What are restorations but preservations of history, right? We like watching them for various reasons. In the arena of machinery we like them because we get to see the inner guts of different things that we have never seen taken apart before. In the realm of history we like to see things from the past that have been neglected brought back to working order and in some cases better looking than they were new. But what about the restoration of an object that has no moving parts? That’s the case here as the video claims its subject to be a 250-year old American colonial era hammer head. This one involves some science, some wood working, and elbow grease to take something tat was buried for centuries and make it nicer than it was new.
Some people like to joke about the “grandfather’s hammer” analogy were someone claims to have their grandfather’s hammer which is exactly as it was when he had it aside from the new head and handle.
In this case, the head gets saved and the handle gets made. We think that the whole process is great and employees technology from the modern era (electrolysis) and things that would have been used in the 1700s (files and rasps).
Satisfying!
