Primitive Fridge Restoration - Early 1900s Ice Box

In this restoration video I will bring back to life a vintage ice box produced in the early 1900s in Germany or as I like to call it “the father of the fridges”. I bought it from an antiquities website thinking that will make a great restoration video and the seller told me that the old ice box was found in a barn. This primitive fridge is a unique piece and has a lot of beautiful brass elements. I decided to restore it in such a way that it will not lose its antique look. The fridge restoration process took me about 8 days to achieve what you saw in this restoration video. Removing the old paint from the wooden elements and sanding them took the most of the time and of course cleaning the zinc elements from inside and outside was as well pretty hard because some of the was extremely corroded and rusty, but the sandblaster and other tools saved me in a way. I love how this antique ice box turned out and I’m happy that I could save it from decay. Now it is perfectly functional and will serve in my w