Bayou Renaissance Man has an interesting post up this morning about how to choose your edged tools. He says in part
At any rate, read the whole thing, and discuss.
There's more to the post, and he lists some examples of what he'd buy, which I found useful and worth thinking about.In Africa, the lesson I learned from an early age was that tools of this sort are disposable items. Sooner or later (and probably sooner under hard use) you're going to break it, bend it, lose it, or have it stolen (either by other people, or by a jackal or hyena wanting to gnaw on the blood-scented handle of a skinning knife, or something like that). For that reason, 'designer' or name-brand tools were not very common among my contemporaries.
At any rate, read the whole thing, and discuss.