kershaw/united cutlery camp axe

[CAlife]

i was planning on getting the kershaw camp axe but i soon found the united cutlery one. it looks exactly identical. does anyone know how they compare to each other? thanks in advance

 

[JWBirch]

I've had a Kershaw and it was a good tool. Even if United can advertise a high carbon steel hatchet head, jamming a weak metal tube into it doesn't make a dependable tool capable of surviving a high stress encounter. These two hatchets are nothing similar. The Kershaw is one piece of forged steel, and mine lasted a year in Afghanistan. I was able destroy two of those Uniteds as a kid (the handle bends in half), before I ever weighed more than 120 lbs. But I could afford them on my allowance when I was 9. People only buy them because they're cheap.

 

[CAlife]

thanks for your help. that clears things up