Vintage Axe - Simple Tool Restoration
2021 ж. 29 Мау.
27 953 Рет қаралды
An axe restoration with shocking results. What starts as a cheap axe turns in to something that I'm glad I didn't stuff up. A restoration with some tips and advice if you are thinking about giving anything a try. I cover basic electrolysis, filing, preparing and carving a wooden fawns foot style handle as well as literally uncovering some of the history of this hunk of steel.
I not only enjoy your transformations, but you are a good teacher and introduce products that I have never heard of. Thank you.
Glad you like them!
I like your way of explaining, step-by-step, what you are doing and why. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for the awesome comment. Made my day!
Wow. That was a dangerously loose and gappy area at the bottom of the axe head and handle. Always make sure the handle fills this area.
Thanks for the info. I got a lot of good feedback from people. Looking for a small hatchet to work on in the future, and I reckon I'll be all over it!
Loved the narration. Good work also thanks for throwing some fun facts about the history of the axe.
Thanks for kind words!
beautiful restoration, I liked it👍
Whacks at the cheap axe, turns out its a hults bruks/ plumb colab, reason why I say that is because that resin is called permabond, and plumb usa did have hults bruks make them axes meant for the Australian market, looks like yours is the Tasmanian pattern that many in the USA would love to have, a yankee patern has less swoop at the toe end. Sell that to an axe junkie and you'd be able to fetch upwards of $100 bucks for it. At least just for the head. Id rehaft that on a whiskeyriver 32c if I got my hands on it.
This is way more info than I was able to dig up at the time. Thanks heaps. I ended up giving it to my dad, so he'll put it to good use, until he get too old to swing it anymore.
Nice work! I'll be honest, at first when I heard you were narrating the video I wasn't expecting to enjoy it, but you balanced out sharing useful info that benefits the viewer while not overdoing it. I probably got too used to other restoration channels but your video is more educational than entertainment, which is what I'm looking for. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the feedback! I think a lot of people are used to no voice now so I wanted to try it a bit different. Glad you liked it!
That is some axe - really sturdy and you made it sharp. Also loved you old school work on that handle. Great vid!
Thanks heaps. Glad you enjoyed it!
Very cool and interesting restoration. 👍
Thanks heaps!
Nice and functional...good job 👍was waiting to see that tree fall in the end 🤣🤣👩🔧
Thanks! I got partway in and gave up. A lumber jack I am not.
Check out Felix Immler's "rag trick" for putting an edge on an axe. Experience has proven it to work well and it's kind of fun.
I will look it up!
Really like your style of restoration, leave the character but tastefully fix up the abuse. Awesome!!
Thank you. I think it is what makes things stand out.
Very cool well done.
Thanks, was a fun job.
Amazing design, amazing workmanship. Best wishes 👍👍🤘
Thank you very much!
nice restoration i like this
Thanks heaps.
Very nice job. There were many places most people would have added that annoying music. THANK YOU for NOT putting music in your video. I would much rather hear the narration.
Thanks heaps. I put it in my first ever video, then realised I'm not a fan of it either. Thanks for watching!
And you should always cover your metal jaws, even when clamping metal. Much to learn
I've had aluminium soft jaws on my 'To-Do' list for ages. I'll have to move it up the list.
Nice work. Did you try for a particular angle when filing the edge? I've never used electrolysis for rust removal but it really seems to do well. Cheers!
I kept with angle it basically had, I'd estimate around 25 degrees? And yes, electrolysis is great, I prefer it a lot over a wire brush. Bit messier though.
Very well👍super
Great results 👏 👍🏻. Can you sharpen the edge with a dremel rotary tool?
You could, but I would think keeping it consistent would be hard.
Sweet 👍🏻 👍🏻
Thanks for watching!
This was very interesting, never knew you could get rid of rust that way always thought sanding it off was the only way ( something my grandad did when his tools got rusty) Had a giggle the way you threw the resin away 😂. Loved that you gave us a bit of info on where it was made....nice to know they are still around. Curious about the tree, did you manage to cut it down?
