Cheers 

I feel like we need a video where Julian explains all his "don't ask me how I know" mistakes

I am consistently amazed at the number and variety of complex skills Julian has mastered to restore various forms of art. Bravo!

I feel like Julian undersells the incredible amount of work this must have been. The surface area of an three dimensional object this size is equivalent to that of a very large painting. Bravo

Me: wondering what fancy tool Julian will use to smooth out the fill in medium on the hand Julian: *uses finger* Me: Nice.

I love when we get videos about pieces that aren't your normal oil paint on canvas!

I can't help but feel like he looked depressed and exhausted at the beginning, until your restoration breathed in new hope. The change is so profound.

"don't ask me how I know"....I love the way Julian has become so familiar with his public

"From beer to bean, and everything in-between" You sir, are a word magician

“Because I like making more work for myself….” Oh the souls of a perfectionist! 💕🐝💕🇺🇸

Whenever I watch your videos I always quietly think to myself, when I grow up, do I want to be an art conservator? You inspire me and probably so many others to partake in this career path and that’s super respectable. Thank you, Julian.

As a non catholic I find it amazing that there is a patron saint for literally everything. Make beer? There’s this guy. Wanna steal things? Saint Nicolas has your back.

I’ve been waiting for a 3D restoration for a while now!! Can’t wait to see the process!

Greetings from Belgium. I grew up in a town near Oudenburg (Flanders). As a matter of fact I grew up on what used to be the grounds of the Abbey. Nice te see some local history (for me).

Great job! Just FYI, his staff is more correctly called a crozier, and is the symbol of his position as a bishop. Also I think the statue was originally planned for a position above eye level, so Arnold is looking down on the viewer and the viewer is looking up. As one does with a sainted brewer.

"because I like making more work for myself and taking things that should be simple and making them complex" as a programmer, I felt that.

Am I the only one who winced when Julian used his nice Gingher shears to cut paper? That would be a SERIOUS offense to any seamstress LOL

The metallic paint is such a good idea, it’s very pretty. Have you ever thought of making your own custom paint like this one?

The mash rake restoration was ingenious! Great job! You deserve a cheer or two.

All I can see is ' sinterklaas '. That is a dutch tradition every year for children. Great job, looks so much better now!

It is finally restored, kudos. Take care and God bless amen.

Hello, I am a young Brazilian girl, lover of restoration and sacred art. I like your videos, especially when you restore old paintings, in silence. It's just that I'm hearing impaired (😞) and if I could have sign language in your videos, I'd love it. A big hug and keep it up, with high quality videos.

I really enjoyed that one! Something a little different but same basic idea. I buy a lot of vintage items and clean them and resell them. I clean way more than I thought I would. Lots from smokers homes, items stored in the basement or shed, planters that have seen better days.

Bravo! Really enjoyed this restoration. I collect German Putz figures & smokers, so really familiar with the paint from my antique ones. I'm not brave enough to try to clean them, but was fascinated to watch you do it. Thank you.

Love the extra big Japanese saw on such tiny bits of wood on the Mashrake!

Loved the video! Btw, his "tunic" is a rochet or surplice, and his "staff" is a crozier.

I have been binge-watching these videos for over 2 hours. how and why are these so interesting. it seems entertaining only when you've been watching these

I know I could never do this job.... it's very tedious and takes a ton of patience. Bravo to you Julian.

Love seeing statues and 3D works of art once in a while. You did a great job as always. I'm lying in pain in my bed, and this video helped me relax.

I'm always excited when I see a new video from you, Julian - it's always a treat! Thank you for sharing your work with everyone.

Obviously there is no end to your talent or skill. Another smazing restoration. Bravo!

Thanks for the great video. Basswood is a great choice for your repair because the carving is possibly linden, almost the same as our basswood.

You are a master of many skills. A carpenter, chemist, cleaner, painter, forger and a saint (as in patience of a saint) LOL.

I literally gasped when the grime came off that red paint. It's so beautiful underneath!

The change to this statue is just amazing! Good work Julian! You are a Master at your craft!

A wonderful achievement! Thanks for sharing.

I don't want to say I am addicted to your videos, but I just can't stop looking at them: The combination of you doing something I've always been exceedingly fascinated by, your voice, and the exceptional pacing does wonders. AND you have some preternatural color knowledge, just looking at a color in a dilapidated state and somehow knowing what to mix and how to is mindblowing. Thank you kindly for the videos!

I always marvel at the scope of Julian’s restoration skill portfolio. I am also so excited to see the before and after views of the piece and this certainly didn’t disappoint. But this video reinforced the work ethic, attention to detail and desire to do the best for his client when he created the mash fork piece that had broken off. Absolute professionalism. His dad would be proud. I think I may just watch this a second time!

