1950's Reflective Lantern Restoration 

My heart broke when the glass jar did, but you found something better!

The before / after is really really impressive, you were very ingenious in replacing this transparent red part 🤩👍

I can’t believe you found something so perfect for the diffuser 😱 excellent job! 🎉

You have boundless patience, an eye for detail and a desire to show what these wonderful old items looked like when new. Bravo to you

I'm racking my brain to try to figure out what this was used for back in the day. So unique! Unbelievable restoration is always. 🙌🏻

2:30 This is the best sandblasting shot I’ve seen so far! So satisfying ❤️

That homemade metal finish is ace! You should market that stuff 🙂

I'd love to do this kind of work. So glad you share this stuff. I can live vicariously through it.

Very smart to look at a local store for the glass you needed! And how lucky it is to find one that's an exact fit.

That red glass was just perfect! Wow it just matched so well when you powder coated it. Loved it great video!

Such a strange lantern but very cool in the same time ! Nice job Nicolas 👍 cheers from Romania 🇷🇴

What a brilliant restoration! You amaze me with your attention to detail and resourcefulness. I love your substitution of a candle base for the glass lantern part. One of my favourite restoration channels. Pls keep them coming! Cheers from Australia 🤗🇦🇺

Fantastic restoration, the glass was genius.

I was going to say, "Nice work on the reflectors," but then I saw how you hid the switch, so I had to say nice work on both!

Классная реставрация, безо всякого мыла, всё по делу. Итог на все 💯. Лайк однозначно🙏.

Great work. Loved that you left the label untouched to show its age. 👍

Woah, the cup from Morocco fit the lamp perfectly, with those ridges. Awesome result in the end! Amazing job, man, as always!

That lantern is beautiful, just amazingly well done, and the glass "cover", just the perfect find! It probably looks better than when it was new, just a work of art.

I wondered about many design issue as I watch this. By the end? Every question I had was answered. Wonderful work OP!

What a cool little light im glad u saved it and revamped it i look foward to seeing more of your interesting resterations

That’s a very interesting lantern. Never seen one like that. I actually like how you improvised with the diffuser at the end there. And going for a candle glass was a smart move because it’s already designed to handle high heat. So it wouldn’t shatter when you baked on the paint. Honestly, I would love to have that little lantern hanging in my workshop. But yeah.

Ive already watch all you're restoration including the latest one, its all very satisfying and relaxing while watching it. Im hoping for your new video soon by the way im from Philippines. More power, godbless

It's a win! That's a pretty awesome lamp! I loved the fix for the red lens you replaced. They must have a powder coat for everything.

How gorgeous that you found such a perfect replacement for the diffusor!

You know you're a fan of this channel if, around 10-15s in, you're saying "oh yeah.. that's getting sandblasted and powder coated, that's getting a 3D printed part to replace ... but I don't know HOW he's going to fix that one piece?!!"

Again, you do what looks to be impossible. Beautiful piece, this was art. ❤

Le design de cette lampe est incroyable et avec ta restauration elle est encore plus magnifique 👏

I've never seen that glass coloring treatment before. That's one funky lantern!

This was a fantastic restoration. I have a feeling that this might have been a port light (hence red) used in the fishing industry.

Merci pour cette vidéo !!! Tellement satisfaisant de voir ces petits morceaux d'histoire reprendre vie !

Awesome work it's cool to see such old things id never otherwise known existed

Another wonderful job! Thanks for sharing your work❤

Je ne comprends pas tout de l'objet ( = les spirales sur les arêtes, c'est pour protéger les réflecteurs des chocs ? Et dans quel contexte était utilisée cette lanterne). Ce qui est sûr c'est que je le trouve superbe. + bravo pour cette nouvelle resto 👍

Talk about enlightening.

You do nice work. I would recommend looking into a nickel plating setup. Keep up the good work.

Love your work and videos so so much! Simply fantastic! 👏👏👏

The replacement diffuser was a better choice than the original. You improved the design and brought it up to date with the lithium batteries and the LED bulb. Congratulations on the great work! I wonder, though, why it had springs around the outside.

Some LEDs will break when powered on reverse polarity, and so the only thing I would recommend you add, is a diode in series with the lamp. Other than that, very well done. I especially liked your solution for replacing the red lens 😀

Thanks for posting! :) (Edit: re-watching this video. Noticed how much your editing has evolved! Great job! The flow is wonderful. Sped up @ the right moments and brings us back in right when necessary to continue the story! Keep it up!)

This was a magnificent restoration it turned out fabulous well done . Amanda x

What a neat lantern, great job on the restoration!!! 😃

Looks amazing! True to the original but even better!

What an incredibly cool light 🧡

Superb demonstration of your skills. An entertaining watch.

Good job mister beautifully restored well done

I just watch your videos because I think they are satisfying

Excellent restoration. Cool idea to replace the original diffuser. I think it would be very inconvenient to change the batteries though. Also the box for batteries looks a bit high - they may pop out of the holders on impact

I recommend putting ferrules on stranded wire, before connecting with the screw terminal.

