Antique Rusty Meat Cleaver - Restoration

THE RESTORATION PROCESS I started the electrolysis process for rust off the cleaver. After one night all the rust removed from the rusty cleaver. I started grinding with fine sandpaper grit 320 using an angle grinder to grind away all the pitting from the rust. As you can see in the video, as soon as I took the first layer of rust out, the makers mark became visible. and then I did wet sending from 400 up to 2000 with my hand. and then I did some mirror polish of the surface just to make it look ok. the original handle was without a wood handle. I didn’t really like the shape of the handle and I also didn’t want to peen the handle I decided to make a more ergonomic nice looking handle. The tang was like vary fat that’s why I had to grind it. then I had to drill three holes in the handle. It took quite some time to do that, but the end result came out absolutely amazing. And DON’T FORGET TO SEE My Antique Rusty Metal Cutter Restoration: