If you just want a nice knife I would second the Bark River Aurora for the reasons MSA mentioned.
I would agree that knives are poor tools for firewood processing. A Fiskars or Gerber hatchet depending on weight requirements and a small hand plane with disposable blades will get you much further.
Fiskars lack soul compared to the Nordic hatchets/axes mentioned, but then again so do Glocks. Sometimes utility has a quality all its own.