9:06 A thoughtful decision. 👍

The glass cutter normally has a ball on the back where it is used to lightly tap where the cut has just been made to finish cutting, most of the time it comes off perfect, My father usually cuts mirrors and it really works. ☝🏽❤️

Absolutely beautiful

Nice work, as always. Perhaps it could do with a little counterweight opposite of the battery holder to get it balanced again...

Excellent work, good thinking. Salud de Argentina. 😊😊😊

Не тока руки, и голова варит, классно, супер👍👍👍👍

I really like this project and outcome.

Great work.

I'm not 100% certain, but it seems like the reflective coating on the back was part of a primitive 'retroreflector'. Which means that through the geometry it reflects the light straight back to the source instead of bouncing off at the same angle of incidence. By replacing it with a flat piece of aluminium you probably lose this, which makes it _much_ less noticeable as a reflector. Great restoration nonetheless

Who will appreciate as much as you did?

Great work. I’m interested in what the lanterns original function was? Very interesting design.

Spectacular restoration !!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, never thought an electrostatic gun would work with glass!

Excellent hard work, and intelligence.

Beautiful 😊

It looks great and you did a wonderful job restoring it as well!!!! I enjoyed your video so I gave it a Thumbs Up👍

Dostum harika işler yapıyorsun bir sonraki videoyu sabırsızlıkla bekliyorum 👍

C'est la première vidéo que je visionne de chez vous et c'est la grande classe. Félicitations et excellentes continuations !

4:20 Великолепно! Прекрасно! Гениально!

Very cool piece! Man cave must have kinda thing

14:05 i felt that when the music came on.... sheeeeesh

Amazing restore as usual!!

Amazing work as always

That thing is beautiful 👍😀

Fantastic restoration

Well done ! Nice solution!

Well done. Once again great restoration. 👍👍👍

Just amazing work .

execelnt restoration with the perfect choices.

Amazing in every way ! Keep up making good content like this !

Groovy, baby! So, you got yourself a vintage reflective lantern, huh? Looks like it's been through a few battles, just like me. Bet it's seen its fair share of dark nights and creepy corners. Missing battery, broken diffuser... sounds like it's been through the wringer. But hey, nothing a little elbow grease and chainsaw action can't fix, am I right? Took you 15 days to restore? That's dedication, pal. I respect that. Can't wait to see this bad boy in action, lighting up the darkness like a beacon of hope in a world gone mad. Thanks for sharing your restoration journey with us. Now, excuse me while I go battle some deadites and save the world... again. Keep on fighting the good fight, and remember, hail to the king, baby!

Amazing, as always. Thanks for showing us the times when everything didn't go exactly according to plan, and how you dealt with that. It's a shame the light doesn't come out of the six round bits at the top. What are they there for? Oh, and I assume the springs are to stop the glass from breaking if the light bumps against something?

отличная работа! Немного странный выбор батарей: сюда хорошо подошли бы 3шт литиевые батареи 18650 с возможностью их заряда. Либо даже 1шт батарея + повышающий инвертор в 12v

Seeing you paint the inside of a piece was a surprise, it always seems to be not important or fully covered in painter’s tape Also, using a paint brush to take the paint off of the lenses was funny to see

My favorite part is always how to replace the non-metal parts obviously sand blasting/polishing/body-filler/welding is cool but seeing how to replace glass or wiring or remake plastic bits that have broken is more unique of a process.

There are mirror coating solutions containing silver, with which you can make pretty nice mirror surfaces really quickly.

AMAZING!

Was this a common design in the 50s? I love the retro-futuristic look.

would have been really awesome to use red filament LEDs inside the smaller glass circles around the perimeter for extra lighting

You could have used silver gold leaf or mirror effect paint to restore the mirroring on the reflectors.

Я бы выключатель спрятал внутрь корпуса, чтобы сохранить аутентичность. А так, работа проделана большая и скрупулёзная, мне нравится.

This is the first restore i have seen where i was a little disappointed to see that hard-earned patina and work scars cleaned up. nevertheless fantastic work.

That sandblasting was some of the most beautiful I had ever seen. Would it have been possible to split the batteries up - two on each side - to give better weight balance to the lantern? I saw it tilting to one side when you picked it up in the end, so I was curious if that would help.

I had seen your channel recommended as I watch several other channels like this one and held off watching, but boy was I missing out. A really nice creation/restoration. I love that you used "new" methods to create a product that is actually better than the original in many ways. My question is this: You used a red LED bulb and a red diffuser, right? My physics tell me that a red bulb should be absorbed by the red diffuser and the light will be white. Right? :) Anyway, thanks for your content.

The acid from the last video! Its back!

Super travail ! Bravo !

Not sure that i would use my lathe as an anvil, however very good restoration!

I would say it's an old ship's light. Colour, reflectors, external protections, weight.

I didn't realise you could powder coat glass. Everyday is a school day

that came off the Tardis. one day, when you've nearly forgotten about him, he'll come back for it. and you'll be off on another adventure. This is the first piece of yours that I've really wanted! It's so steampunk! Where do you sell your restores, please?

You are very talented. Thanks for sharing.🇺🇸

Buen trabajo y una solución buena lo del baso. Saludos.