Alot of people commenting on how much faster and easier it would have been with power tools. Some people don't have power tools and specifically search out videos like these. Also, when you get finished with a project like this it is so rewarding when done by hand. Some people just enjoy the aesthetics of doing it this way. Lastly, some people love having one arm look like Popeyes and the other arm looking like Olive-oil's!
i found a big 2.5" anchor bolt at the tesla plant going up in austin TX. im wanting to do this with it and use it as a paper weight. could not have made a better video myself.
I completely agree. If I’m doing it for someone else or doing it knowing I’m going to sell the finished product, I’d prefer to use a buffer machine. But things I plan to keep in the collection I like to do by hand I enjoy knowing I put the time and effort into it more.
@@Biggchad for sure. When I ‘restored’ my first couple of pieces I only had hand tools. Later, I acquired some power tools and did a few and it was quicker but not as satisfying.
That's neat. But the fact that you can do that with a buffing wheel in about an hour makes it seem silly. Then again I just spent 20 minutes watching someone polish an axe...
Just a little tip, always fold your sandpaper in thirds. It keeps it from sliding around all over the place, as well as giving three surfaces to sand with as it is difficult to apply pressure at the edges of the sand paper.
I use wet sandpaper as lubricant just water. I go through grits: 180/240/320/400/600 sometimes 800 but i find for knives i always use 600 is enough....there will be scratches anyway. I never go higher because i dont like mirrow polish....i think mirrow polish finish is for posers.....;)
Hardening (heating to red hot and quenching in oil) makes the Blade hard, too hard it will be brittle and can break. Sorry english is not my fist language i may used the wrong word i meant tempering. With tempering you heat the blade again but slower and not as hot as when quenching. So with tempering you get some "flexibility / softness " back so the blade can be used, it is than hard enough to hold an edge, but not too hard so it would chip. Annealing is making it soft again by heating to red hot, and letting it slowly aircool.
Trick from a guy who restored a couple of medieval armor replicas: Let your 600 and 1000/2000 grit sandpaper clog up some as you work and get mirror finish in less time with the same car metal polish and no more than 2000 grit. Just keep sanding when your 600+ seems clogged up and see how it goes from there...
@@marcn8750 As it gets clogged up, it becomes smoother and the grit seems finer, as if it was a higher grit sandpaper, but broken in. If you go for a new sheet of higher grit paper from there, you'll have to break that one in while making the surface dull again.
@@Flashahol interesting. I’ve always wondered why my older used sandpaper seems to be more gentle. So it’s basically less aggressive snd will give a shine faster IF the surface cuts are “ready” for it. The slag on the used paper is basically steel dust mixed with the lubricant. The abrasive on the paper is either worn away or covered by this slag. Correct?
Nice job. In my experience, normal cloth towels and paper towels are abrasive to mirror polished surfaces. I think that's why you had scratches in the end. Try to buff off with clean microfiber with gentle pressure if you can and see the difference.
He needed to buff with Tripoli after sanding and before polishing. It removes the fine scratches that sanding doesn’t get unless you go to 15 or 20k grit. I do this at my job.
@@lydiaajohnson do you have a good outlet for higher grit paper? I usually only find stuff that goes up to 7 K maximum, I've never found anything higher than that except for a few on Amazon that seem like crap quality.
@@phantomcreamer It's better that he is in his shop and being useful somehow than to be one of those child "men" who play video games all day and are being totally useless around the house with zero practical skill- or/and knowledge - or even worse, one of those men that are being unfaithful or use drugs and what not. A handy man will at least be able to build things around- and inside the house. A man is not made to sit around his wife all day and braid her hair so to speak. It's a big misconception about how a relationship should be like - that a man and a woman need to have everything in common in order for a relationship to work - and one of the reason why many fall apart today. It's all lies pushed by dumb feminists and beta males. Marriages lasted much longer when men and women married without having anything in common, when each knew their place. A man is a man and should do man things, a woman is a woman and should do woman things, a plant is a plant and should do plant things.
