Rusty Gold: Cold War Hatchet Restoration | West German Axe Full Rehab Process + Tips and Tricks
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- This little hatchet made in West Germany was found on the property of Ms. Rachel Metz out here in the desert. This video is an in depth look at restoring an old tool back to working order. Covering all processes from sharpening, handling, and leather sheath making. Always happy to put rusty gold back to work.
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Appears you’ve had a shift, as though some soul work has settled in. I imagine a move to the desert fits in there. Well done, Brett. You’re a joy to watch.
Well thank ye
Nice build! And so gracious of you to credit Felix and Steve for the tips you learned from them.
Wow! You are a natural. The way you describe the what and why as you work the tool is informative and entertaining. Certainly this is one of the best tool restoration videos I have watched.
Thank you Craig
Ahoy Captain, Been awhile I was wondering if we'd see your flame burnt handle. but you covered that. I'm always on the look out for lonely hatchet/Axe heads, as putting them back in service is alway fun.
Aye
Beautiful work! I love how you revel in the different skills you can bring to bear on these projects; e.g., metal working, wood working, leather working, etc. It's also important to preserve the history of the tools, and not just creating a different tool from what other restorers would treat as a piece of scrap metal. Thank you again for your awe inspiring work.
Thank you JL
That's one of my favorite whackadoodles! Glad to see her in a video with you :) Thanks for sharing!!
Woohooooo
Bar none the best education that I've had on how and why a hatchet is what it is. Thanks for enlightening me Cap'n!
Hooray!
Made in Germany used to be something special, but that was so long ago that the ax was old. Best regards from Germany, Lars
Unfortunate
That was a great tutorial on ax restoration and maintenance. Thanks Brett!
Thank ye
Absolutely awesome Brett! So much talent working with metal, wood and leather. You can tell the thousands of hours you've put into your craft when we see your hands and all their scuffs and scars.
Love the videos, keep up the great work and film style
Cheers 🖤
That's the best axe handle making tutorial I've seen. I'm playing around with old axe heads, shaping them and electro etching them to look a bit viking like but, have struggled making good handles. This will be very useful for my new hobby, 👍
Thank you for watching!
More fantastic work, captain, thank you for sharing it with us!
Thank you for watching!
Great explanation Brett. Drawknives are great tools of the trade.
They really are
Nice video! That little rag trick you did is definitely gunna be something I will be doing! Thanks!
Do it!
Dense with info! I love it. Reminds me of the saw horse video which is another of my favorites. I feel like music selection is super key to get right in these info dense videos to help round it out and make it feel welcoming and light. Great job
Feels like less of a VO/tutorial if we keep the groove going
I really liked this instructional style voice over video from you. Something different. Really good video quality and editing - like always!
Thanks Ed!
Awesome video sir. Very easy and clear explanation on the whole process.
Thank ye
Love the blow by blow explanation.... Very nice guide and video. Thx!
Shiny!
Loved the voice over 👍
especially enjoyed "more Rachel.. so burnt orange.. and oil"
Gotta match that styleeeeees
Thanks for the tips and all of the detail, you also made this look like anyone could easily have a go.
That’s the idea! Woot!
Beautiful work. I have Hung a few axe heads but this video showed me a few new tricks.
Good deal!
Hi Brett. Just subbed based purely on this video. As a fellow axe junkie, it's nice to see a CZcams axe restoration done properly with a decent thought process. Very nice! 😁
I love your vids where you do that talking to the skull and stuff but this video was another level! Its great to hear your experience and explanation - more of the same please!
Deal
Great video - as always Brett!! Thank you for another year of stunning projects!!
Thanks brother
Boy howdy you packed a ton of great information in a few minutes! Great video.
May the new year bring healthy happy prosperous times your way.
Blessed days Sir
Crawford out 🙏🔥⚒️🧙🏼♂️
Cheers brother
Well done, and lots of good tips. Thanks for posting, and thumbs up!
Thanks!
I've rehandled axes and sledges a few times and picked up some good tricks here! Thanks!
Yusssss
More please. Thank you!
Comin up
I appreciate how well you teach. This was very instructional and I greatly enjoyed!
Thanks!
She is so beautiful!! And your video is HILARIOUS!!!
👍🏻
Thank you for answering all those questions about the process. Most excellent! :)
Hooray
Great film, so many tips and knowledge imparted. Awesome restoration, beautiful results and a useful hatchet too! There's something primal when using an axe. Mahalo for sharing! : )
Cheers brother
Absolutely amazing, I love how you encourage people to do their own things when it comes to aesthetics, all too often it seems like so many makers are becoming "puritans" "My way is the best way" etc. beautiful job by the way
“The only way” never lead to trying something new. Do what makes sense. Follow the principles, but forge your own path
Good job 👍
This should be on the Masterclass channel.
