Wood Craft on a Budget Part 10 Refurbishing Old Tools1

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morning guys Dave Canterbury with Pathfinder school but I want to talk about in the next in our series on wood crafts on a budget is repurposing old tools and we talked about a fro yesterday and how to utilize that forever we had forged a pearl now here at the Pathfinder school now if you don't have access to a forge and an anvil and the tools it takes to forge tools then obviously you can't craft some of those tools for yourself and you'll have to repurpose or buy them used or new but the purpose of doing things on a budget is to find them at the best quality at the best price that you can possibly afford so I want to show you an axe and we're going to redo this axe today this is a Western Union telephone company patch it and it is not a hewing axe a hewing axe is beveled on one side this has got a double bevel bevel on both sides this is a axe okay again this is a Western Union telephone company axe made by Collins and Collins makes very very good access it's got a nice big heavy-duty traditional head design on it it has some mushrooming around the back that we took care of it had a very dull edge on it that we took care of as well in this video and we've brought this thing back to life but when I bought this axe at a flea market it was only $15 so that's $15 for a hatchet that will last a lifetime and I think that is what budget wood craft is all about stay with me will you start you can see this ax has a small Nick in it right here not worried about that that'll come out over time of sharpening not worried about a little Nick like that especially a used ax that I bought I'm not going to try to grind that Nick completely out of there that Nick's not going to hurt anything right now as far as the cutting ability of this ax I'm using a mill file on this ax and a mill file is designed to cut both directions it's not like a normal file that only cuts in one direction a mill file cuts in both directions so I can kind of massage this way using this vice with the blade straight up pretty much keeping the blade away from me I got my hand on the outside the blade as I do that my other option would be to put this knife to put this axe down flat on something and go away from myself but with this I can kind of go back and forth to get my initial edge and then use my stone to buff the final edge in this axe is beveled on both sides of the axe it's not like a healing type box where it's only bevel on one side this wasn't made for a hatchet the hatchet type work was it made the healing

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like I've said in past videos I always use water on my stones not oil there's gonna be some residual oil on your tools or oil of some kind whether it's fat tallow suet lard or just plain oil but if you get your stone clogged up with oil and a piece of metal you're never gonna go go back up water water is a very good thing to use when you're in a wilderness type environment so I just use my puck in circular fashion just like this I always lubricated with the water and I can look right down that axe and see my angle and I could do this by holding it in my hand but the vise comes in real handy for this spot where I get that nick out of it right there it wasn't there when I bought it will slowly disappear as I sharpen it more and more but to take that much metal off the head to get rid of that Nick there's truly unnecessary for something that you want to use like an axe if this was something I were going to try to do a lot of fine carving with I wouldn't want that Nick in there obviously but for something I'm just gonna be chopping wood with split kindling now what I've done I'm just going to take this thing and wipe it down really good with an oily rag make sure I wipe my edge down make sure I wipe the areas down where I had the grinder on there because those are going to be prone to rust faster you can see I left that Western Union telephone company logo on there on purpose i ground really light there just to make sure that I didn't get into that logo I wanted to go ahead and leave that on there just for traditionalism sake if nothing else and then I'm going to use that same oily rag on the handle as well to keep this thing well protected from rust

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okay guys well that was just a real quick video on how to repurpose an old hatchet like this this one wasn't too badly rusted if it was I could have sanded the whole thing down it did have a very dull edge on it it's got a good handle on it so I didn't have to replace the handle but I have done videos in the past on replacing the handle or putting a new handle in the axe from the woods you can also buy handles and replace the handles very easily from places on the internet of hardware stores if you can find the right eye shape design handle and there are places on the web you can buy specialty type handles for old hatchet heads like this again something like this that was fifteen dollars and probably an hour's worth of work to bring it back to near regional condition that's going to last a lifetime is what budget wood craft is all about appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you for everything you do for our school for our family for our business for all of our structure sponsors affiliates and Friends I'll be back to another video in this series since I can thanks guys [Music]