Extremely Rusty Pitted Axe Restoration - Incredible Finish! 

Would have been a good Hewing axe, no chance of hitting your feet with the head lol.

There were a lot of fish to chop.

😂 Those are some great jokes!

I've done a few. it's fun

0:46 "There's a *little bit of blue paint* peeking through the rust..."

0:56 "I'm *starting to see a stamp coming out of the rust* ..." (nice foreshadowing idea about the *blue color and laser engraving of the axe* 🪓 right there...)

Taking off the first layer before hand does two things: Takes less time in the sand blaster and keep rust residue out of the blasting basin.

Thanks Lawrence! It was fun doing this. Swedish fish and an axe. All I needed was some IKEA furniture to round out the video.

The pits are what gives them the cool vintage look bro. U want perfect and smooth go buy a new one.

I mean probably, but there's no RU-vid ad revenue from just buying a new axe.

That's a good point Chris and I think about it sometimes when I restore an axe. But there is the satisfaction of taking a classic ax and giving it a new life. Someone will be using this axe 100 years from now. (Plus, have you priced Swedish axes lately?) 🙂

It's always worth it to restore a good quality axe, compared to buy a junk chinese axe from a hardware store. Wetterlings are sadly out of business. I always scout flea markets for old good quality Swedish or Danish (DSI, which went out of business around 2000) axes, either in usable condition at a price I can see myself paying, or as I did with the last one, found someone selling an old DSI 4 that needed a little tlc, she didn't know much about it, thus sold it to me for about what would be $12. Took the handle off, which was then scraped and sanded down, probably the original 30-40+ year old handle too, went over the head here and there, really good shape for it's age, poll hasn't been hammered too many times then it was ready, put it back on the handle, oiled it, sharpened the bit and its life is back, love it, quite short handle for the head, 4lbs and a mere 50-ish cm, but having looked at historical files it was like that when it was new. Also have some awesome old dsi hammers that I've never seen anything like before, kinda regular with nail puller but the design is so different, I think they're at least 60 years old.