I feel your pain... I restore and sell norlund axes on ebay with exotic handles. Most polished.. I do use a flapwheel for primary grind, but i hand sand the rest. 60(flap) 120, 180, 220 320 400 600 1000 1500 2000 then black then white compound on a wheel. It takes me about 4 hrs start to finish on a polish.
Well I hate to burst your bubble but you see you're doing what we like to call Force clogging every single time that you spray WD-40 on there you're clogging the paper you're basically making a piece of 180 a greasy 300 don't do that ever trust me I know what I'm talkin about I professionally polished metal for a living
I agree with the process, that is, up until the polishing. the mag polish is for magnesium, not steel. if you change to a German metal polish like Semichome, as well as, keeping your polish stokes straight and not going around in circles, it will produce a clearer reflection. The thing to also take note of is for people trying to do this, make sure you remove "ALL" the scratches caused by the previous sandpaper. If not, you will get a distorted reflection (kind of like a carnival mirror). If you would like to keep the polish, you will need to seal with a metal lacquer to prevent it from oxidizing. However, for me personally, I would have used machines, it's just a little faster.
Agreed. Though, I wouldn't bother to polish the whole axe head in the first place, just the primary bevel with the cutting edge. The remainder would be fine with a 600 grid finish. But I guess the video still fits its intended purpose, except for the use of an unsuitable polishing compound.
It sounds light the paste and/or cotton wheel could be too coarse, or you are applying too much pressure when applying it to the buffing wheel. Make sure your buffing wheel is clean and you are using a very small amount of your paste and let the bracelet bearly touch the wheel.
If you look at the video though, the container says "for polishing all metal" right on the front of it. I think he got the intended result and the product seemed to work just fine!
You need to learn how to use a file. It cuts on the push stroke only. If you pull back you flatten the teeth. What happens when you use it? You get scratches, so why go to these lengths. Pointless. You must have time to waste.
Scratches visible in the end are from the 600 grit.. you made a jump too big going 1500.. so all the steps after 600 could not eliminate those.. they take off minute amounts af material.. good job tho!
I use Mother's Metal Polish available in a red squirt bottle. People falsely claim that you can use toothpaste to polish metal, but aluminum oxide has been entirely eliminated as an ingredient in toothpastes in the US, and toothpaste doesn't work anymore.
I appreciate the hard work that went into this, but a couple critiques that I would make is that you are using too much pressure. The sand paper will remove material no matter how hard you press, but pushing too hard will leave scratches. With light pressure you can finish in half the time. You can achieve a mirror finish using water and 2000 grit sand paper with light finger pressure. WD-40 has surfactants in it that will prevent you from achieving a good finish, so you should save that until the end after the buff. if you have any light scratches a little rouge will take care of it with a microfiber cloth. if there are any major gouges I'd recommend a bastard cut mill file. It won't cause deep scratches, but will take a little longer. Never change directions. if you're sanding from heel to edge do that the through whole process. Once the scratches disappear from the previous grit then go to the next higher. If you move the the next grit too soon you will have scratches though that won't come out. I normally use 60, 120, 220, 400, 600, 1000, 1200, and 2000.
You wore me out on this. You can make the handle with power tools. It'll take me a week to get over the Axe polish. Thanks very much for your time and effort.
Thank you so much for this video I was actually wondering if I could polish my meat cleaver with sandpaper and you are going through the same procedures I was thinking if it could be possible so thank you very much for this video
Thats impressive i repair and restore axes for friends and family and ine guy asked me if i could do a mirror finish. Knowing i do everything by hand i just loved to see this video.
I just spent 21 minutes and 12 seconds trying to figure out if you’re a Yooper or from Wisconsin. I have a feeling you’re a Yooper only because you said “anudder” instead of another. Lol.
yeah, right off the bat, I was wondering if this guy was from Canada or one of the northern states bordering canada. He kept on saying 'Dee' instead of 'the' and instead of Emery 'cloth' he said 'Emery Clot'. In a slightly related note, I have a relative that is from a rural area in Western Kentucky. And instead of saying a phrase like "get a hold of it", she says, "GetaHoeFenUvit" -- or geta hofenuv. That isnt the only one.
