date-created: '2021-11-07'
date-updated: '2025-11-12'
manifest-author:
    name: Appropedia
    email: admin@appropedia.org
title: 'Rusty lump hammer restoration'
description: 'Simple restoration of a rusty lump hammer bought in a job lot of old tools. A page showing the process.  Angle grinder, 40 grit flapper wheel, and a portable 4" vice with soft jaws. Goodbye rust.  Filling any holes with hardwood wedge offcuts.'
intended-use: 'tool restoration'
keywords:
    - restoration
    - tools
project-link: 'https://www.appropedia.org/Rusty_lump_hammer_restoration'
contact:
    name: 'Julian Stirling'
    social:
        platform: Appropedia
        user-handle: 'Julian Stirling'
version: 13
made: false
image: 'https://www.appropedia.org/w/images/d/d7/Before_restoration_photo_of_hammer.jpg'
variant-of:
    title: Maintenance
    web: 'https://www.appropedia.org/Maintenance'
license:
    documentation: CC-BY-SA-4.0
licensor:
    name: 'Julian Stirling'
    contact: 'https://www.appropedia.org/Julian_Stirling'
documentation-home: 'https://www.appropedia.org/Rusty_lump_hammer_restoration'
documentation-language: en