Sorry if this the wrong board for this I recently bought this

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Also, would be possible to clean the spade? Or should I just leave it as it is?

>>34561852
>go to hardware store
>buy shovel handle
>carve new handle
>???
>profit.

It's a tool meant to be used as a tool.

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>>34561867
How would I go about removing these metal "screws" that keeps the spade to the handle?

>>34561881
The're rivets, drill/file/tap them out.
replace handle, drill appropriate sized holes in new handle, find appropriate sized metal rod/nail to act as rivet, peen new rivet, enjoy new handle on old shovel.

>>34561881
Nigga do you know what a screw even is?

>>34561894
Thank you so much

>>34561903
Yes, I know those aren't screws, that's why I used the ". I should probably have said nails or something, English isn't my first language so I'm sorry for the mistake.

>>34561852

Let's take a step back and observe how crazy ww2 memorabilia fetishism has gotten. OP purchased, PURCHASED, a fucking 80 year old SHOVEL, probably for 100$ too. To do what? Nothing but complete their larping SS shovel-macht, concentration camp ash cleaner load out. It's a fucking SHOVEL, it doesn't need to be restored it needs to be in your garden digging roots you insufferable faggot. What's next an authentic pair of ww2 cotton socks? A cum stained hankercheif?

>>34561965
>assuming it was 100 dollars

It was 5 euro. And I want to use it when I go for my hikes, so of course I need to change the old handle.

put an AK stock on as a handle
>>34561965
presumably the handle was too damaged to see any real use

You bought an old WW2 shovel, and you now intend to butcher it to try and make a functional shovel out of it?

If it's a functional shovel you want, why didn't you just buy one?

If it's a WW2 shovel you want, why the fuck would you get rid of the original handle?

>>34562031
I wanted a souvenir from Normandy. I also go for hikes so a shovel was pretty perfect for me. The handle is to rotten to be used so I need to add a new handle.

Why buy a new shovel when I could by a functional one from the second world war for only 5 euro?

>>34562038
>Why buy a new shovel when I could by a functional one from the second world war for only 5 euro?

Clearly you didn't, since you need to replace the handle to make it functional.

>>34561965
Some people refrain from destroying historical objects.

>>34561881
they are rivet
if you want to resell it, you are fuck

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>>34561965
>>34562031
There are nothing wrong with using WW2 shovel
because German and Soviet made million of those

Link related is some Russian make a new handle for one of the spade he found in eastern front

http://onepamop.livejournal.com/1190792.html

That's not even German. Their design was different. I've seen these for sale before. I think they might be E. Bloc surplus. If it was an actual WWII relic, you wouldn't want to replace the handle or use it as a tool. As for what you have here, go ahead and put a new handle on it and smash, chop, dig or whatever with it. It has little historical significance and no monetary value beyond being a functional tool.

>>34561903
fucking shut down