I would like to try this on an old double head axe. Can you tell me where you buy the flap wheels and polishing compound and buffing wheels. Thanks

When I get bored, or angry, or I just having anxiety, I polish metal things. It brings my mind back in tune, the Ax head Looks beautiful

I found my great uncles axe after it sat in a (not too watertight) shed for nearly 30 years. I used it to chop some stump roots as it was - rusty and blunt. I came online to see what could be done, and saw your video...wow.....phenomenal job...great video thanks for posting

I admire the patience and attention to detail involved, but even that beautiful mirror finish can't distract from those flaws in the edge. Of course it's easy for me to be a Monday morning quarterback. Keep up the beautiful work.

Excellent job getting that mirror finish. This is the best video so far I've found on the subject recently.

A tip: use different angles for each sandpaper grit size. You can immediately see if you're done getting out the scratches of the courser grit.

That’s how it’s done! Brilliantly chilled approach. Thank you for the guidance

Sir, before a preventable accident happens to you, please anchor your polish-grinder appropriately. Other than that drawback, great job produced and great video overall.

That axe is a beaut. Thank you for your time and effort in making the video so we could learn from you.

most competition loggers have axes all polished up and razor sharp.good save on that head.

Wow, you Polish people know how to make a Axe shine!!!!

That's beautiful. You did a wonderful job on that. Thanks for sharing !

I have recently completely restored a couple of broad axes that were very badly rusted i started with a 9 inch grinder and worked down to grinding flap wheels and finally 1200 paper then buffing compound i found the finish you get depends on how much you are willing to sweat and your attention to detail. After all the hard work they are only ever going to be a wall hangers and i keep the mirror finish by spraying it with a clear metal lacquer - Rust Guard - Clear Guard I found it with the metal protecting spray cans at a hardware store here in Australia I spray it on all my shiny wall mounted saws guns and axes sprayed the wife's silver platter over 10 years ago and its still perfect. Keep shining Cheers.

This Is the video Ive been looking for, finally, thank you. You do awesome work.

With each change of grit go at right angles. Makes it easy to see scratches that still have to come out.

Brilliant video, especially when you say how long it takes. So many vids never say how long things take..could be 5 mins or 5 hrs!! Inspired me to go to a boot sale, bought a rusty old club hammer for a quid with no handle. Polished it like a mirror, and made a new fat oak handle. Dead chuffed....many thanks for a great video

very nice finish... inspired me to take some of my resto projects to a new level👍

That's sweet to be able to finish metal like that. The demonstration was great.

Great Video Sir, Thank you very much for sharing it with us, I just followed your example and but a fantastic Mirror finish on my Becker BK2 and my Gransfor Bruks Axe

Great work! Looks fantastic!

Great job on cleaning up that axe head it looks great Cheers Tim from Wood 4 Nothing

Great video! I’ve been polishing some metals and this video gave me a good idea on how to get a shinier finish on my metal

bloody hell that amazing beautiful work

excellent video! Thank you for posting!

Finally, someone who understands the polishing makes it slide on wood better.

Great video & very impressive work

Merci! I now see where I went wrong I needed to sand more with higher grit paper before going to the buffing wheel. Guess another trip to Princess Auto

Wow! Thanks for the video. I have never polished anything before and now I know exactly what to do

Beautiful job buddy, thanks for video.

Nice job,looks great!

Excellent video very well done and explained. Thanks.

I just can`t beleive the shine you got on that axe Gilbert....your the best and again very patient....SALUT

Very well done. going to give this a try myself.

Looks great to me, Thanks for your valuable time.

Wow that's nice...great job man!!!

Beautiful work.

That's just absolutely amazing

This is so helpful. Thanks!

Awesome work

Thanks for the video great information :) .... I found a old rusty axe head in a field where I walk my dog I did some research and it's a minors deputy axe which makes sense as I live in a mining town in North East England (Northumberland) although the mine closed in the early 70s. I intend to restore it and donate to the local mining museum (woodhorn ashington) .. I have resorted a few rusty knifes but never a axe can't wait to get started. Picked up a few tips from this video thanks :)

Great video learned a more efficient way to buff old tools. I bolted my bench grinder to a scrap piece of MDF and keep it in place with a pair of C-clamps, no chasing.

Looks great! Bolt down that grinder.

Nice work!

I'm in love with that shine. 👍

Nice job, great video

That looks amazing

Great video! I liked and subscribed!

The axe head looks excellent.

Excellent job 👏

Nice, I have some golf clubs that I found stored in the shed and they are still oiled and shiny. Then I remembered 4 yrs ago I had cleaned the rust off, polished then oiled them.

Thank you for sharing your skills 🙏

Great job!

That is beautiful! Looks like chrome!

Beautiful man!!!!!

That is one hell of a polishing job

Wow! Learned a lot. Tks

great shine on that axe! (just kept wanting you to fix that wheel to the bench!).

I have watched many an axe restoration, but you sir, have "true grit". {:-D

Beautiful job 👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍 wow

that is sick awesome job

Beautiful shine, it looks like jewelery.

Looks great. Doing the same thing with some brackets off an olds 455. haven't got them quite than shiny. Hard to get a perfect mirror with cast iron.

That is awesome!

Very nice! Thank you very much!

Nice bro good work lot of experience you have, I am going to try at my old hammer.

great work!

Great job!! Now let's see the handle installation! :)

At 5:00 you are definitely correct as that happened to me this week! I thought I went over it good enough through 240 grit so when I hit it with 400 grit I found out that nope, all the lines were left and I had to go back down to 120 then 240 to correct it.

Excellent job

Woooow 😲 that is what I call Mirror polish 👏👏👏

Beautiful. Like a piece of jewelry. I imagine it would glide through wood with that smooth mirror polish. The only down side is one would be apprehensive to use their axe when it is so pretty & especially after all the time invested getting it to this point.

AMAZING JOB. I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND A WAY TO REPLICATE PATRICK BATEMAN'S AXE. THANK YOU!!!! BEAUTIFUL JOB!!!

Incredible 👍🏼

Belle job encore une fois 😉

very interesting and informative thanks for the video!!!!🍻🌿😜

Its so... beautiful.

Felicitaciones es una inspiración. Gracias.

Looks nice. Going to try it with my throwing axe.

I love it !!!

Very nice!

Great Job 👍👌👍👌

This dude knows what he's doing

beautiful job

Awesome man

Nice work buddy 👌

Most restoration videos on KZfaq don't do the mirror polish. I think that's a shame, nothing like a mirror polish on a tool. Good job!

Great job.

WOW! That thing is almost too nice to use!

Nice job!

Thanx for sparing us the noise 👍🇬🇧

Great job

Very nice work

Beautiful man

Brilliant !

Amazing!

Bert here great job bro

Nice Job.

Nice job. I too am a polishing junkie. Bolt that buffer down!

daaaammmmm , wheeeeew. niiice very nice

Great job, best I have seen. Please anchor down your equipment I know you want to make a good safety impression to the younger folks. Safety is the best policies when working with any tools and always with power tools. I hope you will make more videos. Thanks again.