Well that’s damn kind of you
Lotsa good learned advice in this one. Thank ye Mr. Brett!
Cheers bruv
Great video and very well explained, thank you and Happy New year
Thanks Brian
Great straightforward explanations. Thank you. Look forward to your next video!
Cheers
Great tips. Cheers Brett and thanks for sharing another great video. Happy New Year from the U.K ;)
Thank ye
Good to see you again
With so many sledge and axe heads laying around, this video inspires me to finally bring those tools back to life. Also those files look amazing; is there really such a thing as tool addiction?
There really is
Brother Brett, as always I loved the video sir and I really would love to get to hang out one day and just watch the master at work!! Hoping you have a great new year and keep up the wonderful work brother!!
With all the goofiness at the beginning I wasn't expecting much. But this turned out to be the best ax video I have seen. Very informative. Cut thru the BS. Thanks.
Well thanks! I learned tons from my buddy @bastionhead, who’s a wealth of tool handling wizardry. He taught me pretty much everything I know.
That was a corker of a condensed knowledge axe fitting thingy, brillaint stuff! Plus nowt better than bringing old tools back to life and then making other people really happy with a gift!
Heck yeah!
Great work. Really glad you didn’t needlessly mirror polish the entire axe head like so many tool restorers.
Nah. Gets rid of that wonderful age
Loved the video and hearing you drop the knowledge. I see a tool handle in my future
Loved this one, full of tips and pointers.
Thank you as always Rob
Love that sharpening technique!
It’s so damn brilliant
@@skullandspade and now I need an axe!!
Another great vid, Brett! And a great tool save to boot.
Thank ye!
Even though I don't understand much of the language, I was able to understand the very important tips from the video😄
…Oh, and Happy New Year! Brett!⭐️Let's make some stuff together in 2022!🤟
Please!!!
Nice work and well explained. I am definitely going to try the towel trick for sharpening.
It’s so damn good.
You really are a great instructor.
Well, that’s damn kind of you
Very nice work 🔨👍😊
Thank ye
Love this style of video 👍🏻 Happy new year mate.
Cheers mate
I like it. Mighty nice vid good Sir. Scenery out there has to be awesome yo!
It sure is nice when it’s not 130 degrees
This is great! 😄
You should do more stuff with Rachel too, you both have good chemistry.
Cheers Billiam
Love your videos brother keep up the good work🤙🏽very entertaining and inspiring
Thanks!
Love the detail. So many good bits of info on this one. Totally stealing the rag trick! Thanks Brett. Well done.
Thanks brother man
Great video sir. Definitely puts my mind at easy about attempting this.
Get to it Francisco
Got a dozen of these things in the scrap bucket , might have a go at cleaning them up . :)
Get to it
Really great to see you again in the New Year. Spent the last few days building a base for an anvil and thought of your tips often. Happy New Year.
Thank ye!
I use pine tar on the area of the haft that goes into the eye of the axe and on the wedge. It seals out all moisture and isn't as useless as wood glue when rehafting is required.
You make it look so easy. I have a old axe with broken handle laying in my car that i want to restore. This video gonna help me. Thnx.
I'l give you...hmm. alotta-points.hehe
Happy New year 🇳🇴🇺🇸🎆💥
Hooray!
Great work and great information in this one!
Yussssss thank ye
Nice work Brett I found this really interesting happy new year my friend 👍🏻
Thank ye
Such a great tutorial. I was just thinking I needed to get an actual edge on my own axe, now I have a method to try out to get it. Happy New Year and thanks for sharing!
Get to it!
I like this style of video. Nice job!
Thank ye
Great work, I really appreciate all of the detail you go into and how you explain your process and practice.
Thank you Daniel!
Cap'n, it's good to see this much personality from you again. Don't get me wrong, the quiet work videos have their place, but it feels like a return to your older format. How's Skully and Miss Ix?
They’ve been traveling during the holiday months…you know them
@@skullandspade The shop skulls deserve a break. I hope thembsafe travels, and hopefully they show up in a drawer somewhere.
Sooo much better than all those videos were they put form above function
Good
Awesome work, I think I have a few axe heads that need handles. Just need to find the correct wood!
Lots of great tips to give this cute little ax an easy new life. Many thanks, have a great new year
Thanks Serge
Very nice work cap'n. I think there was a glitch in the matrix though I heard you mention vinegar twice 😮😎
Hahahah
Gonna use that rag trick to sharpen a couple hatchets i got at my grandparents. Things can barely cut butter, so lord knows they need something done
Yusssssss
Great tip Brett Happy New Year to you and yours
Thanks Dave
Excellent work/video. Salute!
