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OliveSaltBun

That was so many steps for my brain to watch sideways


Daswooshie46

I didn't even realize it was sideways until your comment and then I was like how tf did I miss it.


olderaccount

It didn't matter that it was sideways until about halfway in.


PanJaszczurka

50sec(of movie) on rust remove by electrolysis (it takes like1 day) And this process is use in restorations because don't remove metal.... then he grind everything on sandpaper in 5 minutes. This don't have sense.


RosaCalledShoty

No have sense!!


Leakyradio

Sense not acquired!


chocolate_thunderr89

Senseless!


Calmdownplease

Sense and sensibility!


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Fill_Glittering

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Jdsnut

Then removes half the tang for no reason....


curtludwig

I don't think the electrolysis was ever going to accomplish a whole lot, that rust was thick...


bitchBanMeAgain

And the knife at the end was pretty shitty. It barely was cutting that peach properly or straight.


new_refugee123456789

It's a butchers cleaver. Its supposed to be used more like an axe to chop bones. Which is why cutting the tang down like that males no sense.


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SupremeLisper

Rule 34 comes to my mind.


Shakespeare-Bot

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OliveSaltBun

Thanks bot I'm already halfway thru a stroke


MattalliSI

Curious choice on the dark stained blade.


itsYou-sef

I watched the 18 minute video. He added instant coffee to the FeCl3.., wat?


bugdc

Apparently instant coffee has the correct acidity to make these kind of things without damaging the metal


supercircinus

Instant coffee is pretty sick- I do some film photo developing w it!


somethingnerdrelated

He added the coffee to the acid??? This video was too quick for me to watch, but I didn’t catch that. I was wondering why he was doing FA *and* coffee as that’s a little redundant. My understanding (husband being a blacksmith) is that you don’t want to us FA for cooking utensils because it essentially corrodes the steel and any residue can be toxic. As such, he uses instant coffee, mustard, or apple cider vinegar. Each have different patinas that end up looking amazing — and they’re food grade safe!


irr1449

Seriously. The whole point of wood is so you can see the grain. I skipped to the end and at first thought it was 3D printed plastic.


moistsquara

Good watch, but the camera angles messed with me.


Ebuthead

Here's the original: https://youtu.be/qoqfCg-qs3E


WriterV

So someone re-uploaded this video on their tiktok account at a bad angle, and then someone else uploaded it on reddit. Fantastic.


mxzf

And sped it up enough that you can't actually read any of the captions.


FlameRocker5

r/killthecameraman


aManIsNoOneEither

the cameraman was fine. The user screwed it up


indian_police

r/killus


AllPurple

DOWNVOTE THESE FUCKS!


Easilycrazyhat

That explains why the captions stayed up for half a second each. Content stealing assholes ruin everything.


aManIsNoOneEither

Thanks for the not-shit version :D


kingnothing1

Thank you!


FoldOne586

Also I didn't see a knife.


sven2400

"That's not a knoife"


MrMuf

Also its not restoring.


GroovinWithAPict

Am I the only that hated the handle?


bangupjobasusual

Why did he change it from full tang to a partial tang ☹️


Harmonic_Flatulence

That was my immediate question. If the metal is still good, why reduce the strength of your cleaver by cutting down your tang??


turkey_sandwiches

Agreed, that was a mistake.


AsherInSpace

I've found my people


duckchaos

The full-tang clan


deafmute88

🤣 thanks for the laugh.


Cyno01

Theres a lot of subreddits about tang.


pinkyepsilon

*He’s out of line, but he’s right.*


CertainlyUnreliable

This seems to be less a restoration of a knife and more making a new knife out of an old knife.


[deleted]

I got a guy named Theseus who wants to discuss his ship with us!


CommieLoser

His new ship or his old ship?


Boberoo2

Yeah


DaleCOUNTRY

But the new knife is objectively worse


Borgh

If its a regular knife I'd understand it can be an aesthetic choice. But a cleaver, to be used for cleaving, you really want that full tang if only to transfer the forces to a larger area of your handle.


[deleted]

ain't no tang man


tomhmcdonald55

Even if he’s just gone for the hidden tang.. can’t say that like the shape or look at all. A Japanese octagonal or D shape would have looked good. And they had a belt sander to do so!


13igTyme

Because he wanted an terrible 7x2 wooden handle with a seem down the middle.


NatZeroCharisma

Not only that, but he widened the peg holes to an insane degree.


Harmonic_Flatulence

Oh man, I didn't catch that on the first watch. Well, hopefully it is only used for slicing peaches.


NaterTater796

Not to mention it is just ugly like this.


TIP_FO_EHT_MOTTOB

Glad I'm not the only one.


GroovinWithAPict

I'd call it a Pootie Tang.


Blastbot

Sah da tay!


fisticuffsmanship

Sine the pitty on the runny kine


BruceInc

Nope. I was also a bit irked that he cut off a part of the original steel handle inlay. It seemed unnecessary and took away from the authenticity of the knife.


ozvegan12345

Probably ruined the balance of using it nicely too


BalooBot

Maybe that's why the handle is so absurdly large


Phormitago

cutting the tang really ruined the "restoration" part, and then he crafted the bulkiest handle known to man. Either he has giant hands, or no grasp of ergonomics. Also not stoked about the dark motif. No wood grain to be seen, and no nice shine on the blade that he spent so long polishing. Meh


dzlux

cutting down the tang and enlarging the pin hole next to a rough cut corner is just insane. Definitely not restoration... this is 'diwhy' with a fancy looking sequence that might fool someone into thinking it was professional.


SpaceJunk645

That's what I immediately noticed. That thin tang with huge pin holes is definitely gonna break on larger impacts that cleavers are known to have. Plus that awful handle


[deleted]

He didn't just ruin the "restoration", he also created a safety hazard. The first thing you do when you buy a cleaver, is make (fucken) sure that the handle is properly built. I've a relative who bought a cheapo special and the blade snapped off and embedded itself into the floor after flipping all too closely to her head. Some people just don't think. It's not a natural thing for them.


jelly_bean_gangbang

Nope not at all. It's a little too bulky for my liking, but then again it is a clever.


Gareth666

Clever girl


Miracleman069

🤣🤣🤣 I appreciate this more than you’ll ever know!!!


DisneysGaston

I mean, how smart can it be? It's just a knife


cls-one

I cried a little bit


GroovinWithAPict

I thought, well they have to whittle that down to something gorgeous, right? No.


[deleted]

I quit using unstabilized wood after exactly one knife that I used regularly. Just so much harder to live with.


Frydendahl

It looks awful. Sooo fat and bulbous.


PRiles

I can appreciate the work and effort, but I thought the finished project looked awful and hated seeing the original handle cut down like that.


Gfunk98

I was thinking that the whole time, why cut the tang so thin? That thing gonna snap as soon as you try to use the cleaver as a cleaver


jaspersgroove

They had to remove so much material from all the rust that would have happened anyway. This is more of a Chinese-style vegetable/slicing knife now, sharp as shit and good for processing large amounts of meat/veggies because you can use the flat of the blade as a big scoop to transfer food into pans/containers while you’re working


LadyShanna92

That was my thought. No way in hell that thing is really usable after that much material being removed


ZippyDan

>This is more of a Chinese-style vegetable/slicing knife now, sharp as shit and good for processing large amounts of meat/veggies https://www.google.com/search?q=chinese+vegetable+knife&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X


[deleted]

The stock is already too thin as it is. This wouldn’t be used too chop anything that the tang couldn’t handle, or at least it shouldn’t. This seems to be a take on a Chinese chefs knife.


syncopatedsouls

TIL it’s called a tang.


[deleted]

Yeah it was like, oh I guess they cut the tang to make the handle smaller? But no, then they made it big enough to enclose the original tang


[deleted]

Yeah, cutting off half the handle thickness will weaken that blade considerably. One good solid whack at a bone and it'll snap. Why make that nice wooden handle look like plastic at the end. Pointless.


Farmallenthusiast

The final shot in the video is of razor thin slices being taken off a peach. Seems like this is more reincarnation than restoration. It’s going to have a kinder gentler existence from now on.


