How To Install Axe Head On Handle

Jarrett Searpon · Saturday, March 12, 2022

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Helko axe head restoration

« on: Dec 19, 2022, 03:22:40 AM »

Yesterday in the postal service I received an axe head from lowtech ( many cheers ). It needs a bit of TLC. I take never restored an axe head and then this volition be fun for all.

hither is a link to the original posting

http://forum.multitool.org/alphabetize.php/topic,40974.0.html

so outset off hither it is upon arrival. Micra for measurement sake.

here is the flip side

and into an oil bath to loosen some rust upwards

after a couple of hours and a adept wipedown with a rag...

From the marks i can make out information technology is a Helko make axe caput - made in Germany. Not sure at to the appointment range on it. There are some numbers looks like above the name and a clover type mark on the flip side. It appears to been green at some point every bit at that place is green paint on information technology.

Re: Helko axe head restoration

« Reply #1 on: Dec xix, 2022, 03:28:33 AM »

Later on looking up some axe restoration videos on youtube looks like i started out wrong. The concensus says to soak the head in a rust removal solution..vinegar is mentioned quite a bit as is CLR- a kitchen lime/rust removal liquid. CLR seems a bit harsh and $$. Vinegar it is!

and in for a good couple of days with the hat on..vinegar is rank!

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« Reply #2 on: December nineteen, 2022, 09:25:xvi AM »

Great thread mate

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Re: Helko axe head restoration

« Answer #4 on: December 19, 2022, xi:26:43 AM »

Looks like the stinky vinegar is doing a right expert job.

rust bits falling off the axe head. After i go off work i'll go by and pick up some dobie or scotch brite scouring pads.

Re: Helko axe head restoration

« Reply #five on: December nineteen, 2022, 03:52:24 PM »

Thats pretty cool. Its ane mean looking axe head.

I saw the original motion picture when it withal had a handle and it made me wonder if the handle was on backwards or by design. I would recollect y'all'd want the boom puller pointed down toward the hand and handle, but in the pic it was pointing up. Seems like it would be easier to pull a smash and use information technology crow bar style. No thought just that'southward my few cents.

Re: Helko axe head restoration

« Reply #6 on: December xix, 2022, 04:27:24 PM »

Aye, I know wat you mean. Depends which fashion the taper is in the eye though I suppose

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Re: Helko axe caput restoration

« Answer #7 on: December xix, 2022, 11:24:42 PM »

Here is what i came domicile to today. Vinegar does a really good job at rust removal. Might add that information technology is cheap and readily available, stinks to loftier heaven though.

Went past Dwelling house Depot and picked upwardly some scotch bright pads and some high dust paper. Not sure if i want to use the grit newspaper still.

After some scrubbing with a scotch pad... most 10 minutes or so of elbow grease...beagles ran away from the horrible stink.

not too bad for a twenty hour soak in vinegar. Think i'll let it soak a bit more.

Re: Helko axe head restoration

« Respond #eight on: December 19, 2022, 11:29:thirty PM »

That's coming upwards a treat mate

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Re: Helko axe head restoration

« Respond #ix on: December nineteen, 2022, eleven:l:33 PM »

Very nice chore Pacu

That'southward in really proficient condition and looks like it won't take a lot of work to sharpen information technology

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Re: Helko axe head restoration

« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2022, 11:53:xi PM »

Very practiced progress pics. We'll demand a performance sit-in video when it's done too.

Re: Helko axe head restoration

« Reply #11 on: December 21, 2022, 12:25:55 AM »

from this

to this

now back to the tub for an oil soak for a while. Thanks for the within tip on keeping information technology rust free after the vinegar bath sparky415

Re: Helko axe head restoration

« Reply #13 on: December 21, 2022, 02:01:54 AM »

I'm kind of excavation that hook hammer butt

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Re: Helko axe head restoration

« Answer #fifteen on: December 21, 2022, 04:18:13 PM »

prob heading out for the holidays merely adjacent week....

i. gotta find a proper handle - hang information technology. I've read things about putting beeswax on the handle to get in less slippery.

2. sharpen it...i've sharpened axes in scouts simply want to do this 1 justice. All the same researching how to do a skilful job here.

three. right now i've got the helko soaking in rem oil. This has been an interesting trivial project.

hither is an idea to run past yall... Instead of letting the axe head sit down in stagnant vinegar de-rustifing ( not a real word ) i came upwards with maybe using an airstone assembly from an aquarium to motility the vinegar effectually in a tub.

like this but instead of water use vinegar solution..

or form information technology would take to be done on a porch outside to keep the wonderful aromatics at bay.

