The ice pick looks terrific, almost too nice to use. Really well done. A fun collaboration. Happy to have helped. You made the wood shine. The cold bluing on the cap was a good call. I always enjoy the history. Dave.
Great Pokey Thing Restoration that came out very beautiful looking and the screw choice was spot on keeping it original looking ... Take care Mr 357magdad and also Mr Chuck nice to see him back in the shop ... I am always looking forward to next Sundays Video
That was good of LV Woodturner to help you out Magdad, what a great community this is ! That little ice pick came out great, can't beat the holy trinity of brass, wood & steel, and once again the early American stain was spot on for a vintage tool !
Excellent job, like the lag screw conversion you did, the handle was well done,enhanced by the choice of the wood. Finished out great. Thanks for the video sir.
Finding time to watch tool restoration videos (or make shop time) has been cut down to about once every 6/8 weeks! Great work, nice to see your still at it! Great work!
Very cool. That really turned out well. My parents had an ice pick virtually identical to this one. Growing up before self-defrosting freezers, as a chore I had to manually defrost the freezer from time to time and this was the tool of choice to remove sheets of accumulated ice. We also used it to chip ice from a large block of ice. It was much cheaper to buy a large block rather than cubed ice back in the day. Great video. It's appreciated.
Very nice Magdad 👍🏻👍🏻 You didn’t have a lot to start with but it turned out awesome. I have a screwdriver just like that. I was surprised to see it was a ice pick. Thank You for sharing
I think I would have tried to repair the handle. If it wasn’t successful then I would have turned a new one. Yours turned out beautiful, nice restoration. Thank You
Absolutely wonderful restoration. From trash to treasure. I agree completely with the decision to use a slotted screw on the end cap. Have you noticed that it's getting harder to get the slotted screws you want at the hardware store? Looks to me like the stores are pushing Phillips head fasteners. Great video as usual.
Really nice result. Well done. I’m looking at a n accumulation of user metal files that could use some handles. Maybe time to fire up the wood lathe and the metal lathe. Great ideas in your video. Thanks.
I would have liked to see an attempt at gluing the original handle back together. It looked like the pieces fit pretty well so it should have worked. I just love the character of old wood. It’s hard to beat.
Fantastic job on the ice pick as always I have seen all your videos and have really enjoyed them. You have shown Jack several times and I would like to see his videos where would I find them
Thanks for watching Michael! Jack was a viewer who passed away. His wife sent me some of collection to work on and include in my charity auction. Jack did not have a RU-vid channel.
It looks absolutely beautiful! I don’t think I’ve ever heard of spalted honey locust. Do you know where that type of tree grows? The wood grain of that handle is top notch.
Thanks Martin! In the old days, before every house had a refrigerator, ice was sold in large blocks. People store the block in ice boxes. An ice pick was used to break smaller pieces off of the block. Also, early refrigerators did not have auto defrost, many folks used ice picks to chip the accumulated frost out of their freezers.
I’d there any kind of file that could file between lettering like on that butt cap? I s see m picturing something like a slotted screwdriver shaped as a file on the tip and also picturing something like a split tipped flathead screwdriver that holds strips of sandpaper or abrasive if you wanted to crisp up the lettering. I just never heard of such tools outside of a dentist office
Thanks! It was a fun collaboration project! I've since gotten my own "lathe". Check out my tiny lathe playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PL2LUCgmdqpXO1J5MYEHZJ4rjVGHGIgbad