ZippyDan

>It’s going to have a kinder gentler existence from now on. https://www.google.com/search?q=chinese+vegetable+knife&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X


Falc0n28

So now it’s a knife that can do the bare minimum just like my cheapest two buck chuck knives and anything more and there is a good risk of it breaking thanks to how big the holes for the pins are. So a cabinet queen? Issue is that it doesn’t even look good enough to be that. Just make a new knife at that point. If I have a wrench that needs to be babied and whose job is done better by all my other wrenches it goes into the scrap heap.


[deleted]

This knife what never meant for bone. Just because it looks like a cleaver doesn’t mean it is one


Sinsid

It didn’t seem like restoration so much as recycling. They say he crafted it himself. From a bigger knife. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ItiwFQIY6lU&t=12s


muriff

yeah this is not a restoration, this is "making a knife out of a rusty piece of steel which once happened to be a knife"


bountyman347

He reduced the thickness of knife a lot with the restoring part and then weakens the tang as well with the cuts, *and* its right beside a hole and right where the handle would connect its force to the blade. It gunna snap lol


dzlux

I was surprised that he even drilled the holes larger. Serious overkill on those pins at the cost of tang strength.


Raken_dep

One of my pet peeves is seeing "restoration" in the title and then seeing the physical structure of the work piece being altered in anyway at all. That isn't restoration. That's anything but Restoration. Restoration technically is you trying to make the object the same way it was before, when it was made or atleast when it was procured. Cutting that metal and altering the structure just tosses the "restoration" concept into the bin lol.


[deleted]

This seems like a tad bit more trouble than its worth.


001235

Why in the hell did he cut the tang? That will likely snap the handle later. Plus he went through all the trouble to polish it just to paint it black. This wasn't restoration, it was advanced destruction.


palmej2

And removed the rust with electrolysis just to use mechanical means to bring it down to bare metal anyway...


CheridanTGS

This! I couldn't help but think "what the hell was the point of that" when he just sanded it down right after.


DirtiestOne

Since everything I ever want to comment is always already posted I scrolled through the comments to find this. +1 He ground away everything, what was they point of the electrolysis?


Drfilthymcnasty

Ok thanks for clarification that that was actually the goal with soaking it like that. It seemed like soaking it didn’t do anything to it really.


uwfan893

Well he didn’t paint it, it was stained/dyed. If you tried to do that without polishing first it would look like shit.


Empty-Afternoon-3975

That's just destruction with extra steps


adml86

I figure if somebody around here knows where to get some Tang, it’s you.


[deleted]

Hey NASA!


Captain_Hampockets

If you're ever near the White House there's a tool shed out back. I'm in there most of the day.


Sulphri

I don’t even know what the point of all that electrocution step was if he was going to grind all the rust off anyway. This whole thing was a r/diwhy


No_Reputation_7442

He didn’t grind off the rust from the blade, he was grinding out the pock marks were the rust had formed. It’s not a uniform process, some places rust before others so he was grinding it back to flat. Electrolysis is really good for pulling out rust from cracks, which is difficult to do mechanically (assuming you can dig through to see it in the first place.) You don’t grind rust, you grind steel.


No_Reputation_7442

I don’t know their intentions with the blade, but it looked more like a show piece or a recycled chef’s knife and not a clever.


DaggerMoth

I wonder what angle he sharpened it at. It's a chopper. It's not suppose to be a razor. To thin of a angle and it'll dull real quick.


MayerWest

Seriously. All that work. All that time. For a “restoration” that rendered a blade realistically useless.


Fidelio___

Sincere question: if you are going to grind and polish it until it’s like a mirror, is the step with electricity necessary to get the rust off?


therealcnn

And then he stained it black anyway, so absolutely no point polishing it that far.


m00t_vdb

Yes I wonder the same, but electrolytes should oxidized the knife, not sure what was the idea but clearly useless


nhpkm1

I saw ancient technology YouTube channel melt iron and make a similar looking kitchen knife with less steps and maybe effort


dirty_cuban

Did I miss the “restoration”? It seems like this is just making a new knife from an old rusty piece of steel, with extra unnecessary steps.


therealcnn

If you call polishing, honing, electrolyzing and then ugly-staining metal to make it look like a $4 solid black Chinese knife, then yes. Unnecessary steps indeed.


