AMAZING Rusty Cleaver Restoration with Oak Handle

Hey if you want to support me, you can become my patreon or invite me for a virtual beer: Paypal: Patreon: I found the cleaver that I am restoring in this video in the cellar of a friend’s construction site. A 400-year-old house is being renovated on the construction site and I was able to discover some treasures from former days in the cellar. My friend is happy when they will be given a second life and all this stuff won’t end up on the junk. The shape of the cleaver is very swingy and the many dents on the upper edge indicate that a butcher once worked a lot with the cleaver. A hammer was certainly also used to drive the cleaver through more solid structures with more force. The dents and dings in the upper area suggest this. The handle is past its prime, the wood is rotten and broken and is only held together by duct tape. I have to make a new handle here. For the new handle I have a nice piece of 400 year