ANTIQUE RUSTY CLEAVER RESTORATION!

It's time for another rusty restoration! We love restoring old, rusty tools that collect dust in workshops or sell at vintage or antique sales. We created a KZhead channel doing just that!
For our third video, we’re restoring a vintage Sharp Cutter cleaver from the 1940s made by the Royal Brand Cutlery Company. The cleaver was bent, dented, welded, missing half its handle and beyond rusted. The perfect antique cleaver for our restoration!
Time to RESTORE THE CLEAVER!
This was our process...
After removing the remaining handle, we soaked the cleaver in Metal Rescue Rust Removal BATH for 24 hours. That stuff works like a charm! The next day the cleaver was rust free and ready for some restoring. First we used an angle grinder with a sanding flap disk to clean up the cleaver. Our main focus was removing the hideous weld. At some point someone must have broken the cleaver head from the handle. This was their attempt to fix it. While the weld was holding the knife together, it definitely could be cleaned up.
Next we outlined where the cleaver’s shape would be altered. This was to remove dented and broken pieces of the knife, while also shaping it towards the aesthetic we wanted to create. We used a belt sander to remove the metal and create the new shape. Next we sanded the cleaver with wet sandpaper to 1,000 grit and polished it to a mirror finish with the buffer wheel.
After the work on the cleaver was finished, we turned our focus to the handle. We used Madagascar Rosewood for the handle and stainless steel for the bolster and butt. We traced the new design onto the wood and steel. We cut the wood handle with a bandsaw and used an angle grinder with a cutting wheel for the steel. Before we epoxied the handle, we dimpled the cleaver tang, wood and steel using a drill press to help the epoxy hold. After glueing it all together, we let it sit for 24 hours.
After the cleaver handle was dry, we used the drill press to cut holes for two stainless steel rivets. After taping the rivets into the handle, we used a grinding wheel to rough shape the steel and wood to fit the knife tang. We took off a lot of metal and were constantly pausing to wet down the steel to keep it cool. The epoxy has a melting point of 500’F, but we didn’t want to risk the knife falling apart. After grinding the handle into a rough shape, we further formed the handle with the belt sander. We moved from a 220 grit belt up to 800 grit belt.
After polishing the handle we sharpened the blade by hand using our wet stones. While the knife was never meant to be a sushi knife, it is surprisingly sharp and quite heavy. It’s a perfect cleaver for shopping into thick, hard food. We did our shop version of Fruit Ninja and chopped through every fruit we could get our hands on. Handled them all like a champ.
This vintage cleaver restoration project was a ton of fun and we’re really excited to create more videos just like this one. So please, share this video and subscribe to our channel for more awesome content from the Rust Rangers!
THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED BY METAL RESCUE ® RUST REMOVER BATH
We only use Metal Rescue Rust Remove BATH to remove rust for our projects. It is a clean and safe water-based soak that removes rust from iron and steel without the use of chemicals or acids. It typically works in under 24 hours with no scrubbing, dipping, brushing or other agitation required Metal Rescue is “safe on everything except rust,” because while it removes rust from metal it does not harm other materials such as wood, glass, rubber, vinyl or plastic. It is safe enough you can put your hands in it! Metal Rescue BATH is designed to be used as a bath or soak and works like magic. We highly recommend Metal Rescue Rust Remove BATH for all your restoration projects.
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