Antique Rusty Chisel Restoration 

I an greatly impressed with all of the positive support you get! I really am turned off by negative criticism on many videos. Your work only deserves positive feed back. Keep up the good work!

Sorry to keep adding comments. I'm some what of a tree nerd. Hand tools before the industrial age were typically handled with very specific types of wood for specific applications. Typically handles used for hammer handles ect were typically ash or oak where as handles made for striking or wooden mallets heads were made of Hornbeam. I appreciate all of these type of restoration videos. I simply wish the original thinking towards the tools design were honored in hopes to preserve the knowledge not just the appearance.

Krásná prace❤

Wow, really nice!

I inherited all my dad’s wood chisels from large sets to small. He was an artist and I inherited his artistic talents. Just not any talent for fixing and sharpening them. Some of the butt- end of the handles are shredded and probably need replacement and some of the blades have tiny chips and all need sharpening. I have his rounded cone shaped stones for refining the sharpening of the curved chisels but they probably need the edges redone before those would become useful. I imagine I will have to send them out to be done because I don’t have the tools to do it myself. You do such beautiful work it’s a pleasure to watch you.

I really dig the water bottle trick to continuously wet your grinding stone. My takeaway from this video.

Very nice!

Also thanks for the drill press/ lathe technique. Temp affixing that bearing on the drill base was genius. I learn something NEW every time I watch one of your gear show restores!!!

Turning a drill press into a lathe? Big brain moves

Nice || work

i like how he uses tools from previous restoration! a true utilitarian! well done mate!

I've watched a few similar videos, and I never ever rate the electrolysis part, as most sand it back to bare metal anyway, but seeing the result you achieved by that and then a wire brush, I was impressed. I'd have been very tempted to stop at that point, it looked really good. Once sharpened, it would have worked well, and still looked a proper old chisel. Nice result

Dude A million views for cleaning up a chisel and turning a new handle? Well done!

Anyone could critique away but the bottom line, it worked like a charm. Well done!

Wonderfull to save old tools! This tools made our "World"! Thaks for the great video!!!!

Блестит. Супер работа.

Cant wait to watch the corner brace restoration vid in 99 years

I always watch your videos before going to sleep. It gives me good night vibes.

I swear to God when you did that thing, that thing with the water bottle with the holes in it, I was a better man for a second, just for watching that. Thank you so much. Beautiful work.

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Better than new 👍 it awesome

Mirror polishing with no power tools and that water sharpening just melted my heart, it's so cute

Another great restoration! Turning the drill press into a lathe was a neat trick. One tip for your electrolysis process: it looks like you might be using zinc/galvanized steel or stainless steel scrap anodes. If they are stainless steel, the electrolysis process can produce poisonous chromium compounds in your solution that are hazardous to your health and toxic to dispose of. If you are using zinc/galvanized steel, there is less of a health hazard, but you still may end up lightly plating your part in zinc unintentionally. The best anode material to use is just any plain steel you might have lying around. Happy restoring!

I like the way you shaped the handle with the drill press! Bravo!

You turned an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan! Nicely done! So very cool!

The water bottle to wet the stone is brilliant. Nice work!

I love your 'wooden lathe' machine, and your special water system to sharpen the chissel 😀

LOOKS LIKE IT WORKS ,, -- THUMBS UP ,,

There’s a carpenter in heaven looking down saying "That was my chisel when I was a tradesman, thank you." I really like how you gave it a good firmer chisel handle and not a fancy bench chisel or carving chisel one. It’s good you restored it to what it was rather than something completely different.

Great job. I like the water bottle sharpener set up.

Very nice work. My Uncle's Chisels all had a brass ferrel on the striking end as well.

Nice work; old doesn’t mean bad. Darlington, South Carolina

I really liked when you used the drill press as a lathe, I'll remember that.

Шикарный авто-полив :)

Very, very good technique on all fronts.

Beautiful

Nice refurbish project. Looks like there is many many years of life in that tool now. Thumbs Up!

good for your video

С первых кадров ясно, что видео будет классным! Отличная работа!

Nice lathe!

Nicely done

Another chisel rescue. A new lease on a great tool.

Very nicely done on that chisel, but like everyone else said: That water bottle trick is awesome! haha

A great addition to your wood working tool box

I recommend that you put a pipe ferrule on the top end of the handle as well. Nicely done.

Awesome restoration chisel 👍👍👍✌🏻🇷🇺

Great job. New tool!

You get a subscriber & a like for that water hack.

Excelente trabajo!!! Saludos

beautiful craftsmanship. you opened my eyes with that "lathe". Thank you! A ferrule at the back of the handle helps to avoid braking it. Also, I learned from caulking to always put some masking tape on both parts to be glued to minimize mess.

Oh dear. I clicked on this to see something relaxing before sleep and here I am, a cabinetmaker in training just absolutely foaming at the mouth with rage and frustration at how the back of the chisel was visibly not given any attention at all. It's a damned shame. All that good, old steel that can still cut so well, as the chisels and planes I have from my great-grandfather can prove easily, and now it may look all shiny and nice again but still just barely cuts better than a butterknife. I haven't gotten this stressed over a RU-vid video in a minute. Like, I physically cramped up at seeing how much force had to be put in those cuts at the end. So much effort and such beautiful results in the cosmetics department just makes the piss-poor actual work performance at the end cut real, real deep, if you'll pardon the pun..

