Antique Two Handed Cleaver - Restoration

In this video I restore a very large axe, also called a "splitter". They were used by butchers before they had electric saws to help them with their work. There are several features that make it clear that this is an axe: very thick blade and large angle on the cutting edge, hole in the front for hanging it on the wall, very long handle to hold it with two bladed hands.
I actually found this cleaver a long time ago and was very impressed by its size. Now I thought it was time to restore it. This project was quite simple. After a quick disassembly, I gave the blade a nice sandblast with glass beads to remove all the rust. With the help of a hand-held belt sander I removed all the gouges from the blade. I only sanded on the tang and didn't go that far as it would be covered by the handle later. I didn't want to remove more material to remove all the gouges, that would only weaken the sharpness. After cleaning everything, I switched to hand sanding with finer grits up to 600 wet. I decided to go with a satin finish on the blade. It is very important that all the sanding marks point in the same direction to get a uniform look.