I have never worried about it before but I picked up a couple of rusty axes off ebay (DB Kelly Flint and DB Sager Chemical)the other day and had to use navel jelly to get them cleaned up. Has anyone ever forced a patina on their axes to prevent rusting?
Mustard, Ketchup, Gun Blue, etc?
I know folks do this with knives all the time but seems like an axe may be a little different?
"With an ax, you can build a life. With a stove, you can boil water. That is if nothing breaks and you don't run out of fuel." -Samuel Hearne
I have done the gun blue on an adz and a broad axe that I found along the foundation of my Grandma’s house. They were getting ready to sell the acreage and I went hunting like never before.
My Grandpa’s family farmstead the place back in 1868. They were much pitted so I shot blasted (not sand blast) them and then blued. Now I need to get some handles on them.
I want to build a shadow box for them and my 1817 Common Rifle that also came from the farm.
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