Gizmortiser [Restoration] 

The fact that he doesn't do shady things like make a piece of equipment dirtier before working on it (looking at you, rug cleaning videos) or pull any other shenanigans is very underappreciated around here. He has legit skill and talent, he is legit creative. No clickbait titles or thumbnails. This guy is solid in my book.

Years on and you still do the best and most unusual restorations on utube.

Let's all appreciate the fact that there is no uncessary music, just a man renovating a tool. That's all you really need.

As a master locksmith, this is one of the coolest tools I have seen you restore. I have hand mortised my fair share of doors and when it comes to antique locking hardware, this would have been a game changer for some of my jobs. Great video! Love it!

I would have never guessed it was for making pockets in doors for knob/locks. That is amazing

Aside from the amazing results of what you do, it's amazing that someone sat down and began thinking "if I put this here and if it turns this here, then this will....." All without a computer, other than maybe a slide rule.

I have been following HTR for years (before I discovered Jimmy Diresta or Pask Makes). HTR never fails to deliver and is one of my top 3 channels on RU-vid. I also appreciate the humor you bring to your work. It's a lot of fun to watch and I love your work!

I appreciate the naturalness of the work scene no ridiculous music drowning out the sound of the tools or dramatic innovations, just the man his tools and his project.

As a former carpenter, I appreciate this tool.

The today price of a unit with all those castings would be outrageous! Great find and condition. Nice to find something like this that wasn't stored outside.

Wow! All new equipment! Sand blaster, solvent washer, painting booth/area, Evaporust, new shop facilities... You deserve it!

It amazes me to think what the old timers came up with without the benefit of modern design technology. Machines like this that are both relatively simple and mechanical complex - somebody envisioned this machine in their head, sat down at a drafting table and drew it out, then developed casting patterns, machined it on far simpler machine tools, etc. Absolutely amazing.

I just smile every time I see the HTR opening 🎉

Well Shucks! When I added on to my 1920s home I mortised all the doors by hand with spade bits and chisels. Took an extraordinarily long time. While it was "fun" and fulfilling, this machine would have been the tool my grand-carpenters would have reached for! I'm happy you restored and demonstrated this beauty!

The engineers that made this marvellous contraption would be very proud of you

I love these old mechanisms. They have all the stuff you learn about in engineering, cams, cam followers, acme screws, rack and pinion, all types of bearings including babbit metal, etc.

This is Fractal Vise level stuff You get the coolest, and the gizmoziest tools I ever seen on RU-vid. I can watch this this thing mortise doors for hours and hours. The thinking it had to take to make a tool like this in 1912 is mind boggling. Fun stuff. Thanks HTR

Very cool. You are unquestionably the world's greatest expert in Gizmology!

The engineering that went into this thingamabob is insane

I didn't know CRC made a ONE THOUSAND LITRE jug of Evapo-Rust. I have never known such biting, acerbic envy as this. HTR is living the greaseball's dream, folks. You can't even BUY this stuff in the big bin in Canada yet, so the CRC people must really like our man here. Congrats on one million subs, duder. Women want him; men want to be him; *rust fears him.*

Whenever I watch you restore an old piece of equipment, I’m amazed with the fact that someone thought and built this long before computers, and high tech machines to make the parts 🤔

This mechanism seemed to need far less restoration than the ones I've watched in the past, but watching you disassemble and reassemble it allowed me to see into the mind of the person that created it. It's truly amazing what is possible in the analog world with the right combination of gears and levers.

That is what I like about your show: none of the endless, want to be cute or showing off chitter chatter. You just get down to business and fix whatever you are working on. Nor do you try to see how many videos you can put out you choose quality over quantity. Keep up the good work.

Congrats on the new CRC parts washer! 👍👍

I appreciate that when you dismantle something, you just take it apart normally . You don't treat every screw, pin, gear and whatnot like its a priceless artifact made out of glass. To me, that just makes it slow and boring. Keep up the good work!

no bullshit, no making things dirtier just to clean them, just Legit restorations of absolute goddamn Contraptions. unequivocal best restoration channel out there.

Among the top RU-vid channels in history.

This restoration is so lovely. A purely mechanic device. I love those old machines. They where build to last and do their job. Not to have tons of senseless features and die within two years, to sell another one.

About damned time. I've been trying to figure out how to restore my mortiser for YEARS. At last, I have something to go on.

Sure glad you demonstrated the machine in action, at the end. For the lifec of me, I had no idea how it functioned, up to that point. Pretty amazing contraption, for its time.

I'm glad you demonstrated that tool, I had no idea what it was, or what it was used for. If you install doors, this would be a handy thing to have! Just imagine what your co-workers would think, if you used this at a construction site.