Re: Helko axe caput restoration

« Reply #16 on: December 21, 2022, 06:53:22 PM »

Looking good mate.

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Re: Helko axe head restoration

« Respond #17 on: December 22, 2022, 11:50:eighteen AM »

Information technology´s skillful to see this head come back to life.

I am, too thinking the caput was upside downwardly, the handle clearly wasn´t teh start i on information technology and saturday in teh head neither direct nor really fitting.

My blood brother mentioned that this Axe might be a German army (Bundeswehr) Axe like it was carried on Motor vehicles or 1 from the ex-GDR "Volksarmee", seems both carried Axes similar that on their vehicles.

I just googled Helko Axes and they seem to be withal producing Axes in Wuppertal, Germany (A city less known than Solingen, but nearby and producing very adept cutlery and steel products for thursday least few hundred years)

Their American site is hither:

http://www.helkonorthamerica.com/

As they are a Western High german manufacturer, i approximate nosotros tin can dominion them ouut for equipping the ormer German democratic republic, making your Axe most likely a Bundeswehr item.

I found them for auction at a german language Surplus-shop.
Here you tin go an idea of the original handle shape:

http://world wide web.raeer.com/shopexd.asp?id=20141

Re: Helko axe head restoration

« Reply #nineteen on: December thirty, 2022, 04:23:28 PM »

finding a handle for this is harder than i thought.

simply a tad less than 2 cm across, and 4 cm long

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« Respond #20 on: Dec xxx, 2022, 04:29:29 PM »

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Re: Helko axe caput restoration

« Reply #21 on: Dec 30, 2022, 04:33:43 PM »

Caput for the wood, detect a dead tree with a straight branch, accept your axe and chop thro.... oh - it hasn't got a handle has it

i'll employ my teeth

i think i establish a handle at house handle company. at iv bucks i'll risk information technology.

Re: Helko axe head restoration

« Reply #23 on: December 30, 2022, 04:44:53 PM »

Head for the woods, find a expressionless tree with a direct branch, have your axe and chop thro.... oh - it hasn't got a handle has it

Sounded like a good advice though.

Works for hammers

Still

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Re: Helko axe caput restoration

« Reply #24 on: January xvi, 2022, 08:15:42 PM »

Head for the woods, observe a expressionless tree with a directly branch, accept your axe and chop thro.... oh - it hasn't got a handle has it

this is pert near the way to go. Subsequently finding nothing shut to the size head opening i need i'll just make my own out of a hickory bike barrow handle.
Time to put woodcarving merit badge to some use.

This 1 i ordered from handle company was non big enough to fill all spaces in the head.

So using my Hunter XT saw i cut downwards the handle to a lenght that felt correct.

At present to first removing material and and shaping the handle.

Re: Helko axe caput restoration

« Reply #25 on: January 16, 2022, 08:24:07 PM »

It's a shame the store bought handle didn't fit
Squeamish looking bit of hickory

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Re: Helko axe caput restoration

« Reply #26 on: January 16, 2022, 08:44:55 PM »

It's a shame the store bought handle didn't fit
Squeamish looking bit of hickory

Took a while for the XT to cut thru information technology besides.

THis weekend i'll go find a proper wood rasp to assist in removal of forest. I'll prob society some of those round wedges to secure the head on when finished.

Re: Helko axe head restoration

« Reply #27 on: January 16, 2022, 08:59:28 PM »

The air stone idea in the vinegar sounds similar information technology would work to me. Maybe not a lot more effective over soak, scrub repeat though.

On the next one you do, endeavor electrolysis. It's a very sympathetic mode to remove rust off old tools.

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Re: Helko axe head restoration

« Reply #28 on: Jan xvi, 2022, 09:04:54 PM »

I found an ancient axe-head, obviously paw made throughout. I put an edge on information technology, but left the rust patina equally a attestation to information technology's age. I mounted information technology on a hickory handle, but it kept slipping off. That's when I discovered the tapered pigsty, and the handle was installed the wrong fashion thru it. They were a lot smarter back then, than I was giving them credit for.

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Re: Helko axe head restoration

« Answer #29 on: January xvi, 2022, 09:20:43 PM »

Stew,
I have read near using electrolysis,
I idea near doing it myself as I accept various car chargers etc scattered effectually so the bits shouldn't cost me anything, any tips?

Landrew,
Pictures delight Mate

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