Thank you! I got part way through and gave up. Got cut down by developers a little while after anyways. I always try and find some history but some items are hard to find anything on.
@@RestorationEndeavours I really like the history behind it, not many people do it and I think it's great. Ah let someone else do the hard work...love it lol
Everything was a joy to watch except you swinging that axe. That part was painfull.
I am no lumberjack, that's for sure. Glad you enjoyed the rest!
How old are this Axe Is
It was hard to tell, but possibly from the 80's based on the depth of the makers mark and the resin set head. Thanks for watching!
What is Metho? Being from the USA I don't know.
Denatured alcohol. It's called Methylated Spirits here, but Metho for short.
@@RestorationEndeavours Thanks, great video.
Hults Bruk oldest axe company in the world 1697 .... great find i have a smaller version
They are a nice axe. Mines still holding a good edge. Only let down may be the handle!
That's not how you hang an axe head. That thing will fly off in less than 100 whacks. Maybe 50. You want at least 3/8th's of an inch or a smidge less out the top so it can mushroom out to hold the axe head securely on. I'd highly suggest you go to Bucking Billy Ray's channel. The man is hilarious and a master axe maker. I know of nobody else that builds a better WORK AXE. Not wallhangers for show. But a real world wedge busting demon of an axe. Just thought I'd give my 1 cent. No disrespect intended. You do phenomenal restorations. Have a beautiful day sir. God Bless.
Thanks for the great feedback! I have given this to my father so it will definitely get used hard. I may grab it back and see if I can make some adjustments after checking out a few videos from his channel. He does some great work. Cheers Bro!
That tree looked tough, camphor laurel? How come you have ads on this video when you only have 200 subscribers? i'm the 200th.
Not sure what type of tree it was, but it was dead and dry which made it harder. I shouldn't have ads on my video, so not sure what happened there. I think you need 1000 subs for that.
@@RestorationEndeavours i recon check if this video has a copyright claim on it. I listened to it very carefully again and there is an almost imperceptible radio going on in the background in one scene. The question is whether you should do something about it. i.e let the claimant skim money off your video and KZhead will continue to favor this video in recommendations or take the high ground. In the past I have always jumped on these charlatans, but looking at your stats, perhaps they could be thought of as a type of short term symbiotic scum. (till you can your 1000 subs)
Thanks for the heads up and being #200. No copyright claims or anything in my dashboard so I'm still not sure why you got an ad. Did YT change something recently? I would have thought they would let me know.
El hacha quedo muy bien pero el mango como lo pegaste no es muy seguro que aguante el golpe del hacha que pesa como 2 kilos se va abrir o despegar y en la parte de abajo el mango quedo chico se ve un hueco lo deberias de rellenarlo con resina o una cuñita chica y se veria mucho mejor.
Gracias por la respuesta. Estoy de acuerdo con usted. A pesar de que todavía no se ha movido, me acaban de poner una cuña en allí después de hacer trabajar un poco más con ella. Prefiero la madera a la resina. Lo siento si esto no se tradujo también !!
If your in aus then that's a tasmanian pattern
The shape of the head? That's awesome, thanks for the info! The wood I used for the handle is sometimes called Tasmanian Oak, so that's fitting.
But that poor tree :(
It had it coming..... as in, being removed to put a road in anyway.
@@RestorationEndeavours As long as it had it coming. Good video, I enjoyed watching you match the metal colors.
Wykonanie super,ale dlaczego kaleczyłeś to rosnące drzewo?!!!👎.Zamiast tego narąb drewna do kominka.
Były tam termity i w końcu miały zostać ścięte na ścieżkę. Niestety w środku niewiele. ✌️
@@RestorationEndeavours Rozumiem 👍Pozdrawiam z Polski: kzhead.info/sun/ncZsgqWBmmqAY68/bejne.html
Sorry, but that axe is not sharp - otherwise nice restoration
Probably could have been more so. Practices a bit more and can get them pretty nice now. Cheers,