Thread: Is it worth restoring

This is an interesting question as it really depends on your feelings and not actually a monetary value.

Will you be using it after you restore it or will it sit in a display case?

Gday Brad. Maybe just a gentle refurbish only. Once something like this is restored (to pristine or thereabouts condition) then its past is gone. With a refurbish any chips/cracks/splits etc remain, only cleaner looking. Put it in a small frame above your bench to remind you your dad/grandfather once used it & used it well.

I think that I'd like to use it. Although I don't have any real use for it, I mostly do turning. I don't remember my grandfather as he died when I was 2, but now 38 years later I have found myself more intrested with the hand tools. I already use his 24" woodie to help flatten some slabs I cut, and like the idea of using some of his tools.
I think that I'll repair the socket, and polish the blade to a useable point but not perfect. I have some nice paperbark blanks which I think I turn into a nice handle with a copper ring at the top. Any sugestions about the lenght of the handle. I have some titans (i was given yersterday) that require new handles might make them all match.
SWMBO already frowns when I bring home more rust.
Is this turning to the darkside??

Hi. I did a bit of cleanup on a similar gouge ... minus the mushrooms.
It was just from ebay, and got wire-wheeled and a grind of the bevel.

There are other ways to remove the rust.

Originally Posted by Brad G

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SWMBO already frowns when I bring home more rust.
Is this turning to the darkside??

I am far from an expert, but I am tending to think, Yep.

Heres the progression so far.
Hard know it's the same tool. And pictured with some others that need a little TLC. Make the 1" Titan next to it seem small.

Which side of the cannel was the bevel originally ground? Am it looking at your before and after pics wrong to think you might have ground it differently? If you turned it from a firming gouge to a scribing gouge, you're doing it a disservice. The harder steel ('edge steel') will be on the side opposite to that originally ground, the 'back steel'. . My grandad used to work for Marples in the 20s & 30s as a metal founder, and he told me that early in my woodworking efforts.


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I haven't done anything to the bevel, it is in cannel, but don't know if it was factory that way. So far I only fixed the socket which I don't plan to take any further execpt maybe a little more squaring of the top, but that depends on the look when I put a handle on it.