Restoring an old HB 0,8kg ax

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My grandfather was a carpenter and axeman. I cant remember seeing him whit out at least four out of the flowing five things. Classical morakniv, a Hults bruk adnor axe, a thermos of coffe, rubber boots, tweed cap.

I tried to get some of his axes of my father but lets just say the would not let go. :) So all what I got now is this axe head.

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I'm not sure what to call it, forest axe maybe. The blade shape from above looks like a carpenters ax but the blade shape is more of a felling axe.

How ever I'm going to try to find that out and restore it. First step rust removal, second step new edge. After that I will have to make some decisions about the handle.
 
Nice Axe,check out the Axe,tomahawk forum here on BF.Lot of knowledgeable guys there that will give you a lot of good advise on Restoration.

Stan
 
If you haven't already, put a good coating of oil on it to prevent any more corrosion. As Stan said there are a number of members that restore and collect axes. You could display it and use it as a conversation piece or you could clean it up, haft it and make it into a working ax. Or pretty much anything in between.

Looks like we posted @ same time. :) Looks like a working display piece.
 
Ok. I learned lots of things today. The most visual is that the hot vinegar forced patina lifted the nice black oxide out of the pits. :( And showed of the hardening line. :( Otherwise everything turned out great.
 
One the positive side. The inside of the "eye" is cleaned out and rust free. I managed to file it down. Keep the proportions and general edge geometry and put a shaving edge on it whit no jig. 90% of the work was done whit the bahco Öberg cut file and the husqvarna cheap chains saw file. That would be a good file to do maintenance work with.
 
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SBuzek said:
Nice Axe,check out the Axe,tomahawk forum here on BF.Lot of knowledgeable guys there that will give you a lot of good advise on Restoration.

Stan
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Thanks! I did not know of that section. :). Put a link in there pointing here to avid spaming with double treads.
 
Bo T said:
If you haven't already, put a good coating of oil on it to prevent any more corrosion. As Stan said there are a number of members that restore and collect axes. You could display it and use it as a conversation piece or you could clean it up, haft it and make it into a working ax. Or pretty much anything in between.

Looks like we posted @ same time. :) Looks like a working display piece.
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Thanks! This one is indeed going to be a working display piece!
 
The shaft is 50% done. The work to day went far better than i could have hoped for given the tool I had available. Photobucket seems to have problems showing the pictures thou.
 
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In shaping the ash wood the rasp and öberg cut file if far superior to the high quality 40 paper I bout. I think that if you had a half round file as a compliment you could almost put a rough finish on it this way.
 
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