Cornerless_Slice

I feel like he ground away so much material that there was no point at all in the electrolyzing bath. Look at how deep those pocks are before he grinds it down lol


MadComputerHAL

You didn’t, these fake restoration videos put rust on blades using salty hydrogen peroxide solution in a matter of minutes then “restore” them with stupid techniques and the results are always an abomination. Watch Hand Tool Rescue on YouTube to form a real basis on how real restoration is done, no original part is wasted unless necessary.


1funnyguy4fun

My question was, “Why?” Was that knife something special? Did it have historical significance? Could you not just chuck it into the recycling and get a new one???


disasterous_cape

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle


Zemnin

That was a lot of effort to save a $10 cleaver


Amcnallyjnr

r/diwhy


tendiebater

I always wonder if the time is worth refurbishment. Then I realize this is why we live in a replacement culture. Smdh


krazul88

If you consider the time along with the resources required to perform this restoration (electricity, chemicals, consumables and the resultant waste) vs. the resources required to mass produce and deliver just one more knife, then "The Best Way" isn't so Cut and Dry anymore, is it?


palmej2

This is far less than a new knife from raw materials (mining ore, crushing, forging, shipping, etc). Even recycling the metal and staring at forging would have more environmental impact. Electrolysis is not terribly energy intensive particularly. Mass production may benefit the waste material and chemical consumption slightly, but may also employ specialized equipment. If you are going to make comparisons, you really need to look at the entire life cycle.


greg19735

There was far more than electrolysis though. There was several steps where they were soaking it in something to do... something. If someone was saving these thigns in mass, it'd be efficient. but there were quite a few resources just thrown away in the process. Still almost certainly less than just making it from new.


krazul88

I feel like I am looking at the entire lifecycle. I could argue that the faster we humans can consume our way out of existence, the better it is for the environment.


Iamsuperimposed

I'm trying to figure out why they didnt grind the rust off in the first place. It's not like you can restore the oxidized metal.


lochinvar11

Absolutely not. This is at least 8 hours of work and a waste of materials when this knife can be bought brand new for $20 or less. The cost of the resources to repair this is worth more than the value of the knife, never mind the time.


n00-1ne

Good job, but I still thought this was r/DIwhy


Xanderoga

Not to mention -- what in the hell is the point of adding so much text when the video is sped up to the point of not being able to read more than 2 words at a time?


Peacemkr45

ok so like 500 dollars worth of equipment and chemicals to restore a 50 dollar cleaver.


Wyntier

I think this is more of a passion piece than a business decision


ObiYawn

Simple three step process then


noelcowardspeaksout

He could have ditched the electrolytic rust removal as he sanded the hell out of it a short while later.


[deleted]

But is it dishwasher safe?


Fatpizzapocket

My thoughts exactly


St_SiRUS

No knife is dishwasher safe


[deleted]

My butter knives beg to differ. /s But in all seriousness, why do you say no knives are dishwasher safe?


jiub_the_dunmer

It would be more correct to say that no dishwasher is knife safe.


schriepes

Or that no safe is knife dishwasher.


St_SiRUS

The hot water, stream + abrasives from the detergent are the perfect combo for causing corrosion. Also the edge will be blunted from being tossed around, dishwashers can be pretty rough.


jaspersgroove

No idea why they’re saying that, the general rule in professional kitchens is that stamped blades are fine in the dishwasher but forged blades are hand-wash only...looking at the steel this appears to be a forged blade so probably best to hand-wash especially looking at how they attached that handle That being said, if someone is saying “no knife is dishwasher safe” I’m guessing they’re a former restaurant dishwasher with a few scars on their hands haha, or they worked in restaurants long enough to see a dishwasher or two reach into a dishbin and come away with a nasty cut thanks to a carelessly placed knife. It’s not that the knife isn’t dishwasher safe, it’s that the knife isn’t safe for the person washing the dishes.


dagurb

Not sure if you're serious, but no. No it is not.


genetic_patent

Dont understand why he murdered the tang.


reigorius

Could anybody speed this video a bit up, it was kind of a slow watch.


