In Finland hand tools are all awful. Anything available is just cheap chinese junk.
Recently found a german manufacturer, SHW, that still make forged hand tools like shovels and mattocks in old school designs. Bought a grub hoe and a strassenhacke from them and they are excellent.
We had a number of Fiskars axes on our farm when I grew up and we were never able to break a single one of them (except when someone left them on the ground and a tractor ran over them or something).
Recently found a german manufacturer, SHW, that still make forged hand tools like shovels and mattocks in old school designs. Bought a grub hoe and a strassenhacke from them and they are excellent.