It was good, but was the back, (underside), ever properly flattened? That’s important. It looked like just sandpaper was used with a sanding sponge. And what kind of wood was used for the handle? That’s an old ‘registered’ chisel, also sometimes called a ‘firmer’. The sides were created to register perfectly square with the flattened back as to use for cleaning mortises and tenons. They also were used for full mortise work depending on the chisel width and type of wood being cut into. You’ve got some nice techniques. I’m curious if you were able to find a brand name somewhere.

U estamuerto y... Volvió a la vida. Felicidades un gran trabajo. Saludos desde Barcelona Catalonia

Все отлично, заточка на 3.

Wow, how clever the holes in a plastic bottle to keep wet the sharpening stone...

parabéns amigo ótimo trabalho congratulations friend great job

Nice job. Loved that you used the old handle to show how sharp it was.

I really like your work

Buy this guy a bandsaw and a bench grinder with some cool-white wheels and it would go a heck of a lot faster! But very nicely done.

Love the lathe with sofisticated drive dog and tailstock!!

Awesome sir

Absolutely beautiful! TFS!

тоже есть несколько старых хороших стамесок...знал как их востановить, но благодаря Вам увидел весь процес! БОЛЬШОЕ СПАСИБО ЖДУ НОВЫХ ВИДЕО

Muy buena esta otra restauración. Quedó muy bien el formón. Gracias por el vídeo.

При реставрации предметов из чёрных металлов после гальваники положено по классической технологии применять не гриндер с нождачкой, а дисковую латунным крацовку - она не снимает основной металл, но зато убирает разрыхлённую ржавчину из каверн.

Love the drill press use. Brilliant.

Very sharp blade

This was impressive. so many techniques most people can use instead of depending on specific machines. very nice.

Fabulous, better than one new.

Superb, brilliant restoration

drill press as lathe . watter bottle of continous stream of water. hats off man nice video

Like the drill press/vertical lathe trick

Nice your restoration

Nice

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That is great

Excellent job for such rudimentary tools!

Bravo, bravo abs. best work, video and product, super precise work, full respect from old BG.

Fantastic restoration we’ll done 👏

Oh my God, I absolutely love your whetstone/Water bottle hack. I will be using that for sure! Beautiful Work!

really amazing restoration...SUBSCRIBED

Superb work

I'm not sure why, but this is so relaxing!

Excellent work👍👍👍. Thanks for sharing

“Work smarter, not harder” suits you very well.

Very nice👍👍

Very nice!👍🏻

Isto não é um restauro. Isto é uma renovação !!! A beleza da antiguidade da peça, morreu !! Mais valia tê-la deixado como estava e ter ido à loja comprar uma nova

It looks good, but I cant imagine it would function very well. Firstly the back has to be straight and flat, that cant be done by sanding and polishing (the round side of the belt sander is the worst way to clean the surface, itll make problems) it has to be lapped flat on a flat surface that is bigger than the chisel. You cannot get a flat surface without first making it hollow, if its bellied then chances are itll stay bellied during the lapping process, so we have to start from a hollow. A narrow strip of abrasive on a flat surface, and only working the centre of the chisel will give the hollow. Then lapping on a flat surface to take the hollow away and make it flat, the lapping surface has to be bigger than the chisel or it's not gonna be flat, working until the slight hollow has disappeared and your grinding pattern reaches the cutting edge. If it's not flat then it will be hard to control, the flat side of the chisel is your reference surface for paring away high spots....... the flat back registers against the work and the cutting edge takes off the high spots. If the back hasnt been flattened then the leading edge is probably not in plane with the back; if the edge is higher then you'll have to lift the handle of the chisel for it to work; now you have no reference surface to guide the tool along to pare away the high spots....... it's like always using the chisel bevel down, and you cant make the surface you're cutting flat. If the cutting edge is actually lower than the back, the chisel will always dive into the work. Itll do a similar thing when chopping, it wont want to chop plumb. Even brand new chisels have to be flattened when you buy them, they wont work properly if it's not done.

Estupenda restauracion de este cincel oxidado antiguo o formol,mis respetos y saludos desde Venezuela.💯💯💯🤘🤘🤘👍👍👍

That water bottle technique 👌🏼

that's a very nice

It is perfect.

Excelente pieza 👍 muy bonito.

BRAVO!

cool job, great idea to use a drill machine to turn the handle👍

Это общеизвестно, что на рукоятке сзади надо ставить кольцо. Если, конечно, не подразумевается работа только руками. Но изначально, это стамеска, а не резец. Значит...будет еще одно видео,как разбитую ручку еще раз будут менять. Если, конечно, инструмент не поставят в сервант. Или не продадут с аукциона.)

I admire how you ground off the deep pits on the flat side of this chisel. That was a lot of work. From the reflection I see the side where you did all that grinding isn't flat.The tool will function better when you flatten the non-bevel side. That's where the cutting edge is.

Nice job, liked your water bottle idea and using the drill as a lathe, excellent