Axe Restoration - Plumb Permabond

[@alanpilkington6223]

I'm a Plumb fan from wayback and have a collection of them, including some Permabonds. I think you've done a fine job, well done. It reminds me of a 4lb Permabond I bought new at a hardware store in Australia around 1970, which still has its original hickory handle and has given sterling service over the years. Keep up the good work.

[@ivanstiles7030]

Very nice restoration.

[@richardsilva-spokane3436]

Fantastic job! I can find no serious fault in your processes. Thanks for your fruitful efforts 👍

[@prodigalrestorations]

Thanks! Still just trying to learn more and more as I go

[@Dx20xygen7]

Damn any lumberjack would be proud to own such a pretty, sturdy tool. Great job man

[@prodigalrestorations]

Thanks so much. I appreciate it.

[@jaskiniamestwa]

Hey, thats not a bad one! I’d like to see how it looks after a year or two of regular use. It has potential to gain some character..

[@prodigalrestorations]

Thank you very much! Yea I hope that epoxy holds up.

[@SMcCaskill]

Use a blow dryer to remove air bubbles from the epoxy resin. You're doing good!

[@prodigalrestorations]

Thanks for the tip! Off camera I tried using a heat gun but it was moving the resin around too much in that little eye. But maybe a blow dryer would be better.

[@user-ho7ml1tc6g]

Видно зону закалки лезвия.

[@Pillazo]

Suprising how much rust came off of the blade!

[@mathuparrish6798]

Awesome! I think it turned out really good

[@prodigalrestorations]

Thank you so much!

[@townieoutdoors8121]

Just use a wedge on the next one it's plenty sturdy , you can o ly get better from this point .

[@prodigalrestorations]

Thanks for the advice! Yea I usually use just wedges. But I was trying to recreate the permabond effect. If I had to do it over again though, I would have probably just went with the wedge.

[@townieoutdoors8121]

Have you tried a file to sharpen your axes ? I find that the easiest and fastest way to get really sharp bit

[@prodigalrestorations]

Yea I have. It works well. I think I did the file methods on a couple of my videos after this one. Thanks

[@nobuckle40]

Nice work! You really did justice to that old axe head. It's so good to see something "useless" being cared for and put back in to service. Keep it up. BTW, your intro and outro are killer. What did you use to make you video intro? Love it!

[@prodigalrestorations]

Thank you so much! I used Adobe after effects and premiere for the intro. I did some rotoscoping and stuff like that. I plan on doing a short soon of behinds the scenes on my intro.

[@nobuckle40]

@@prodigalrestorations Thanks, that will be really cool!

[@ctrip34]

What epoxy did you use? I have an old hatchet that I'm tryin to reuse the handle. There are some gaps in the front and back of the eye. I was thinkin of doin like a cross wedge but idk about that.

[@prodigalrestorations]

It's an epoxy meant for fixing fiberglass or wood handles to axes or hammers. I believe I found it on Amazon.

[@einufo]

Pretty nice result! I like the tape template to fit the handle. Is it common to take resin to fix the handle at plumb axes? Greetings Tino

[@prodigalrestorations]

Thanks! It was for a while. Where they used no wedge and just used a red epoxy to fix the head on to the handle. I think they still do that with their hammers and stuff.

[@joeymclaughlin1264]

Love this axe! Looks like the real deal original. Where'd you come up with that Dreadnaught sticker? One of the coolest axe names in history, I think.

[@prodigalrestorations]

Thank you! I did some tedious photoshop work to blow up the old dreadnaught logo then had a company print me stickers. I have them on eBay and linked them in the description if you are interested.

[@jeannewallace5383]

very nice , man do I have some rusty old junk you ought to work on .lol

[@prodigalrestorations]

Thanks! That would be cool. What type of stuff do you have?

[@djbarks]

I accept your apology...but what was the background noise? You have intrigued me!

[@prodigalrestorations]

Thanks lol. Someone was replacing a metal door. So they were using an angle grinder to make it fit.

[@ledugerio]

😃😃💪💪👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏🙋🙋

[@prodigalrestorations]

🙂😁