Rustic Draw Knife Restoration

A drawknife (drawing knife, draw shave, shaving knife) is a traditional woodworking hand tool used to shape wood by removing shavings. It consists of a blade with a handle at each end. The blade is much longer (along the cutting edge) than it is deep (from cutting edge to back edge). It is pulled or "drawn" (hence the name) toward the user.
A drawknife is commonly used to remove large slices of wood for flat faceted work, to debark trees, or to create roughly rounded or cylindrical billets for further work on a lathe, or it can shave like a spokeshave plane, where finer finishing is less of concern than a rapid result. The thin blade lends itself to create complex concave or convex curves. Unlike a spokeshave, it does not have a closed mouth to control chip formation, and so lacks the spokeshave's superior cutting and shaving precision.They are also a vital piece of equipment in hand-made cricket bats, being used to shape the curve of the bat.

This knife was completely covered with rust when it was found abandoned in the garden. First the rust should be removed. The kerosene oil was applied in the knife and kept aside for about two hours to loosen the ferric oxides covered around the knife. Few hours later, the rust was wiped away with piece of cloth. But there were some remaining oxides that were hardly bound to the knife. He had to use hand grinder to remove those hard layers of rust. The blade of the knife was also sharpened using the hand grill itself.

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