Tools That Last: A Short Funeral Rite
It has no brand, no warranty, and a handle worn into the exact shape of a hand that is gone. It outlived three 'professional' forks with fiberglass shafts.
Steel, ash, and a little oil is the whole formula. The new tools are engineered to be replaced; the old ones were engineered to be repaired. I know which side of that trade I would like to be on.