Love your trade, my friend!! Your videos are one of the few I click "like" before I watch it. It was great to see another project from Ohio. Much love and respect for your channel!!

Just goes to show that even way back then, there's a tool for that. Nice work Eric

So pleasant to see someone repairing cracks in cast iron correctly. Thank you.

That is such a spectacular example of ingenuity, over engineering, and madness lol. I love it.

What an incredible invention for the time!! This mortiser could be used not only for installing lock assemblies but would be great for just about any mortise joint especially for furniture.Great job on restoring it!! Thanks!!

All the engineering and time that went into this is amazing, to think, this is how they sharpened pencils 100 years ago, incredible.

Every other repair or restoration channel I have to play at 2x speed to watch, but never on this one. He has perfect pacing.

Ive always loved the 80/90's tool time intro reference. Cheers mate. Hope everyone is taking care.

I always look forward to your videos and the humor you inject into them! Interesting watching all the movements and gears on this. I guess routers took its place.

A hand cranked milling machine. This took one smart cookie to think of this and design it. Simply brilliant mechanical artwork. ❤ On a side not I love the shop upgrades especially the sandblasting apartment you've acquired. 😎👍

It never occurred to me to swing the bit like a pendulum. Brilliant!!

I ain't too gonna lie, I had to fast forward to the end to see what this contraption does. It's awesome. Growing up, we lived in a couple of houses with that style of door locks. Ok, it's time to go back to the beginning to watch the whole video. 😁

What a clever machine. You tackle the most complex restorations, on you tube. The production quality of this video is so much better than previous ones.

That intro kills me every time 😆

what a gem! a true historical piece. Love what you do and how you do it. cheers!

Beautiful work as always. Love these old complex mechanisms.

Glad there was a demo at the end, the sorcery of such woodworking things is beyond me. But it does look like it would be immensely satisfying to use, maybe not so much after being an underpaid and impoverished carpenter having to do it 100 times a day. Beats using something like a chisel or however they did it in the pre-Gizz days

I'm always impressed with your brazing

Expert level 9.8+ achieved. If you try to imagine the prototype development process and the decision-making mechanisms and control structures that must have been behind the development of such a device, for what quantities, for what profit target, for what price... It's absolutely crazy.

I have restored many beautiful old doors retrieved from the side of the road on “big garbage day” to re-use in our house, and I’ve always wondered why the mortises for the locksets have rounded ends. Mystery solved! Thank you HTR 🎉 and bravo once again on a beautiful job 🙌🏼✨

I was worried that the "Smart Washer" would wash away some of the gizmosity. Glad to see it is Gizmo safe. 😊 Great video thanks!

I often wonder how this and other contraptions (gizmo's ) you restore were received back in the day. I keep imagining some salesman demonstrating and touting these gizmo's as the latest time and labour saving device while perspective buyers looked on in amazement and wonder and possibly fear. Oh the stories. Cheers from Sussex, NB.

The sandblaster bit absolutely killed me!

Ein wunderschönes Exponate für das Museum 👍

💡While I enjoyed and approve heartily of this lovely restoration, I must venture to say that most hobbyists, carpenters, woodworkers, etc., would find this tool to be only 👉very occasionally👈 useful.

Incroyable, toujours aussi patient et talentueux. Et puis, cette petite dose d'humour qui ne gâte rien.

it seems the strangest gizmos always come to you. great like ever.

I had NO CLUE that this thing was until you started cutting wood..... and then I knew it was a wood cutting thing, that cut slots in wood.... but then when you said 'the door look would go here' I figure it all out!!! It was a DOOR LOCK HOLE SLOT CUTTER'!!!! Just what I ALWAYS wanted!!!! LOL no seriously, I really do love that you find these super complicated, ultra specialized pieces of single use, unheard of niche machines that are MESMERIZING to see in action - ESPECIALLY when they are nearly IMPOSSIBLE to figure out what they do.... And seeing all the different movements smoothly going through their actions, when then were just a few minutes ago (in TV time) single pieces being cleaned, shaped, filed, brazed, and twisted into their proper form... it really does make you appreciate the engineers and inventors that were able to put their thoughts onto paper that then become the individuals parts, completely separate from each other all throughout previous eternity, and then they are fitted and matched together, squeezed, turned, hammered, and greased all in a specific place and relation to one another until an exact moment that before which they could have never become more than the sum of each part together and finally become one new object. And in this case a Gizmortiser (if you say so lol) 0 I don't know if I was able to express exactly what I was thinking.... I think that tossing in part of the old adage "more than the sum of it's part" kind of threw it off..... I guess an easy way to say what I was thinking would be 'if you take away (almost)any single piece it's just a pile of parts. each part (or each object if you will) only fits together in one way, (yes I know that's not completely true, but you can't use ALL the parts and get another working object... it becomes junk again) and when it does then it is finally a whole new object.... ..okay I can feel I'm making people's brains hurt... oh w3ait... that just people smashing their screens in anger about how dumb I just went with this philosophical thought process about a 20th century door lock tool that is useless in today's world... BUTI HAD FUN!!! GREAT VIDEO!!! THANK YOU!

Machine is quite remarkable. Designed, built and manufactured without computers or CNC of any kind. Need more people like that today.

That's such a beautiful machine, one of your best ones!

Another awesome project 💪👍 Thank you!!👏

Otro equipo más, con una restauración PRÍSTINA, BELLA, detalladamente ejecutada. Siempre imitado, jamás igualado. Felicitaciones joven HTR 😊.

New workshop, new tools... congratulations!

I was literally just about to go to bed and you have to drop a new vid? I guess I'll go to bed later, it's only 7am here

Best sound editing to date. Fantastic.

Amazing resto as always! Glad to see CRC on board as a sponsor, hope they hang around a while. They make so much good stuff, Weld Aid, Sta Lube and of course EvapoRust. Not to mention all the great products made under the CRC brand like everyone's favorite open wound detector, Brakleen!

That is an incredible amount of complexity to avoid having to chop a mortise with a chisel!

I always enjoy your projects, you produce brilliantly edited videos of each rebuild/resto., but I’m often amazed at how overly complicated or unnecessarily engineered objects find their way to your workbench. Regardless: thank you, as always, for sharing.

I’m amazed at how intricate this thing is.way ahead of its time. Great restoration of course.you put some work into it.great video as always.just continue doing what your doing and on to the next project.👍👍👍😎😎😎

What are the odds that a guy named Hand Rescue (middle name Tool) would end up with a hand tool restoration channel? Life truly is wonderful

I love these old hand driven wood working machines they’re absolute genius. Great job as always.

Nice work!!! it amazes me how incredibly detailed that was.

Amazing job, absolutely beautiful

Ever-present cricket was a nice guest appearance. Very knowledgeable. You should invite him more often. 👍

Your intro rocks. Makes me nostalgic for the 90s 😂

Thank god you thudded your head against the sandblaster plexiglas (was worried for a minute when it wasn't you normal blaster). That has always brought a smile to my face in the older videos where you went all out ^^

I find it incredible how many parts went into making a tool such as this. I wonder how many were actually sold. Great to see you restoring this one.

That thing offers a plenitude of ways to crush the user's fingers. Great video, HTR!!

This is probably the coolest tool I've seen from your videos.

This is a very interesting and practical machine. Nicely done.

That thing was way more complicated than I would have thought. I’d have gotten it apart and probably would have stayed that way 😁

My jaw literally dropped when I saw the mechanism working, that's genius!

These old devices are fantastic! What amazing inventiveness humans have, and what a boundless capacity for overengineering! So nice to see them doing their thing again.

Outstanding!

Just noticed you went over the 1 million mark. Fully deserved. Congrats.

This works remarkably well for such a demented design...

What a cool ass tool!!! I was so confused as to what it did, but after the demonstration, which is what I love about this channel, I knew exactly what it was for! So freaking cool! Best Restoration Channel on RU-vid.

Honestly I was surprised at how functional it was before you started working on it. Normally the stuff you get is either completely seized up or broken in some manner that prevents it from moving, but this was pretty gizmunctional right at the start.

That is a seriously cool machine...I would have loved to see the previous iterations to see how they worked out the final product!

@HandToolRescue, absolutely loved the 80's/90's family sitcom intro! Genuinely genius my friend!😂😊

VERY COOL Tool! I bet it was the pride of some carpenter back in the day!

Fascinated that you did the Evapo-Rust before the parts cleaner - I would have thought you would want to get the dried grease and grot off first so the Evapo-Rust can get to the metal.

Lovely restoration of a very interesting old tool. I also noticed you have a few workshop upgrades.

Great Job repairing the GIZMORTISER HTR

All through this I was going: "Yeah, aha. okay I got it ", I thought I was on top of this. Then you actually used it and my bottom jaw dropped and an audible "wow" escaped my lips. The fact someone designed such a elegantly simple beautiful machine that does what it's supposed to amazes me. Thank you for an enlightening restoration.

The turntable scratch got me.

Your advice on step 69 is unclear. My gizmortizer doesn't work after following your instructional video. Now my wife left me and my dog has cancer. Thanks a lot HTR, you ruined my life!

Very cool piece of equipment... I almost expected to see some Japaning happen .. Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

Greatest intro ever of any RU-vidr! So stupid funny