{"id":2347,"date":"2016-02-14T20:49:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T19:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2025-01-28T13:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T12:23:12","slug":"20160214-restoring-a-hewing-axe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/?p=2347","title":{"rendered":"2016\/02\/14 \u2013 Restoring a hewing axe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For quite a while I had this hewing axe laying around, which needed a big cleanup.
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So I started with the head, putting it in my electrolysis bath.
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After 4 hours.
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After 24 hours.
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Cleaned it up with a wire brush, and dipped it up side down back in a clean bath for the top part.
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The head is completely clean now.
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Here all the parts together. The pin is also cleaned, and now it’s time to continue with the original handle.
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Before and after picture of the original handle after loads of sanding.
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All parts cleaned up and ready to be assembled.
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The pin I slightly bend to create some pressure since there was some play in the eye.
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The handle received 4 layers of oil, and now ready to hang it on the wall… But the wall is quite full already..
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After some puzzling around, I was able to hang it on the wall as well. It’s hanging about 1 meter \/ 3 feet above my left shoulder, for the viewers right.
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For quite a while I had this hewing axe laying around, which needed a big cleanup. So I started with the head, putting it in my electrolysis bath. After 4 hours. After 24 hours. Cleaned it up with a wire brush, and dipped it up side down back in a clean bath for the top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diy-projects","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4627,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions\/4627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}