Gun Restoration, 1841 British Officers Musket with sword 

The best restoration videos feature the restorer wearing black gloves. I can see why this is a great restoration just by the color of your gloves. A great job and thanks for the posting.

I do that agree with some. Restoring an old firearm to whatever level suits you is best. It will not appeal to some, however, it appeals to you. The restorer that's the important thing.😊

Thank you Brandon, for showing the world all the talent you have achieved on restorations of these lost in time musket rifles. It’s astonishing to watch the transformation of lost in time, to the current time. You make the restoration of 181 years look simple…obviously it is not! Your the best, Brandon. I love watching these transformations. Thank you for the video. Cheers buddy!!!!

Looks great, people will hate the shiny wood, but it’s yours to do as you please. 😊 Restoring this same musket was what got me into fire arms, I have a lot to learn but always enjoy the process! Cheers 🍻

Beautiful work.

I saw the notification pop up and I yelled YES!!! My wife thought I won the lottery because I was so excited for this episode to come out!!! Great Job, I know this took a while to make. Appreciate the hard work you put into these.

Awesome! Echo from the era of the old empire days 🇬🇧

Lovely restoration especially with the matching sword bayonet. I must admit I would have gone for a less glossy finish on the woodwork, something nearer issued state would be nice but that is a personal choice! Thanks for posting.

well and truly ruined , surprised you didnt chrome the barrel .

Nice to see someone using the correct size of screwdriver for the screws they are working. Thank you for an excellent restoration !

Very delicate work needed on such a very fragile old weapon. Great job. Gorgeous!!!

Nothing devalues antiques faster than chipping those screw slots.

Beautiful restoration I'm so impressed great job guys

Great job a pleasure to see you working on the firearm

Amazed at the complexity of a musket. I thought it was just an oversized cap gun. Nice job!

Most exceptional repairs

Scuff the shiny finish with #0000 steel wool. Great job!

Beautiful job! It looks amazing.

Espetacular! !!!! Restauração maravilhosa! Parabéns pelo trabalho e dedicação! 😊👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Muito talentoso. Ficou muito bonito.

Sure, others would have done it differently but it's still a beautiful piece of art with form and function. Only thing I would have changed would be a not so glossy stock.

Nostalgic. I was using the very same gun of my uncle in my teenage, 1970-76.

Simply AWESOME!!!💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

You should consider using boiled linseed oil for the wood finish considering these period of surplus weapons at that time were finished with it, instead of shiny coatings

Magnificent restoration again !

Beautiful Job on this Musket!

Oh this is one piece I would love to have seen you try and fire

You took an antique, old gun, and made it look like new. Gone is the history of this gun. There are companies that make replicas of these guns so that they look like they came off the factory floor. I say, for what it is worth, just clean up the crud but keep the authenticity of the gun.

Great restoration!

Beautiful and well done

Very cool project! You keep making gun resto videos and I'll keep watching them. It's so neat to watch the process.

Job first class

Really good rifle restoration 👍👍100%👍👍

A good trick for a stuck screw is put Kroil on it and heat it with a heat gun and using ur screwdriver with a pair of vice grips on it for additional torque.

Screw what people say. Its yours, you own it. You do what you please with it. Just for the haters, im getting ready to use a wire wheel on a winchester 1894. Found in the backseat of a 1940s buick. Pretty rough condition but hey, my wire wheel will take care of it. Great video by the way.

W O W !! BEAUTIFUL !🙂👍❤

So jealous of that gunsmiths bits set. im still just using ordinary ones. Ive had ok luck with them. but i have quite a few different sizes. the main thing normal sets seem to be missing are really wide but thin flat heads... oh and that sand blaster. i wouldve had to brush all of those by hand!

Great job, any British officer would be proud to carry those fine examples of craftsmanship onto a battle field

Amazing Job ,Looks Awesome

Yours was in much better shape than the one I got. Mine had a cracked stock and was missing the nose cap as well as the box lid. But she cleaned up nice and would be shootable if I could find a new stock. My lock looked the same as well. Covered in some sort of grease and was basically brand new once the grease was removed.

Excellent job

Good Job! Kindly Ignore The Chatter Here With Reference To your Craft and Techniques. You did a Great service in restoring This Fine FireArm.

That’s great you have done a fantastic job on the flint lock gun.

Interesting to see how others more advanced than I go about restoring/refurbishing old guns. Essentially, it looks new, like a piece in a museum, a high-end museum. I had a lot of thoughts watching this at various stages. At first, I thought the metal polishing was going a bit too far, but then I reflected on the pride of the British military from years past, and this being an officer’s musket, I’d be surprised if it didn’t originally have a polished brass. I liked the impact of the fine glass blasting on the steel/iron parts though. Cleaned those up to new and smoothed them out. To me, that’s a much better technique than steel wool, which tends to leave little bits of metal behind, that, especially on a muzzleloader, will later rust and stain. Also left a great looking finish. The only thing I’d suggest or recommend is the one thing I’ve learned from a few “old-timers,” and that is the importance of a few applications of boiled linseed oil to anything that isn’t going to see tung oil. Specifically, to the wood surrounding the lock, the breach plug, and the barrel channel, as well as under the patch box cover and buttplate. That wood is 180 years old, and old wood that old will be very dry and brittle/crumbly. From what I understand, boiled linseed oil seeps into the dry pores of wood, or the space that has opened between fibers, and then polymerizes in the space, strengthening the wood and making it more resistant to cracking under impact. This is especially important if a weapon is going to be fired, but is good for the wood anyway. Thanks for this and your other videos, it gives me inspiration and education!

