Antique Firefighter Axe - Restoration

In this video I’m going to restore an antique firefighter axe. I’ve always wanted to restore an axe since the beginning of my channel, but I’ve never found a cool looking one. But then, all of a sudden I came across this beautifully designed firefighter axe and knew immediately that this will be the one. I’ve found it at my friends place, he took it home from the steel waste and sold it to me for $20. I really love the design of those firefighter axes with the two keys that secure the axe head. To secure the keys there’s always a pin/rivet going through the handle. This axe was very special, because the manufacturer really payed attention to grind the rivets flush and let them completely dissappeared. Top quality I’d say. As always, the axe head is also secured with a regular wedge in the handle. The axe head had really deep holes in it. I guess it was once used as a hammer. Those holes were so deep that I would’ve lost way too much material in thickness if I’d grind them away. So the only way to get rid of them was to close them with welding. That was reason enough for me to try TIG welding for the first time and it worked absolutely perfect. To honor the high quality of this axe I decided to etch the name ’Victoria’ back on the axe head. I used a classic font and placed it on the upper side of the back. Both keys were really out of shape and didn’t had similar size. After bending them back straight I welded up material and grinded, filed and sanded them to matching measurements. The handle was far gone and way beyond restoration. The wood was very rotten and had many holes in it. Therfore I only had one option and that was to make a new one. It was quite tricky to get it to the right shape and size, but I eventually got it done. Overall I’m very happy how this axe turned out. I really like the contrast of the bright shining polished parts with the engraving to the dark wooden handle. Allthough I have to admit that I wish the handle was a little bit brighter. It still looks nice in my opinion and very happy to add this beautiful axe to my restored items collection. 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 Charlie Watts Carsten Bauer Yale Baker Gregory Alex McGeorge Alistair Moor Amar.k Anthony Eufemio Arthur Bendurion Br. Michael-Francis Smith, OSB Chris walter David Barker flex Haitham Al Zir Huard de la Marre Jean Ceppi Josh Ledford Josh Wasserman Joshua Bentley Kevin Hurwitz Lambda GPU Workstations Leo Louie Carboni Marius Costan Matt Boothman Mellissa Marcus Monte Gibbs Nick Houston NoLoneSurvivor Official TopTen Pong Lenis potokslow StevenVR Tyler Carruth Vickie Bligh Vince Valenti Xavier Carbel Yuri Zapuchlak Alex Bindon Alex Breton Alipasha Sadri Amanda Taylor, Esq Andreas Mimra Andrew Egerton Andrew Phillips Arni Bjorgvinsson audi4444player Blake T Bonnie Williamson Brian Hoerl Chad Bryant Chris Brentano Crystal Cash Daniel Trejo Daniel Varga Danielle Roberts Dave Hardware Embiss Ethereals flowercrownbouncer Frankie DeSantis Geoffroy Grant Daniel Grok Senften Haley McFadden Hunter R. Jack Curry Jason Koi Jeremy Cole John menefee Joël Franusic justin f. Karl R Kelly Imgrund Ken Rosso Kurt Gazow Landon Burgener Marc Cerisier Marc Staedelin Marina Malloy Mellissa McConnell Michael Michael Lamp Mike Donaldson Noah Schwarz Norm Haldorson (Bad Wolf) Pasacal Schmikal Pelec Peter Cyprian Ray Yeager Regis Vincent Rev. Gina Pond Sarah Langlais Scott Marshall Sergei Shvartsman Steven Michalcewicz Suiros Svenja Kuckla Tim Holt Trevor Kam Tucker Ifft 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 :-) „I make a new one“ T-Shirts: My Main Channel: My Second Channel: My Patreon Page: