I have a couple of #1s that have withstood literally a decade of batonning. One of these got dropped in the ash bucket and spent 2 years outside in the ash pile, through snow and rain etc. 5 years later, it is still being batonned daily when I prepare kindling for the woodstove.
The only application that these can be easily damaged at is hard twisting. I twisted the handle right off a #2-0.
