Antique Rusty Cleaver - Restoration

My friend has found this rusty old cleaver on the steel waste. I really liked the unique look of it with the hook instead of a hole to hang it on the wall. As christmas holidays were just around to happen, I knew I had to pick a project that I have all the material ready in my shop, because everybody was in vacation. So i choose to restore this cleaver. The disassembling was done very quickly, so was the sandblasting. The original handle was held in place with the peened tang. I didn’t really like the shape of the handle and I also didn’t wanted to peen the handle again. Si I decided to make a more ergonomic nice looking handle. That’s why I shortened the tang around 45mm and drilled three 5mm holes in it. That went very well as the tang wasn’t hardened. Next I wanted to make it mirror polished. I startet with the belt sander to grind away all the pitting from the rust. Then it was time for hand sanding. I started with 120 grit, after all the scratches were gone from the belt sander I moved on with 240. Then 400, 1000 and 1200 at the end. I then had a fine enough surface to be able to mirror polish it on the cotton buffing wheel. It took quite some time to do that, but the end result came out absolutely amazing. Moving on to the handle. I decided to make a three part sandwich. I started by making a spacer out of smoked oak. Cut out the shape of the tang and then glue it on to a piece of pear tree wood. Then I was able to file the spacer to the same tapered thickness of the tang. After gluing the other side of the handle on and drilling the holes for the rivets through I could start to rough shape the handle with a rasp. I decided to make three screwable brass rivets. I applied some Loctite on the threads and tighten them together. After that I filed the slotted heads away, flush to the handle. Then it was time to give the handle a final sanding with 120, 240, 400 and 1000 grit and apply linseed oil for the final touch. And after sharpening this job was done completely. I really liked to work on this cleaver. Mirror poilishing was a lot of work and also the work on the handle was quite challenging, but I really liked the end result and I think it speaks for itself. I hope you like my work and the video. Huge thank you to all of my Patreon supporters and specially to: Tonya M Broerman Zack Thompson Adel AlSaffar afreeflyingsoul Yale Baker Gregory Alex McGeorge Alistair Moor Amar.k Anthony Eufemio Bendurion Courtney Maleport David Barker Greg Marston Josh Ledford Joshua Bentley Lambda GPU Workstations Luke Schmick Luke Stone Matt Boothman Mellissa Marcus Monte Gibbs Muzaffer Aksoy Nick Houston Paul Mampilly Pong Lenis potokslow Schultes Thomas Thomas & Jenni Wendel Todd Medbury Tyler Carruth Vickie Bligh Vince Valenti Xavier Carbel Yuri Zapuchlak Aaron Quante Acechadora Ajna Alex Breton Allen Frank Amanda Taylor, Esq Andreas Mimra Andrew Phillips Anthony Adams Arni Bjorgvinsson audi4444player Blake T Brandon Fitzwater Brian Newton Carl Savage Carlo Chad Bryant Chris Simondet Grok Senften Haley McFadden Harper Kim Hunter R. isioviel Jason Koi Jason Tarlov Jeremy Cole Jonas Richartz justin f. Kelly Imgrund Kurt Gazow Marc Cerisier Martin Rønnow Klarlund Mellissa McConnell Michael Bier Mickey Eisenhorn Mike Donaldson Nick Cannon Pasacal Schmikal Philipp Regis Vincent Scott Marshall Sejo Gavisch Sergei Shvartsman Stefan Halter Subramaniam Venkitaraman Suiros Svenja Kuckla Trevor Kam Tucker Ifft Warren G Strand Jr William Wallace 웅록 윤 My camera: Panasonic HC-VX11 I payed a lot of attention on the lighting when filming this video and also the quality of the sound to create an ASMR style video. If you have any questions about the process, machines i’m using or other stuff, just ask me in the comments. I read them all and i try to reply as soon as possible. Sorry for my bad english, it’s not my language. I try my best to improve my technical english. Subscribe for more of my content. I’m uploading videos about mechanical stuff, as new creations and buildings and also restorations. Thank you for watching :-) Building a Huge Rotary Tumbler from Scratch - Homemade Rotary Tumbler „I make a new one“ T-Shirts: My Main Channel: My Second Channel: My Patreon Page: