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Restoring a $2 garage sale vintage rust bucket of an axe and my grandfather's hewing hatchet starting with removing rust, removing the old handle, designing and carving a new wood handle, then going into the sharpening process. How to sharpen an axe with limited tools and skills? No problem, we've got a sharpening on a budget kit for you. I go through the whole sharpening process with no power tools needed, grinding back behind the pitting, flattening the back of the blade, then grinding the bevel of the axe using a file. The blade is sharpened with a series of paddles we can make ourselves from wetdry sandpaper cutoffs from an automotive shop. Then the honing process takes place with a strop. Rehandling the axe happens by using wood grain to our advantage and using a handful of marking tricks so you can work quickly and efficiently in the handling process. Green wood carving is so much faster and more efficient when you've got a sharp axe, but you don't have to break the bank to get there. For these two hatchets, I have a grand total of $56 tools and supplies and the carving knife and sharpening setup will serve me for a whole lifetime of tool use. Citric acid is an incredibly cheap, effective rust removal tool, and restoring old axes and hatchets is a super fun way to get into a high end tool fairly cheaply.

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