Worlds Biggest Cleaver Restoration

In this video I m restoring a very big cleaver. These cleavers are also called splitter. They were used by butchers before they had electric saws to help their work. There are a few characteristics that make it very obvious that this is a cleaver: the very thick blade and the big angle on the cutting edge, the hole in the front to hang it on the wall, the very long handle to hold it with two hands. I ve found this cleaver actually a long time ago and I was very impressed by its size. Now I thought it s the time to restore it. This project was pretty straight forward. After a quick disassembly I gave the blade a nice sandblasting with glass beads to remove all the rust. With the help of a hand held belt sander I removed all the pitting of the blade. On the tang I just sanded it clean and didn t went that far as it will be covered by the handle afterwards. I didn t want to remove anymore material to remove all the pitting, that would just weaken the tang. Once I hade it all clean I swit