 Found this a while ago, and it's just been hanging around. I think I need to do something with it Looks like it's in pretty good shape other than the rust on the outside at this point Kind of have a choice to make So I've got the the metal Basically down to a smooth area But there's all these little divots from the rust that was eating into the metal Now if I grind it down to all those divots are gone, it'll look beautiful and shiny and smooth But I'll be taking off so much material. I'm going to be losing it kind of a significant amount Like I'm going to be reducing the weight by a bunch And uh Yeah, it's just going to lose a lot of metal So I think I'm just going to leave those I'm not worried about me. I'll take a little bit more off But I'm not going to worry about getting all these little divots It's kind of cool. Anyway, doesn't that look cool? Yeah, it's like smooth on the surface. It's just got all these little divots in it And the divots should be fine. Whoa This thing was just outside for years Uh got salt water on it. Yeah, it was a mess All right, so the choice here really comes down to do I want it to be prettier or more more functional And yes, I want it to be more functional There's something beautiful about them Get the middle here. I'll just No, I'm making a Inside sander This is just motor oil. I think that is pretty good Now for a handle. This is a very hard piece of wood This is from a tree that fell over recently And it was termite damage. This section looks fine though Well, then sir, that looks like it'll fit Going with this Straight Power planer power planer or hand planer Hand planer. You want me to do the hand planer? All right All right, I'll put this against my front door thing here I can Clean up against that All right, first I need to knock off all these I do this just by eye without screwing it up Let's see you got Which one's better? I'm gonna make this thinner All right, bellichicks you tell me if anything start everything looks like I'm screwed it up Is this what you spent the last two days working on? Man nice mittens That's one fancy dress All right I don't want to try to circular saw the rest of the way through here partly because my circular saw needs a rest and needs cool down and Trying to get it lined up perfectly all the way through will be kind of tricky I could Take my axe head there and knock it in And hope that it splits well although if it Could mess up the whole thing. You know what? I'm gonna get a sawzall and just I should be able to keep it in that groove and just finish off the cut All right, the rest of that went through pretty easy. There's the side piece over there And now we can start planing And a draw knife would be sure useful right now But I don't have one and I don't feel like making one just for this This is the blade for a hand planer And we're gonna get it nice and sharp Oh, don't put your foot in here Let's Get the bark off. You know the peel it off No, this bark Sticks pretty well You want to get the bark off? Where's your machete? Can you what can you what on the flat part this thing which is the best carving implement I've ever had It was originally four feet long total sword. I made a long time ago And uh, it was so good And I started using it as an axe and eventually broke it Actually the piece that that broke off I made a short sword with just became a really good carving tool When I made it I had access to a kiln That had electronic temperature control So I could heat treat the metal like perfectly I haven't sharpened this thing in like Over a decade What to do around this not Maybe I just leave a fatter spot there I have to be careful with this because it's a lot easier to take material off than it is to put material on Sure, this is gonna be a tight fit It's a little bit too used to the length the first axe I've ever used it actually feels long enough testing it I don't have a tree. I'm ready to cut down right now, but when I do I'm using this