Now that is beautiful!- Great job- I restore antique Military swords , bayonets etc. and know exactly how long it takes to do what you have done on this axe head. I just finished restoring a 1907 British Sword Bayonet and I'm tired. It's amazing how sore you get polishing metal by hand. When I restore I'm not in love with patina - I love the mirror finish look. Anyway great video
This is absolute madness. Ever since I polished my first knife I wanted to do it on an axe head too , but knowing how much work it will take I never did. Thanks for sharing it with us. I would love to see the shine after a buffing wheel. Only then all this work with the sandpaper will pay of.
it really is quite time-consuming when you do it all by hand. whenever I'm watching TV at 10 to sit and sand one, it takes a lot of the bore out of it LOL.
After you sand, if you use Tripoli to buff, then rouge to polish, you will remove the finest stretches left from the 10,000 grit. I do this with bronze. Since you worked so hard, you should get some Tripoli and wool buffing pads and try it. Then polish with a super soft cloth-no paper towels or Terry cloth, too abrasive. Fine cotton cloth. Many micro fibers are too abrasive too.
I've been using this (and other videos) as a reference for trying to clean up the finish on a firearm from 1891 (don't worry, it's not an heirloom or rare/expensive, it's basically just a project) I'm in an apartment and besides the occasional dremel there's not much I can do besides hand work, it's some good exercise after a while I'll give it that lol
I have a knife made of D2 tool steel with fine scratches. And I'm trying to get it polished. With a mirrors edge. I think I'm down to the metal polish step. What metal polish should I be using? And will just a rag work? Also how long did you polish for?
Very nice, now you have to pick up your trash and get some rest, but tomorrow.... tomorrow you get to show off your polished axe head. You'll be smiling all day. People will see it and be amazed.
I would like you to make an axe without any tools from iron ore, just a small fire, some clay to separate iron from ore, stones afterwards to shape the iron, than make a handle from a nose bone of a living rhino, which you have to steal yourself without any medicines, weapons, or tools, and you have to shape it into beautiful handle, than make a 1024 layer damascus steel, make damaskus axe using stones you find nearby, assemble it, and than sell it on e-bay for 10$, but you have to film selling it also, ok? Big fan of channel, looking forward to watching this video.
Wellp. Scuffed a blade sharpening it which has a mirror polish. Think skip all coarser grits and try mag polish first before any sand paper…but if do end up needing to re mirror polish this sword by hand, thanks for the guide/demo of diff grits skipping me a lot of learning lessons. Wish me luck lol
I have my Grampa's axe head and the heel is badly peened over should I heat it up and beat the metal flat again and recontour the heel or just grind off the rolled over edges? I don't really want to remove so much metal if I can help it and I thought heating the heel up and moving the metal back as close to where it's supposed to be would save the heel better? Any help would be greatly appreciated :) The head is way over 100 years old and has no makers marks on it!
I suspect you could have saved a lot of those hours, plus some of the deeper scratches, buy soaking for a few hours in a rust-removal solution. Then you could have started with a lighter paper for the finishing.
after this video, I spent my first hour or so on my axe with some coarse paper and some lubricant. The surface is getting nice and smooth but the pitting from the forging is way too deep to remove by hand. I think I'll have to leave them.
Gj I use mostly hand tools in the winter cause my shop is my old bedroom and no dust issues this way. I have hand restored many tools and it works good for me. Plus No gym needed:]
Can anyone explain why you would want to have an axe like a mirror, i thought they were for working, and although i am more that careful to take care of all my tools i dont need them to put make up on with. All my tool are well cleaned and oiled for storage, and things like chisels are taken out and given a new edge e very so often, some of them being over two hundred years old but a real pleasure to use.
people may say Its a waste of time but it's quite fun to do when you have nothing to do at all, polished a super old knife from my grand parent's and yeah it's quite shiny
Rust will come again after few days or a week after this video?if the rust will come again what should i do amd what is the mainteenace to avoid rust and to keep it shine?please reply my message i want to do it also..thanks
can you tell me how to get rid of those dimples on a hardened steel surface? iam trying to polish a hammer head, but it would take literal ages for me to get all of it down with a file......
