Granfors is good enough and readily available. Lesser known brands are often as good and sometimes just a tad cheaper or better suited for less common use but take enough effort to find and buy that counting time there is no saving. Semi and full custom are often a little better for a lot more money but may fall into the carry a lot and use a little category. Reading the old books on using an ax or more recently but not recent such as Game and the Gunner by Albert Pulling, Pierre Pulling who ended his career at Idaho State, I agree that it can be nice to make an ax hang to suit, all the more so in a double bit where one edge may be tad sharper and hung in while the other edge is a little less liable to chip. But folks at that level aren't asking at a forum like this one.
