting. I don't think I'll be chopping any trees down but I'll be splitting firewood. I got myself a crook knife and so I want to get started with axes and maybe eventually make a spoon or kuksa (how do you pronounce kuksa by the way?) too. The different part is that I'm buying a bunch of other stuff from woodlore so I figured I might as well get my axe from there too but the axe I had finally decided on was out of stock. I'm trying to decide between the gransfors wildlife hatchet and the small forest axe. The small forest axe was my first choice but then I read some posts where people seemed to prefer the wildlife and it sounded more like the tool for me but now it's out of stock. The question is: Should I just wait and buy the wildlife hatchet whenever it does get back in stock or should I just go ahead and get the small forest axe because it might be more useful or equally useful and I could get it right away? I was planning on ordering in three days and I still am so I'll either be getting the small forest axe with my order or ordering everything else and then buying the wildlife later which kinda sucks as I want to get started as soon as possible and I'll have to pay an extra shipping fee. Your thoughts please!