My favorite part of these is the cleaning. It’s so relaxing and satisfying to see the pieces get cleaned.

Cheers Julian 😉always my pleasure❤️your work❤️❤️❤️✌️🦋

Basswood is my favorite wood to carve. It is light weight, but the tight fibers and straight grain, means it takes & hold very fine detail. It is a joy to carve.

Man you are good. I Mean good. Fantastic skill sets. Nice job on the statue.

“Because I like to make more work for myself” 😆 I’m always amazed at Julian’s incredible attention to detail and variety of skill and commitment to perfection. This is why I love watching these videos.

I wish there had been some macro before/after photos to really illustrate the change in the metallic paints. Some rotating in front of lights would have been magical!

Im always amazed when you paint the details. I find myself more often than not thinking: thats so much paint! No way one wouldn't see the difference! But then you zoom out, and it just all makes sense. Just great work

The variety of restoration work makes these videos so interesting to watch. I like the historical background of why the piece is so important for his time spent on it. Nice job.

This was very cool, very unique….hope to see more unique restorations ❤❤❤

Totally engrossed in this procedure. Exceptional work!

"Don't ask me how I know" would be a great theme for a video imo

Cheers, for your content! It's helping to keep my sanity during the harshest period of my life and my country.

Very neat to see a different type of restoration that's not just a "painting on canvas."

The transition into the ad was so seamless I didn't even realize it'd happened

I love these videos watching them cheers me up when I'm depressed

I just started watching your videos & I can't get enough. You have amazed me with your knowledge & skills. I so appreciate your meticulous care in restoring art. Now, I cannot watch any other sloppy conservators. I have to say Julian, as a conservator, that you incorporate many talents that you have to employ in your work: physicist, chemist, carpenter, mathemetician, artist, creator, genius etc. to name a few. Also, you have a beautiful pleasant voice which you wonderfully use to narrate your processes & stories. I hope you continue to post videos. I am an artist & I so appreciate your work. Thank you!

What a GIFT you have. Beautiful!

During the spray paint, the over spray is clearly visible. You protected everything but your eyes. As a painter, retired, we use a full face mask. The composition of varnish can translate through your eyes and through the tears. Great restoration!

Oooof that little mention around 9:15 hit me right in the gut. Been there, but never on something like this!

Really good narration in this one. You seemed really in your element and comfortable!

Beautiful job with this one. It looked like it would be so so easy to overdue it here, make it look like a christmas ornament. You avoided that outcome very well. Kudos.

I would watch and listen to this man all day..amazing work.

Oh wow, this restoration is amazing. I love seeing your work on wood pieces with complex issues [the Salvatore Mundi, the Ave Maria icon, etc.], and watching you get better and more creative with each project is both a joy and incredibly motivating for my own endeavors. Also, I'm picking up some excellent woodworking tips for when I inevitably have to jerry-rig a prop or set piece in theatre, so thanks for that!

Another great conservation video! Have you tried small squares of either smooth surface blotter paper or even ph neutral artists drawing paper lightly dampened with distilled water to remove the excess residue surrounding your fill in material? You may find that it goes quicker than cotton swabs and will not pull out any material from your filled in areas. I have also used this method with lacquer thinner to remove the excess black lacquer on the very shallow numerals and engraving on freshly silver plated antique clock faces. It works extremely well and leaves the lacquer or any "fill in" material flush with the surface without pulling any material out. Try it. I know that you enjoy trying out new techniques. I have used this also on oil paintings & sometimes with distilled water with a bit of denatured alcohol or isopropyl added to the water. Stay Safe & please keep on making videos. They are so enjoyable to watch and are as flawlessly executed as your amazing work.

I love that you aren't just restoring paintings but other types of artworks. Also I don't know if you'll take it as a compliment but trust me it is : I keep your videos for bedtime cause they are perfect to fall asleep to. Your soothing voice, the slow pace, no music... it works everytime. Other art channels are often too dynamic and/or with obnoxious low-budget stock music, not ideal to fall asleep to. Yours has the perfect balance between interesting and relaxing.

Love seeing the occasional sculpture restoration. This turned out so well. Kudos for the mash rake remake. My mother has had to do small detail carving, and it is extremely difficult to make it look right. Great job👍

Cheers to you. Admire your work alot

Excellent work. I agree with the notion of keeping an aged appearance to this piece, but still "sprucing up" the areas of damage and brightening the colors to their original tones. Really, this is just first rate work. Bravo!

i love watching your video. I happily learn so much about thing that i would never see otherwise.

I love watching your videos. I give them the same level of attention as I would ‘Masterpiece Theater’. Your narration, the story of your work, has a beginning, middle, and a beautiful ending. It is always a treat when I watch.