I use that metal polish on my dirt bike on the frame an other bits and it makes it mirror blue finish mine is aluminium polish tho i dont think you should use it on steel
Uuuum does the mirror finish really help split the wood better? You know how much wood I got split already???? Here hold my rusty axe....let me try looking at myself before I get to banging this thing up....good day sir😊
Tbh, it seems like you made this a lot harder and take a lot longer than it needed to be. It looks perfect yeah, but on an axe or something like that, I wouldn't have worried as much about pits, especially since it took you orders of magnitude longer between grits overall. Also, you could have easily cross-polished between grits. One grit one direction, the next grit crossed against it. That probably didn't matter as much, but you put too much time sanding in 100 different directions when it's completely unnecessary IMO.
Pro tip : I like to keep the head of the axe rusty so when You're out doing you're murderin' they don't see the moon shine off it and alert people
LOL'd a few times! thanks.
Good tip
Nice sharp humor. Idk why anyone would want to not use machinery.
🤣🤣🤣
Noted lol
Alot of people commenting on how much faster and easier it would have been with power tools. Some people don't have power tools and specifically search out videos like these. Also, when you get finished with a project like this it is so rewarding when done by hand. Some people just enjoy the aesthetics of doing it this way. Lastly, some people love having one arm look like Popeyes and the other arm looking like Olive-oil's!
i found a big 2.5" anchor bolt at the tesla plant going up in austin TX. im wanting to do this with it and use it as a paper weight. could not have made a better video myself.
Using mechanical equipment can be faster but doing something quickly dose not always mean it is done properly.
Olive Oyl* 😊😊
I completely agree. If I’m doing it for someone else or doing it knowing I’m going to sell the finished product, I’d prefer to use a buffer machine. But things I plan to keep in the collection I like to do by hand I enjoy knowing I put the time and effort into it more.
@@Biggchad for sure. When I ‘restored’ my first couple of pieces I only had hand tools. Later, I acquired some power tools and did a few and it was quicker but not as satisfying.
There is something satisfying about hand polishing, total waste of time, but satisfying.
That's neat. But the fact that you can do that with a buffing wheel in about an hour makes it seem silly. Then again I just spent 20 minutes watching someone polish an axe...
Jeremy C That's why God invented fast forward.
Yes we did ... lmao
Power tools are to fast, once the material is gone you can't go back.
Love this comment 🤣 tbf I love my hand tools its a good way to sit and consolidate your thoughts
Buffing wheel is one of the most dangerous tools in most shops
this isnt sped up, he's just that fast.
Yup. He's the flash
@@n_ist_0326 lmao I’m watching that show rn and that I was gonna reply that
Yeah he had to slow it down because the original video at actual speed was only 3 minutes and 25 seconds
Spent 40 years as a tool maker and polishing was one of my jobs. I’ll be dammed if I’m going to polish something then stick it in a tree.
Just a little tip, always fold your sandpaper in thirds. It keeps it from sliding around all over the place, as well as giving three surfaces to sand with as it is difficult to apply pressure at the edges of the sand paper.
This video should be called "Why we invented power tools!"
Hehe im making knives just for fun and i got no power tools. The most relaxing / fun part is hand sanding the hardened and annealed blade. =)
@@Sakuxxx1x May I ask what grits or wax do you use? Im up to the same hobby.
I use wet sandpaper as lubricant just water. I go through grits: 180/240/320/400/600 sometimes 800 but i find for knives i always use 600 is enough....there will be scratches anyway. I never go higher because i dont like mirrow polish....i think mirrow polish finish is for posers.....;)
Hardening (heating to red hot and quenching in oil) makes the Blade hard, too hard it will be brittle and can break. Sorry english is not my fist language i may used the wrong word i meant tempering. With tempering you heat the blade again but slower and not as hot as when quenching. So with tempering you get some "flexibility / softness " back so the blade can be used, it is than hard enough to hold an edge, but not too hard so it would chip. Annealing is making it soft again by heating to red hot, and letting it slowly aircool.
It should be title "Why climate change removed power tools"
When he said ' This isn't perfect, I literally dropped my phone.
