1911-1974 Stanley No51 Spokeshave restoration (zinc plating and making brass) | Dr. Hut of Handcraft

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In this video I restored an old spokeshave!

The spokeshave was in a pretty bad condition when I got it. The paint was starting to come of and it was very dirty and rusty.

Like always I started with disassembling and then cleaned all parts with warm water and soap (most of the time you don’t really need very expensive and aggressive cleaning substances, soap nearly always does the job perfectly).
Then I removed rust on the parts with an eco friendly rust remover based on citric acid.
The main part got some paint stripper and wire brush treatment to remove painting and the rust.
After a little filing and sanding all surfaces to remove bad marks I used a technique where you burn linseed oil into the metal. Just rub the part with a thin layer of linseed oil, put it in the oven and wait for one hour. (Attention: this technique smells really bad). I repeated the process three times in total to get a pleasing result.

After the main part was ready I did some wire brushing, filing and sanding on the other parts. The part that holds the blade down (I don’t know the name of it) got hot bluing afterwards. Please consider that you can reuse the oil for hot bluing many many times.

The blade got shaped, sanded and sharpened.

The screws got zinc plated with a 20% Sodium hydroxide solution and zinc powder. I do not recommend retrying this particular method of zinc plating even though it’s a very easy method, because it can be extremely dangerous if the substances are not handled correctly. Sodium hydroxide can be very dangerous and wet zinc powder is pyrophoric, which means that it ignites “itself” while in contact with air!!

After reassembling the restoration is done!

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Until next time :)


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