IMPOSSIBLE 250 Year Old Colonial Rusty Hammer Restoration - Buried Under Ground Since The 1700's!

Why did you drill it out?

What's the stamp mark near the head .. 4 B ? Any idea what that means ?

KEREN 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Beautiful and very detailed work ✌🏻🌟🌟 ⚙️⚒️

Very nice!!!!👍👍🤠🤠🎯🎯

It's like cleaning an old coin: it's lost it's appeal.

Hated pretty much the entire video...all the effort and it looks shoddy at best. The handle base had a nub on it from not cutting it off from the lathe.

Very interesting, also because I got hold of a 1700's piece of iron 1 month ago. I've spoiled many a nicely-ages pieces before, but I'm NOT sanding any more. You could have used a metal brush on your grinder, which would have been a lot softer on your iron, while removing most of the rust.
Also, I find 1hour in Hydrochloric acid would have worked faster than 24h under current, but to each his own 🙂

Dont understand that electric rubbish.. get a grinder from 80 grit to 320. Then a compound to polish

How did you or someone find it? Were you metal detecting or something or just dug across it?

i think you can get a better one at Harbor Freight for $3.. i'm just sayin

Imagine that hummer used to kill how many people

Did not like this one.

I may be wrong, but that handle sure doesn't look like the right shape. I think it's maybe not going to be too comfortable for the hand.

Nice?, hmm yeah, but, that is not a restoration hammer, it is a renovation one. The percentage of changes has been tremendous, the design included

Try Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda rather than salt. Works great without pitting or damaging the metal

Waste of time , if you're not gonna restore it completely .....👎👎👎

Now I just want to see how tattered the gloves will get by the end 😂

looks nice except them big rust pits should have welded them

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sorta doubt that 250 number

I wish background music was not there its irritating

Cool piece but I didn’t like the handle at all

Check your countries history that's not 250years. The USA was forbidden to have tools by the Brits. Claw hammers were the advent of metal nails by blacksmiths. I'm guessing 80 years tops looking at that design.

The best part of this video is what you did not do Sir. You did not fill in the pits with a spot of weld or putty. To make it look new. You let the historic nature and age stand out. Thank You and HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Viene distrutto il bello dell'antico!!!🙉

Way too much! Should have converted/stopped the rust and put a period handle on it.
Completely took the history away!😢😢😢

Time is gold you espend very time for this but you can make 4 hammer

I have heard of this process. Though never saw it from beginning to end. Electricity de- rusting. Thanks.

I personally appreciate the fact that you restored this to as new condition. You didn’t just clean it up. Besides the fact that it is yours to do with as you please. Now you can work with it or show it off. Antiquarians be damned.

Nice work sir that look awesome 👍

Perfect 👌

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Awesome restoration!

That's actually a time capsule

Did you know that 250 yrs is a long time, 250 x 12 = 3000 months year 1777

So 1769!

Great job! Good you left some holes and cracks in there, not making it brand new 👍🏻

250 years old? I don't buy it. The way it looks it's obvious to anyone that the hammer is likely to be about 248 years old! 😎

I wasn’t sure at first, but that’s the hammer my great, great, great, grandfather lost when he was in New York.

I couldn't stop watching this video. What a great job.

Why do you think it's 250 years old?

250 years old WOW. I do not think that the hammers made today will last that long.

PERFECT!!!! 💯👍 CONGRATULATIONS!!!

All those iron fimhs on the wood? Pure waste! Ans then the lathe! You could have doen that with any block of iron, Get a blacksmith to save what is there, and let it getit hardened, too. Don't destroy an antique someone else made long bedore you were born and spent all that money on useless machines for this job. Take a course on how to work iron: far cheaper.

I recently cleaned up an old colonial belt axe head I found metal detecting. I used vinegar, it took all the rust off, it left a nice pinta on the axe.

I left it at that point, came out really great.

Too bad you didn’t take the extra few seconds to align the wedge with the hammer head direction. Other that that, it is a great restoration.