Trick from a guy who restored a couple of medieval armor replicas:
Let your 600 and 1000/2000 grit sandpaper clog up some as you work and get mirror finish in less time with the same car metal polish and no more than 2000 grit. Just keep sanding when your 600+ seems clogged up and see how it goes from there...
Thanks for the tip!
@@frenchriversprings nice video. What’s the reason for changing the direction of the sanding?
What the reason that letting the 600 grits clog up gets a mirror finish faster ?
@@marcn8750 As it gets clogged up, it becomes smoother and the grit seems finer, as if it was a higher grit sandpaper, but broken in. If you go for a new sheet of higher grit paper from there, you'll have to break that one in while making the surface dull again.
@@Flashahol interesting. I’ve always wondered why my older used sandpaper seems to be more gentle.
So it’s basically less aggressive snd will give a shine faster IF the surface cuts are “ready” for it.
The slag on the used paper is basically steel dust mixed with the lubricant. The abrasive on the paper is either worn away or covered by this slag.
Correct?
Nice job. In my experience, normal cloth towels and paper towels are abrasive to mirror polished surfaces. I think that's why you had scratches in the end. Try to buff off with clean microfiber with gentle pressure if you can and see the difference.
He needed to buff with Tripoli after sanding and before polishing. It removes the fine scratches that sanding doesn’t get unless you go to 15 or 20k grit. I do this at my job.
@@lydiaajohnson do you have a good outlet for higher grit paper? I usually only find stuff that goes up to 7 K maximum, I've never found anything higher than that except for a few on Amazon that seem like crap quality.
very patient man you are , your wife must be happy .
U envy ? You want to be his wife or what?
@@tychus8219 no I don't envy him at all .
Nah man, he's in the shop all day. Women hate that
Hand polish it they said, its worth it they said.
@@phantomcreamer It's better that he is in his shop and being useful somehow than to be one of those child "men" who play video games all day and are being totally useless around the house with zero practical skill- or/and knowledge - or even worse, one of those men that are being unfaithful or use drugs and what not. A handy man will at least be able to build things around- and inside the house. A man is not made to sit around his wife all day and braid her hair so to speak. It's a big misconception about how a relationship should be like - that a man and a woman need to have everything in common in order for a relationship to work - and one of the reason why many fall apart today. It's all lies pushed by dumb feminists and beta males. Marriages lasted much longer when men and women married without having anything in common, when each knew their place. A man is a man and should do man things, a woman is a woman and should do woman things, a plant is a plant and should do plant things.
I feel your pain... I restore and sell norlund axes on ebay with exotic handles. Most polished.. I do use a flapwheel for primary grind, but i hand sand the rest. 60(flap) 120, 180, 220 320 400 600 1000 1500 2000 then black then white compound on a wheel. It takes me about 4 hrs start to finish on a polish.
Excellent video, man!
Thanks for showing all this - it's handy knowledge to reference!
Have a nice sunday
Cheers.
Well I hate to burst your bubble but you see you're doing what we like to call Force clogging every single time that you spray WD-40 on there you're clogging the paper you're basically making a piece of 180 a greasy 300 don't do that ever trust me I know what I'm talkin about I professionally polished metal for a living
I agree with the process, that is, up until the polishing. the mag polish is for magnesium, not steel. if you change to a German metal polish like Semichome, as well as, keeping your polish stokes straight and not going around in circles, it will produce a clearer reflection. The thing to also take note of is for people trying to do this, make sure you remove "ALL" the scratches caused by the previous sandpaper. If not, you will get a distorted reflection (kind of like a carnival mirror). If you would like to keep the polish, you will need to seal with a metal lacquer to prevent it from oxidizing. However, for me personally, I would have used machines, it's just a little faster.
Agreed. Though, I wouldn't bother to polish the whole axe head in the first place, just the primary bevel with the cutting edge. The remainder would be fine with a 600 grid finish. But I guess the video still fits its intended purpose, except for the use of an unsuitable polishing compound.
It sounds light the paste and/or cotton wheel could be too coarse, or you are applying too much pressure when applying it to the buffing wheel. Make sure your buffing wheel is clean and you are using a very small amount of your paste and let the bracelet bearly touch the wheel.
