50 cent rusty masonry hammer - OLD TOOL RESTORATION

I went to see if a local fleamarket had some cool old tools for restoration projects, which it rarely does. I was surprised to find this beautiful old masonry hammer only for 50 cents. I've seen people ask a lot more for similar ones. The handle was not realy staying on well so I needed to fix that. The rust on this was was so thin I was sure is was not hiding any stamps so I went straight to very coarse belt and sanded the flat parts down. After This I used a dremel with coarse sanding drum to sand the other areas.The I moved to finer grit (around 150) first on the belt and then with the dremel and by hand. I've previously determined 150 grit is fine enough for good polish with the following method. After this I continued to use my 2 scouring pad disks on angle grinder for rough polishing. This was followed by Polishing wheel and metal polish compound. This resulted to a nice mirror finnish you can see ont hte video. The procees took e couple of hours in total. The handle was in fairly good shape so I decided to re-use it. it only needed a wedge and a clean up. I put the handle on a leather and sanded it down. with multiple grits from really rough to 1200 grit for a nice smooth look. The I sew the end of the handle off as it was in bad condition and I wanted to get rid of the nail or whatever was used as a wedge previously. I decided to go for cross sheped wedge pattern, which I've never tried before. I cut a cross to teh top of the handle and cut out some small wedges to fill it. However my wedges wede mafe on too soft wood which resulted in a litlte uneven pattern.as I had to put a lot of small wedges in there instead of 2. After polishing the end it turned out looking quite alright and my "fail" was only cosmetic so I was pretty happy with the result. Lastly I oiled the handle with linseed oil to protect the handle. Once again thanks for watching! Please let me know your thought in the comment and leave like/dislike. That helps me make better content in the future. I you would like to see some more, go ahead and subscribe and turn on the notifications. Music: Beyond - Whitesand SOME OF MY TOOLS: POWER FILE: https://amzn.to/2URHvPq CHUCK NORRIS’ TOOTHBRUSH: https://amzn.to/2YfXUj2 CORDLESS DRILL: https://amzn.to/2Wois77 MY FILMING GEAR: MAIN CAMERA: https://amzn.to/2JvtKox MAIN TRIPOD: https://amzn.to/2OlpYgn MICROPHONE: https://amzn.to/2OlpYgn VIDEO LIGHTS: https://amzn.to/2FpJDaB MAIN LENS: https://amzn.to/2Fm8yMk CINEMATIC LENS: https://amzn.to/2TmNdHH WIDE ANGLE LENS: https://amzn.to/2U7iJha GOPRO: https://amzn.to/2U3eqU3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBSCRIBE ▶▶▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf_s... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Restoration playlist▶ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVIxIjRNxFv5VRUXt66VzBxOys1GpmBp4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------