I picked up this axe head for a dollar at a yard sale today it was worth a buck
when I picked it up I figured what the heck you know even if it's Chinese it's
worth a buck but it turned it over and I hit it with my wire brush here Missy you
buggin ATCO made in Germany good stuff German still is good stuff so I'm going
to clean this up put an edge on it and
put this brand new ash handle on it this handle was eight bucks at my local 899
nine dollars at my local hardware store here it's not a brand name it's just a
mom-and-pop that has every little gadget and widget and whatchamacallit on the
face of this earth it's two-story it's an old barn it's two
stories and all kinds of rooms and man they've got spark plugs for old model
A's I'd love that I could just spend hours wandering around there looking at
stuff in that hardware store I hope they never closed anyway I'm going to clean
this up I'm gonna have to put this on the grinder because this edge is so bad
it's got so many deep gouges and nicks in it that it's going to take some
pretty drastic cleaning up if you do have to put an axe on a grinding wheel
you want to be very careful about keeping this thing cool because it could
lose its temper and if it loses its its temper it won't hold an edge for very
long so I'm going to have a bucket of water right next to the grinder and I'm
going to grind a little bit and then dunk it into water to cool it down and
grinds a little bit and dunk it in the water
and when I get a workable edge then I'm going to take my brand-new mill file and
put a real nice chopping edge on there and I may even take one of my stones
here and you know give it a good surgical edge I've got an older axe here
that is Chinese but I keep all the edges on my stuff
pretty sharp even my wedges I don't know if you can see that I'll take this out
even even my wedges have an edge on them I hate the old tools so I'll get this
cleaned up and show you how it looks like
well I've rubbed on it a little bit with my Dremel and a little sanding a little
drum sander and well this thing sure has some pits in it just makes me mad as
hell to see somebody have a good tool I did not take care of it so I'm going to
get a little bit more aggressive with a angle grinder and see if I can't knock
some of the pitch down just a little bit if I bring this down to the bare metal
I'll have to keep it covered in oil or spray painted black again but that's
okay either way but I'm going to work on it a little bit more just clean it up so
I'm knock some of them pits out of there we're getting there
now the stone back up a little bit see that thumb now I got the tip of that
thumb cut off and a hydraulic shear when I was a kid and I've had some people
make comments about the one and only video I did that my thumbnail was in
view and I had like 7000 views on that particular video when you would not
believe the amount of people that commented on my screwed-up finger now
well on this hand you see that not that surgical wire I got the first three
fingers of that hand mangled up pretty good
this finger here was cut completely off that finger there was hanging by a
thread and I had neuro surgery done and that finger is still together I don't
know if you can see the scar using the I mean my piano wire occasionally a piece
will come out and I take my dremel tool and smooth it off a little bit so it
won't hook on my pocket when I reach in for my keys or something but uh I've had
people ask questions about my screwed-up hands my screwed-up thumb nail and
thought it was kind of odd so my hands are in this video a lot so if you see my
screwed-up thumb nail that's why okay I hit it with some primer black just to
keep it from rusting I'll let that dry and put my new handle on it and I'll
have a German steel axe for about ten bucks a little bit of labor okay let's
uh cut the handle in fix and put this wedge in there and when I get that wedge
in there
the wooden wedge I'm going to put a couple of these in crossways that way
that way it's spreads the handle this way and the middle wedges spread it that
way I'll show you the finished product there you go $10 X with an edge you can
shave with