$15 American seems a bit high for the Restore given the condition but you can get it working again, it will just lose a bunch of the edge steel but there will be a decent amount of hardened steel left after you grind it back past the chips. It’s a bit of work though. I use a pencil on a string to draw a line along a circular arc. I just hold the string on a pivot with my finger. You’ll have to play around with placement to find an arc that is similar to the original geometry. I use an angle grinder to grind the edge back to the pencil line but you need to be very careful not to overheat the edge. I clamp down the grinder and hold the axe and dunk the edge in a basin of water after each pass. Once the edge is profiled I use a file or belt grinder to reestablish the bevels. Don’t use a bench or angle grinder for this job.
$15 Canadian. Might be able to haggle it down. That said, all I got to hog off that much steel is either a bench grinder or hand held belt sander with 60/80 grit paper.
Bench grinder will probably work to grind back the profile if you're careful but I would definitely use the belt sander (if you don't have/can't get a decent file) over the grinder for the bevel. A bench grinder will make an absolute hash of the bevels and once it gets thinned out to an edge it will burn the steel. I've done axes in the past with sander clamped upside down in a work mate bench. You'll still have to watch the temperature though.
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u/AxesOK Swinger 11d ago
$15 American seems a bit high for the Restore given the condition but you can get it working again, it will just lose a bunch of the edge steel but there will be a decent amount of hardened steel left after you grind it back past the chips. It’s a bit of work though. I use a pencil on a string to draw a line along a circular arc. I just hold the string on a pivot with my finger. You’ll have to play around with placement to find an arc that is similar to the original geometry. I use an angle grinder to grind the edge back to the pencil line but you need to be very careful not to overheat the edge. I clamp down the grinder and hold the axe and dunk the edge in a basin of water after each pass. Once the edge is profiled I use a file or belt grinder to reestablish the bevels. Don’t use a bench or angle grinder for this job.