Many thank for your advice, i will try
Why can't it be used for steel?
If you look at the video though, the container says "for polishing all metal" right on the front of it. I think he got the intended result and the product seemed to work just fine!
You need to learn how to use a file. It cuts on the push stroke only. If you pull back you flatten the teeth. What happens when you use it? You get scratches, so why go to these lengths. Pointless. You must have time to waste.
not every one has power tools so its good to know how to do it ..how long does it last before it needs another polish kept inside
who needs power tools when your hands move that fast lolol :) great job by the way
This guy has some serious patience and discipline. Well done!!! Make the handle!
Thank You. The handle video is made.
Scratches visible in the end are from the 600 grit.. you made a jump too big going 1500.. so all the steps after 600 could not eliminate those.. they take off minute amounts af material.. good job tho!
Surprised no one point out the glaring error with this video. Pepsi is gross dude.
This is an impressive video how to transform iron-cost axe to gold-cost axe!
I use Mother's Metal Polish available in a red squirt bottle. People falsely claim that you can use toothpaste to polish metal, but aluminum oxide has been entirely eliminated as an ingredient in toothpastes in the US, and toothpaste doesn't work anymore.
WONDERFUL job! Thanks for sharing with us and taking all the time/effort to make and narrate this fine step by step video!!!
I appreciate the hard work that went into this, but a couple critiques that I would make is that you are using too much pressure. The sand paper will remove material no matter how hard you press, but pushing too hard will leave scratches. With light pressure you can finish in half the time. You can achieve a mirror finish using water and 2000 grit sand paper with light finger pressure. WD-40 has surfactants in it that will prevent you from achieving a good finish, so you should save that until the end after the buff. if you have any light scratches a little rouge will take care of it with a microfiber cloth.
if there are any major gouges I'd recommend a bastard cut mill file. It won't cause deep scratches, but will take a little longer. Never change directions. if you're sanding from heel to edge do that the through whole process. Once the scratches disappear from the previous grit then go to the next higher. If you move the the next grit too soon you will have scratches though that won't come out.
I normally use 60, 120, 220, 400, 600, 1000, 1200, and 2000.
Wow. That’s dedication for you. Stunning job dude. Thank you.x
You wore me out on this. You can make the handle with power tools. It'll take me a week to get over the Axe polish. Thanks very much for your time and effort.
Thank you so much for this video I was actually wondering if I could polish my meat cleaver with sandpaper and you are going through the same procedures I was thinking if it could be possible so thank you very much for this video
Your welcome. You can polish almost anything using this procedure.
Thats impressive i repair and restore axes for friends and family and ine guy asked me if i could do a mirror finish. Knowing i do everything by hand i just loved to see this video.
I just spent 21 minutes and 12 seconds trying to figure out if you’re a Yooper or from Wisconsin. I have a feeling you’re a Yooper only because you said “anudder” instead of another. Lol.
yeah, right off the bat, I was wondering if this guy was from Canada or one of the northern states bordering canada. He kept on saying 'Dee' instead of 'the' and instead of Emery 'cloth' he said 'Emery Clot'. In a slightly related note, I have a relative that is from a rural area in Western Kentucky. And instead of saying a phrase like "get a hold of it", she says, "GetaHoeFenUvit" -- or geta hofenuv. That isnt the only one.
I'd guess French Canadian. He said he got his sandpaper from sandpaper.ca
Que gran trabajo haces mostrando ó mejor dicho, enseñando a las personas lo que sabes y te apasiona, te felicito
Waiting for handles. Great job, final product very inspiring
I love seeing videos where people use hand tools instead of power tools. Shows their true skills.
This is basically a 20 min video showing you how to use sandpaper
Now that is beautiful!- Great job- I restore antique Military swords , bayonets etc. and know exactly how long it takes to do what you have done on this axe head. I just finished restoring a 1907 British Sword Bayonet and I'm tired. It's amazing how sore you get polishing metal by hand. When I restore I'm not in love with patina - I love the mirror finish look. Anyway great video
That came out nice. I have been picking up axes and hatchets at estate sales. I'm gonna have to try this.