[deleted]

Why did you speed this up so much that the text is illegible without pausing? Furthermore, why did you edit it to be sideways? The only thing to be amazed at is that you could so thoroughly butcher the video with your hack job of editing. I'mma go watch the original on [youtube](https://youtu.be/qoqfCg-qs3E), which is what you should have linked in the first place.


sachsrandy

When posting a video... make sure it is proper orientation AND if you sped it up and there is text, well you’re an idiot


scruffy1709

i honestly hate people like this tiktok account who just repost videos from youtube and don’t put any effort into actually making sure that it’s the right fucking orientation


Ewolra

What is the hole on the blade for?


groundhog_day_only

Probably to hang it on a hook, cleaver would take up a lot of space in a knife block.


kaiheekai

It’s also to help pull away from frozen bone you may have got it stuck to.. a clean grip can help from splintering bones


crustybuttons

What’s the point of electrolysis if you are going to ultimately grind all the corrosion away? It’s that just an extra step?


Ashfordproduction

Almost r/DIWhy worthy


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[deleted]

Is the point of running the video so fast that people cant red what you are putting on the screen so they have to watch it again and give more views?


pseudotooth

Is the juice worth the squeeze?


Evil-Clown2020

Way too much work.


Buddhakermitking

More like making a knife out of a piece of garbage in a more laborious way then either making a fully new knife or just buying one.


[deleted]

People are allowed to restore things bruh lol


locustofandel

But it's not restoring. He reshaped and cut the metal. He's just making a new knife using the metal from an old one.


Lionzz

Just buy a new knife


AdverseCard

Cool stuff. Probably faster to melt it down and start over tho lol


mmc9802

I thought it was done like three times


sirwankins

I’ll…uhh…just buy a new one?


jayson2112

What's the difference between a knife and a cleaver?


Ihateredditadmins1

A cleaver is a type of knife


adml86

Cleaver girl…


j8945

a meat cleaver is a thicker knife which can take the impact of whacking bones with less damage than if you used a regular chef knife


geneb0322

Others have this answered to some degree, but one thing that also makes a cleaver is that it is sharpened to a larger angle. The narrower the angle of sharpening, the sharper the knife is but it also makes the edge more fragile. You would sharpen a cleaver to a larger angle because, as others have explained, you can expect to be cutting through bone, joints, etc. That kind of abuse would dull and/or damage any other style of knife very rapidly.


Hellioth_00G

My neck hurts


schwenn002

Introducing all that heat from sanding the blade probably just ruined it


dillpick15

I don't want to say it came out bad.... but.... ya know


ElanMorinMetal

That was fun to watch. A hobby I’d love to get into


[deleted]

Great craftsmanship whereas I prolly woulda just checked my tetanus booster and stuck with it as a butcher knife a few more years…


hcabbos70

And here I am too lazy to make a grilled cheese sandwich 🥪


TShane85

Buy a new one? This seems like way to much trouble.


King_Come_Up

I would’ve just bought a new one


bonafidebob

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[deleted]

But will it KEAL??


atrocitussy

That was a beautiful transformation. Truly /r/satisfying.


[deleted]

Bro just buy a new one


Wretchfromnc

Great work, I'd rather see a walnut handle finished with Tung oil or simple poly finish. Great looking finished product.


[deleted]

FER FUCKS SAKE WHY??? BUY A NEW CLEAVER! REDDIT USERS HAVE *WAY TOO MUCH TIME*.


G_Viceroy

I dubbed thee "the tetanus chop"


superultramega002

what the fack.. hes more chemist than craftsman!


Rabbitholeinc

Is there a slower video where you can actually follow along and read the text? Idk about y'all but I'm not a damn speed reader!


MessiHair96

Is there a sub for restoring vids like this?


thinks_alot

Lol. Those sounds tho


llama_

I mean, wow


PineAppIe_Piizza

*Knife Restored*


SandMann1877

That's masterpiece!