Like a normal axe, but slightly safer. In this video I restore an old axe found by Black Beard Projects. While I was on vacation in Italy, I decided to contact him and we worked out a time and place to make a video together. We had VERY limited tools and time, so we decided to split this restoration into two parts. In Part 1, on my channel, I clean up and sharpen the axe and prepare the handle with some light shaping. In Part 2, on Black Beard Projects' channel he finishes the handle, forges the guard, and mounts the head on the axe. We decided to modify this axe into a "safety axe" as we wanted to do something different than all the other axe restoration videos out there. We had a ton of fun during the short time I was able to visit and Black Beard Projects is a really nice guy for hosting me. Hopefully we will meet again! If anyone knows anything about the maker of this axe, I would love to know.