This is absolute madness. Ever since I polished my first knife I wanted to do it on an axe head too , but knowing how much work it will take I never did. Thanks for sharing it with us. I would love to see the shine after a buffing wheel. Only then all this work with the sandpaper will pay of.
it really is quite time-consuming when you do it all by hand.
whenever I'm watching TV at 10 to sit and sand one, it takes a lot of the bore out of it LOL.
After you sand, if you use Tripoli to buff, then rouge to polish, you will remove the finest stretches left from the 10,000 grit. I do this with bronze. Since you worked so hard, you should get some Tripoli and wool buffing pads and try it. Then polish with a super soft cloth-no paper towels or Terry cloth, too abrasive. Fine cotton cloth. Many micro fibers are too abrasive too.
I detect a slight French Canadian accent dare eh?
Looks fantastic, nice job! It definitely needs a handle to make it complete though ;)
I've been using this (and other videos) as a reference for trying to clean up the finish on a firearm from 1891 (don't worry, it's not an heirloom or rare/expensive, it's basically just a project)
I'm in an apartment and besides the occasional dremel there's not much I can do besides hand work, it's some good exercise after a while I'll give it that lol
I get it, long dark winter nights, trying to cope with cabin fever, so polish you ax by hand w/o power tools. I get it.
Awesome job 👍
And also I recognize the time and patience it takes to do such a task but who the hell sharpen the blade first
Hey, Paul!
Cool video. But yea, a mirror polished finish on my axe is not my thing. I would have stopped once the rust was gone. Pits and marks add character. 😁
I have a knife made of D2 tool steel with fine scratches. And I'm trying to get it polished. With a mirrors edge. I think I'm down to the metal polish step. What metal polish should I be using? And will just a rag work? Also how long did you polish for?
10,000 grit must feel like a sheet of paper... is there any feel to the grit at all?
J Wilkens it actually feels smoother than a sheet of paper.
French River Springs I’m not sure why but that messes with my brain
10,000 grit is overkill. Using a polishing compound after 5000 will yield equally great results
Went to the website he bought this from and they have 60,000 grit paper too! Half a micron.
Seriously!
I want to use that to sharpen some stuff!
Very nice, now you have to pick up your trash and get some rest, but tomorrow.... tomorrow you get to show off your polished axe head. You'll be smiling all day. People will see it and be amazed.
Most Canadian guy ever. Holy crap
I would like you to make an axe without any tools from iron ore, just a small fire, some clay to separate iron from ore, stones afterwards to shape the iron, than make a handle from a nose bone of a living rhino, which you have to steal yourself without any medicines, weapons, or tools, and you have to shape it into beautiful handle, than make a 1024 layer damascus steel, make damaskus axe using stones you find nearby, assemble it, and than sell it on e-bay for 10$, but you have to film selling it also, ok? Big fan of channel, looking forward to watching this video.
Should try focusing the camera on the workpiece
Wellp.
Scuffed a blade sharpening it which has a mirror polish. Think skip all coarser grits and try mag polish first before any sand paper…but if do end up needing to re mirror polish this sword by hand, thanks for the guide/demo of diff grits skipping me a lot of learning lessons.
Wish me luck lol
I have my Grampa's axe head and the heel is badly peened over should I heat it up and beat the metal flat again and recontour the heel or just grind off the rolled over edges? I don't really want to remove so much metal if I can help it and I thought heating the heel up and moving the metal back as close to where it's supposed to be would save the heel better? Any help would be greatly appreciated :) The head is way over 100 years old and has no makers marks on it!
I suspect you could have saved a lot of those hours, plus some of the deeper scratches, buy soaking for a few hours in a rust-removal solution. Then you could have started with a lighter paper for the finishing.
Shouldn't have changed stroke direction, just use one stroke and that's straight forward and backwards.
after this video, I spent my first hour or so on my axe with some coarse paper and some lubricant. The surface is getting nice and smooth but the pitting from the forging is way too deep to remove by hand. I think I'll have to leave them.
18:57 he completely lost any faith I had by cutting the footage and then miraculously having the axe mirror finished.
