Restoration of Very TIRED and Rusty AXE

Hello folks! Today I will show you the restoration of a very “tired axe“. It’s hard to imagine how many times it was sharpened and used. But I’ll give it a second chance and he’ll be as good as new! Well, let’s start the restoration. The first duty I did was to remove the old piece of the axe handle, the wire and the rusty wedge. I placed the axe in a rust remover, after cleaning I placed the axe in warm water with soda to neutralize the acid. This axe turned out to have no cutting edge left at all. And I decided to forge a new one. To do this, I cut off the rest of the cutting edge from the axe and welded a piece of file with the help of a welding machine. Then I went to my friend’s workshop where I forged a new cutting edge for the axe, carried out the normalization process three times and tempered the axe in oil. The hardening went great! After that, I made new descents at the axe, made a new axe handle from beech and conducted an intere