Growing up in our family meant that in fall we would participate in making sauerkraut. Dad would get the cutter cleaned and sharpened after having spent a long year in our very dank and dusty basement. The cutter has not been in that basement for over 20 years, but it was in storage with one of my sisters. It hadn't been used for longer than that.
It has been my good fortune that the cutter was taken out of storage and given to me along with the very valuable stomper. I brought it home and hosed it off. Then I took it apart and cleaned all the pieces, there was even some antique shreds of cabbage in the crevices. I really scrubbed it down. Naval jelly had to be used on the metal to take off the rust. I was able to go to my Ace Hardware and find the right guy to sell me the right products for the wood and metal restoration. I love Elliott's Ace.
The wood looks beautiful with it's new finish of mineral oil and carnuba wax. The metal is steel gray again. I am going to rub it all down before putting it all back together. I think my days of hand cutting my cabbage are over.
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