Thank you for the education!!! This is a classic video!!!
what buffer should I buy if I wanna go from 2500 grit and just finish the scratches away?
Gj I use mostly hand tools in the winter cause my shop is my old bedroom and no dust issues this way. I have hand restored many tools and it works good for me. Plus No gym needed:]
Now, are you going to chop some wood or what. ? Excellent work and I wouldn't blame you to save it for a show piece.
Can anyone explain why you would want to have an axe like a mirror, i thought they were for working, and although i am more that careful to take care of all my tools i dont need them to put make up on with.
All my tool are well cleaned and oiled for storage, and things like chisels are taken out and given a new edge e very so often, some of them being over two hundred years old but a real pleasure to use.
I'll bet he went to the electric buffer after this video was done. :)
people may say Its a waste of time but it's quite fun to do when you have nothing to do at all, polished a super old knife from my grand parent's and yeah it's quite shiny
Old but hardly used . New old stock . Try my chipped gouged and worn rusty axe head it would take a week .
Rust will come again after few days or a week after this video?if the rust will come again what should i do amd what is the mainteenace to avoid rust and to keep it shine?please reply my message i want to do it also..thanks
can you tell me how to get rid of those dimples on a hardened steel surface? iam trying to polish a hammer head, but it would take literal ages for me to get all of it down with a file......
Idk why you’d want to do this by hand. A machine will get as good or better results in 30 mins
I’d just like to hear this guy say, “uh, missus huwigginsuh, can uh you a come uh here uh just a minute?”
Thanks, I want to restore an ax I have but don't want to throw a ton of money into buying tools. I have time and patience.
Your forearms must be like Popeye's after that!
I assume thats a German accent, my friends call me New Hamburg kraut, lol. .
12 hours of absorbing WD40 into your skin - how were they after?
Won a scout ax head in an auction. Had my dad take it into qork and light grind rust but there an lot of pit might have to try the method
Why can I instantly hear a Canadian accent in videos but I never do in real life. lol
Lol. He's just drunk a bit after the first 7 minutes of video. 😅
Can someone write under this comment all of the sandpapers? I didn't understand.
this is ridiculous. my time is much more valuable than this. ill donate a palm sander.
Tip: put the video on 2x it’s fully understandable
Polish an axe to the point that it's a shame to use it very logical but I put most my time in the fit of a handle but I only restore for use
I use that metal polish on my dirt bike on the frame an other bits and it makes it mirror blue finish mine is aluminium polish tho i dont think you should use it on steel
Three minutes into this video, and I bought a random orbit sander on Amazon.
What a chad. Wow. His wife probably faints when she sees him shirtless with an ax in his hands.
Well looks like I know what I am doing this weekend
trying to get a life ,,, buy a flap disc polish in ten mins ,,, go drink beer chase girls ,,, lifes too short to polish silly axe heads
@@tomthompson7400 chasing girls is no life
@@Gwynbleiddsanity chasing them is fine ,,, trouble only starts when you catch one.
And I spotted a Spyderco in the pocket.
Well done mate, champion effort 👍👍👍🤳🤳🤳
Uuuum does the mirror finish really help split the wood better? You know how much wood I got split already???? Here hold my rusty axe....let me try looking at myself before I get to banging this thing up....good day sir😊
Jeez, I bet that axe was 1/4lbs lighter by the time he was done.
basic question: why WD40?
i want to do this to a full raw steel x bike
Steps were skipped, that’s why scratches still show up.
The lengths some guys will go to to get away from their wives!
the metal polish works well with news paper
that was wonderful, nicely done.
Tbh, it seems like you made this a lot harder and take a lot longer than it needed to be. It looks perfect yeah, but on an axe or something like that, I wouldn't have worried as much about pits, especially since it took you orders of magnitude longer between grits overall. Also, you could have easily cross-polished between grits. One grit one direction, the next grit crossed against it. That probably didn't matter as much, but you put too much time sanding in 100 different directions when it's completely unnecessary IMO.
On the first step how long did it take your really
big job,excelent video,thanks
no power tool? the man is the power tool, 50,000 rpm!