This week i tackle the restoration of an rusty old hammer i found discarded in a quarry that closed down around 40 years ago so i can only assume it belonged to one of the old engineers that worked there once upon a time.

Its a pretty simple restoration job but very satisfying. First thing to do was remove the old and extremely deteriorated handle this was done by drilling a couple of large holes down each side to release a bit of the pressure from the old wedges then a few blows with the hammer and chisel finish the job off and im left with a very rusty hammer head ready for its rust removal treatment.

To remove the rust i used the old favorite on this channel deox c, After its bath you can see that the steel is completely free of rust and can now be worked on properly.

I broke out the belt sander and ground all the faces flat and and rounded the edges off and removed any chips on the steel. I could have stopped at this stage and put a new handle on but i wanted to go the extra mile so mirror polish it is ;).

I put a buffing wheel on the pillar drill and used a high cutting emery compound to remove all the sanding marks and leave a mirror finish on the steel which i think you'll agree looks fabulous!

Once it was all polished i wanted to add a little bit of contrast between the rough surface i left and the smooth polished surface so i used a bluing chemical to oxidize the surface and turn it black and it really adds the contrast i was looking for.

At this stage i was now happy with the hammer head so i moved onto rasping a new handle into shape, once a nice tight fit was created i knocked in a nice hardwood wedge then locked this into place with a further 2 steel wedges going perpendicular to the wooden wedge this locks the handle on for good.

Then i coated the full hammer with a liberal coat of danish oil and left it to soak in while i tidied up the workshop. Once the excess was buffed off im left with a gorgeous hammer that hopefully will last a long long long time!

Thank you for watching and i hope you enjoyed this restoration as much as you've enjoyed my other videos.


A new addition to my videos from now on will be a water mark and my channel name popping up in random places throughout the video as im getting rather tired of people reuploading my content as their own i hope you guys understand.

If you like what you see and have any ideas for the channel or would even like to donate something to restore to the channel please get in touch. :)

And as usual if you liked the video please like share and subscribe and help the channel grow.

If you would like to help support the channel you can find my patreon account here   / rrcrestoration  

For business inquiries [email protected]

More videos can be found here    / @rrcrestoration  

#Restoration #Hammer#Rusty

Really Random Channel

Perfect Rusty Old Hammer Restoration