Thanks ye!
Another great restore El Capitán!!!
Cheers Andrew
@@skullandspade cheers Brett
Sweet little hatchet, and a good followup video to your old ones!
Thank ye. We’ve come a long way
This is my comment to appease the great algorithm
Praise them
This video is awesome, thank you for the tips!
I've been thinking of getting my gf a hatchet to restore for her birthday and this video was SUPER helpful! Thank you very much!
Hooray!!!
Brett! Happy New Year! Recently finished restoring a handful of axes and hatches and didn't know what I was doing. Now I know what I should have done. Thanks!
In case of interest, to my limited knowledge:
* The engraved "Made in W. Germany" has been used on products in the 70s and 80s.
* An axe for the German market wouldn't have an imperial weight mark, which suggest it's a export product to - most likely - England from where it probably traveled to the states via container ship or butt crack.
Butt crack! Hahah, great info NIK
Thanks for the information and inspiration given out. Keep up the great work!
Yussssss
Спасибо большое! Очень информативно! Много полезной информации!
Yo Brett ! Thanks a lot for all those details, you rock !
Yussssss
Happy New Year Cap'n
And to you Inside Alan
Happy New Year Brett. Great video. Very nice restoring job. It turned out very beautiful. Hopefully you get great use out of it for many years to come my friend. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Forge on. Weld on. Fab on. Keep restoratioing. Keep making. God bless.
Thanks as always Jared
@@skullandspade your very welcome.
Very nice.
Thanks as always Raynola
Best👍
Yus
Sweet!
Thanks
You guys are gonna need all the fire wood you can get. It's gonna be cold winter in the desert this year. Even my part of the desert is freezing right now.
It’s frickin cold
Iltis or Oxhead are a common German axe seen in North America. West Germany means you can accurately determine its age. 1949 to 1990
There we go
Excellent job Bret, just wondering why it was marked with 1 1/2 and not in metric for weight?
I have no idea. Weird right?
My mild research shows that after WW2 West Germany was controlled by the USA, Great Britain, and France. Great Britain still more or less used imperial measures at that time as did the USA. I'm guessing there were about 20 years of West German made products based on imperial measurements. I found vintage West German made scales and tape measures online in pounds and inches respectively. Interesting, to say the least.
@@nathanjohansen7169 thanks for your input….very interesting.
Lot of great info here, Brett. Quick question, when you sharpen the ax head with various rag thicknesses it creates a curve. I'm used to straight angles on knives, but I'm sure there's a reason for the curve? Thanks!
Very slight curve, but remember, axes and hatchets put a ton of strain on the cutting edge, and pushes the material away. Whereas a knife is slicing through. If the faces/cutting edge of these tools were dead flat/straight, they’d get stuck if they didn’t make it all the way through a cut. The curves and swells on a typical axe serve multiple purposes other than aesthetics.
@@skullandspade brilliant - just what I was hoping for! Thanks for taking the time out to explain that. :) And give my best to the Gaeries and snakes!
Can you explain why pounding the bottom of the handle with the head hanging down puts the head on tighter instead of making the head fall off?
Seems counterintuitive, but it works. The kinetic energy from the strike goes into the handle, but the heavier steel does some amazing physics magic and stays in place. This, handle goes down, head bumps up.
Thanks, I have always been curious about this.
Just watched Steve botch a few handles. Perhaps you can teach him a few things.
What do you put on the head to keep the head from rusting again?
Oil. Pretty much any kind. You can keep the sheath piled up as well, and leaving that on the axe when not in use helps
@@skullandspade thank you. I just got a hatchet for my woodworking and it always pays to care for your tools correctly. You’re helping me a lot in doing that.
Okay! You taught me that soft shoulders are good for hatchet handles, as well as for your Gma Lola. But, I may be partially responsible for teaching you to “do whatever the hell you want.” 😘 Mom
Thanks mom 🖤
I absolutely know better, and I may get flamed, but ... I have smacked the butt of an axe with another tool to drive a it like a wedge, shouldn't do it, and I would never recommend it, but if you ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO, use a chunk of wood, much safer
Whatever works for you
Come down, its only a cheap old hatchet. Here in Germany they are worth nothing.
Cheap old hatchet worth nothing - sounds like you missed the point of the video.
I’ll be sure to only use tools deemed worthy by the CZcams comment section from now on. 👍🏻
Whole lot of innuendo in there, buddy. I'd like to think you could build a hatchet and make an interesting video without working blue. Maybe I expected too much of you...
Not a fan of oiling your wood then?
This one gets it ^