I see you asked this question sometime ago. My wife loves working outside constantly, and wanted a nice little axe. She saw this in AG Russells catalog and decided thats what she wanted. Anyways, we made a little day trip of going to AGs and seeing forumite MAURICE who works there. He took good care of us. Anyways, my wife got her axe.
The head is flat ground. It is one piece of steel. It rained here most of the day, so we didnt geta chance to play (I mean work) with it. Real comfy to hold though. I assume the handle is Zytel and should last a lifetime.