I'm firmly in the Cheap camp for wood gloves. I've tried pretty heavy gloves from work & they still wear through.
When running a saw I will use leather gloves or whatever really, as long as it gives good grip & feel.
For splitting & stacking I use something like these from HD (mine are orange, but I don't see them in the website now) . Nitrile coated, not rubber/latex because I can't stand super grippy latex for splitting. I like my hand to slide on the axe handle like bare skin or leather. Nitrile does this pretty well.
For less than $2 a pair, gloves like these fit pretty good and last about as long as decent leather before getting holes in the fingers. Medium weight.
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