My Daddy was a man of this kind of thing, in a way. He loved odd tinkerings, he loved creating his own blueprints and resurfacing/redoing the fabric on all different kinds of things. He was a welder and an upholsterer, a carpenter and everything else. He chewed my tail for using his fabric scissors to cut paper as a kid once and I would never do it again 😂 after learning all the things I know now after he left this old world, I realized why he was so mad about that after I had my own kids and they dulled my best fabric shears, that were once my old man's, the very ones I dulled myself as a kid. It was an easy fix, but I had to take longer to finish recovering my chairs 😂
What a great story... But that's the way it is everywhere, I felt the same way at home and at my grandpa's from time to time. When I was a child, I didn't understand what the big ones wanted from me, but with every year that I get older and I see my children, I understand more...
I like how this person shows off everything that’s going on so well they even focus on a mechanical pencil whenever they push the tip out. And then immediately snap it.
Another SUPER good video! I absolutely love watching you work. Also, your editing is especially good in this one… showing us everything we want to see and skipping some of the more routine things. Please keep posting! I promise I’ll keep watching
Hey, Super Nice!!! I have seen other restorers restore this exact kind of binos...but they only glued the leather on and didn't make a strap for it like you did!! VERY GOOD JOB Sir! Wow!
Great restoration, have you thought about getting brass wire brushes. Will not score the brass on the object you are restoring. If you do, make sure they are brass and not brass coloured pawned off as brass.
Geoff Quickfall I already like this growing community - you are right! I did a little research and will implement your input for the next projects - thank you
@@ForgottenShineRestoration It also distressed me to see you using a steel screwdriver to lever apart brass parts. I realise you are about to clean everything up with files, sandpaper etc but in general it's not good policy, the hard tool leaves marks. Rather look for plastic picks or "spudgers" in the computer tool section of your favourite website. Cheap and effective, and if anything breaks it's the plastic tool rather than the thing you're working on.
I always watch these videos just before going to sleep. They're so relaxing and informative at the same time. Greetings from Germany :) Keep up the good work.
anthony c phillips thank you! to be honest yes. I think to restore lenses is only possible with a lot of know how of an optician, or you let it be done - but that costs a lot of money, money that i don't have and also didn't want to and couldn't spend for an especially optical restoration - and also my wife doesn't play along either, a lot of time and money goes in to this hobby (youtube and restoration)
Old grandfather I appreciate your compliment very much. I think it is or better was kind of a mixture of the glue, leftovers of the leather and also patina
It quite clearly was skin glue. Patina, Verdigris, Copper Oxide, whichever term you use adheres to the base metal. It does not behave in a manner that can be peeled away. Also I even question if this was the original state of the binoculars, it looks like it was accelerated aging. Which does not detract from the restoration but maybe should be notated.
I wouldn't use steel on brass if you are trying to preserve the metal. They make softer copper wheels and brushes that would take off the old glue and dirt and polish up the metal better.
Una restauración hecha por un aficionado que cuenta con muy pocos elementos...... Tiene el mérito de ser realizada aún sin conocer el tema en profundidad y sólo contar con palos y piedras.....
You should put descriptions of what things are or what they do. You had an arrow ppint to the patina, but didn't explain what it was. New viewers or young people would be frustrated at having to pause the video and having to Google what it is. There was another video where you has a knife sit in a solution all night but didn't explain what the solution did or why it was important
Amazing how many parts it has! How long did this take you to do? I also have a pair of binoculars that my grandfather used in WW2 that I'd love to have redone.. looks very similar to yours...
Wirklich tolles Ergebnis, super Arbeit! (Übrigens, als jemand, der das selber immer falsch sagt, Zirkel ist (aus welchem Grund auch immer) im Englischen "compass".)
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