Rust cleaning

It’s summertime and the living is a bit hectic but exciting with all the current scythe goings-on so not much time for making. Charlie and I are getting close to finishing the cleft-oak signposts  and, when I get a spare moment, I fit in some of my own work – more on that another time.
My tool-restoration project continues with the discovery that vinegar, as well as being great on chips and for cleaning the windows, is a miraculous rust-remover. I thought that things like my block plane and these calipers were scrap but after a 20 min soak the rust just wiped off with a bit of steel wool.