Nice job on the moving transitions between original state and final state at the end of the video. Clean and effective, and probably a challenging bit of editing to pull off.

excellent wood carving and repair! looks really good. Cheers!

I don't skip your sponsorship sections because they are so beautifully done.

Your color matching abilities amaze me.

Hey Julian, have you heard about the recent floods in Northeast Australia? I've heard of entire art galleries, hundreds of paintings, sculptures, textile works, furniture, and other and artworks, being sent to conservators to deal with the water damage from the floods. Local artworks, local history, even travelling exhibitions on temporary display. Lots of items are simply beyond rescue, especially from Lismore Art Gallery in New South Wales.

I watch another channel that restores old tin/aluminum toys which sometimes have lead paint. He completely removes the paint jobs and reconstructs it after cleaning/repairing the parts. It's very interesting that a piece like this is similar to the tin toys but the execution is drastically different because of the difference in priorities. Rescue & Restore is the channel btw

Awesome man... restoration as art... returning a piece to its glory by maintaining a level of respectable patina is reverence to not only the carving and the painter but honors the contribution of time itself.. and the deepest level of such artistry is leaving the piece in such a way that your footprint will only be its continued longevity... You are truly a master above masters...

It's amazing what even just the cleaning did for the statue!

At 21:59, that’s not a medallion. That’s part of Arnold’s crozier. Arnold had one because he was a Benedictine abbott and because he was a bishop.

BRAVO, BRAVO, BRAVO, JULIAN!!!!!....As a wood & metal worker I found this show VERY educational & something I can perhaps apply to my home shop work ... ( I also saw some "Waldo's" in the background, HA, Thank You Julian!!!).....TM

I’m always astounded by the craftsmanship of your work. You perfectly ride the line of restoring the piece but keeping the integrity of the original piece and it’s age. Rather than not cleaning it and slathering on a new coat of paint over the whole thing, you respect what the original piece looked like. I love it!

This is really wonderful. After watching many of your videos, I believe you have the absolute smoothest segues to your sponsors!🌸

To me he looks like the Dutch Sinterklaas, the staff, the red robe, yet Sinterklaas has a white beard. It must be so nice to be able to restore old art, love to watch your work.

Yay! My Monday has just become a whole lot better! Please excuse me while I skip around a bit and do a little happy dance.

I think this is my favourite restoration so far. Cheers!

With the way the staff is shaped, I was pretty confident this was a sculpture of saint Nicholas, also known as Sinterklaas in the Netherlands. St. Nicholas has had quite a large following in and around the Netherlands for at least 500 years, and became the inspiration for Santa Claus. (Even the names sound similar) But the inscription is pretty damn sure!

the sculpture restorations are more interesting to me. i love these videos

This was my first time watching one of your restoration videos. I was completely mesmerized. Thank you

Wow this was really fun to watch. Loved watching the process of making the rake.

The thing that makes you such a great restorer of all things artistic, is the thing that makes you turn simple jobs difficult. Even though you know this it's still a pain.

As a traditional sculpture artist and woodcarver I would like to personally thank you for taking such care with this mans work. Cheers!

Beautiful carving and detail.

Great job! I wish we could see the clients reactions.

When I first saw this video in my recommended, I thought "Oh, it's not a painting, I don't want to watch that." It showed up a few times after that and I finally broke down and just clicked on it, thinking "Why not? I'll give it a chance and just see what it is." I think I actually like watching a 3D piece more than the paintings. Paintings are almost always the same thing, but this is refreshingly different. I loved watching him recreate the rake. Thanks for doing something new, Julian!

Just stumbled across your channel. I hope your client was as amazed as I was with your work ! The piece still shows its age, but in a very well kept way. You'd never know that it had ever been let out of its case. Thank you for sharing your art skill !

I love your restorations of paintings, but this one was extra exciting. Please do more videos of these as they come in.

This is so cool to watch! I’ve been wondering how someone would restore a painted figure as this is my artistic medium. I paint 75-28 mm figures.

Every time I hear an artist soeak of "Don't aske me how I know.." in any context I feel it 🤣 Don't ask me how I know

As always, your unique skills amaze me. What a wonderful restauration job to save a work of art. Beautiful job!!!

I love seeing you work on something different. It's not a canvas as you said, but painted nonetheless. People freak out over lead paint. It's real issue is it has a sweet taste that appeals to children. Otherwise, it's not that huge a deal. If it's flaking, deal with that. That conservation was amazing.

It looks absolutely fantastic. Well done!!

Entering the world of miniatures! Awesome.

Another wonderful restoration Julian. The medallion is called a crozier in the UK and it is the symbol of office for a bishop. 😊