Very cool piece, well done. 👍

Nice

Excellent work,,, as always

I know it took a long time to get a video out but I got it done. This was a hard restoration. Very big firearm. Next two are handguns

Love your restoration video's awesome work Bro's

Great job

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It is not grease that you are seeing about four and a half minutes into the video. It is actually cosmoline. It is put on guns to protect them from damage when put in storage. Most of the cosmoline has dried up and left behind dirt stuck to the gun.

When the random orbital sander hit the stock I cringed And you are right it's your gun you can ruin it if you want 😬✌️

Beau travail

You are a fine, talented gunsmith. It appeared the screws and other parts apart came untightened with ease. Did you have to prep them with a WD-40 or a lock break before you unscrewed them ? Totally wonderful restoration. To bring back the chrome luster and blue , and awesome glory of the wood of an almost 200 year old rifled musket was inspiring. You did honor to the original maker and gunsmith . Thank you.

Awesome 😎

Amazing job , very nice

Beautiful musket. Love the fact that it has the matching bayonet

woow that one turnd out awesome great job love it broz

We called it #capdar😃

Beautiful job. Well done. 👌🍺

simple bautiful worked very hapy i love guns antiques

Great work

A sidenote from Germany . When there was US - Independence War, british troops had no units with rifles, only smoothbore muskets. To counter US riflemen , British Gouvernement hired german troops including Jäger units, formed first of hunters and forrest officials. Their sidearm had been traditional Hirschfänger, for military use with longer blades. First riifles and swordbayonnets for real british troops looked rather german. Also this rifle still has a german ,touch'. It is the trigger guard, which tries to be a kind of pistol grip. Last riflemodel especially for german Jäger units ( Jägerbüchse M71) had only a ,finger hook' at trigger guard. Also the swordbayonnet looks rather similar to german military Hirschfänger. Civilian versions with shorter blades are today still sometimes used by civilian huntsmen, but only for huntsmens ceremonies.

Everybody is a critic. I think it looks nice. I would like to have seen it test fired.

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Great work and fascinating video! There is an interesting dilemma behind restoration, to retain historical credibility but to still unwind the decay and neglect of 180 years. Certainly the brass and steel parts would have been polished to a high gloss by troops in 1840. But the high gloss woodwork looks wrong. What a beast of a gun! Especially when you think that adult males were considerably smaller than today - look at the old uniforms in museums, some would hardly fit a 12yr-old today.

So good condition.

Very nice restoration. Didn't think they had cap lock back in 1841. Would have thought it to be a flint lock. Stock is too shiny for the period musket. I would have used Tru OIl and buffed with steel wool. The true test is if it will fire a musket ball. W Rusty Lane K9KPOW in eastern Tennessee

I wouldn’t have sanded the stock to keep the history on it but still cool

Beautiful weapon would have really loved to see you fire it 😢

Beautiful restoration. The only thing that bothers me is the 'shiny' finish of the stock. It looks like a used car where the tire sidewalls have been spruced up with silicone spray. But, if that's how it was in the original ... that's OK.

My 1837 Brunswick rifle condition looked about like your 1841 Brunswick. It came with a new patch box that i fitted. The bayo didn't come close to fitting so i fitted it also, i had to open up the T slot inside the grip. Everything cleaned up great retaining all orig finish on wood & metal (unlike yours) untill i got to the breech threads, they were totally rusted out beond use. fortunatly a good friend & great gunsmith repaired the threads for free. Now all is well😊

Seen this same model rifle and sword/ bayonet restored on DR. Restoration's channel. This one looks in better condition than his was.

This gun 1841 mustet was made at the last tail of first industrial revolution, their parts must be interchange able, for me it is very surprising how they make the small hooks under the barrel for cutterpins? Welding was not invented must be they fix the hooks withbarrel by hot forging.

Impressive work!! Amazing restorations!

My mind wondering if all that grease was animal fat/lard when it was first put together and taken care of back then. This is so cool :)

I was expecting a firing session!!

Nice!

Should have gone ahead and rechambered it into 300 Win Mag.

Why did you feel the need to polish the metal pieces to mirror shine or stain the wood a different color? A 180-old weapon has well earned its patina, and the color the original wood did have was fine - no need to fake a walnut tone. Lots of skill used to turn an antique into a wallhanger.

Lindo trabalho parabéns

Good job!!🍻🍻👍👍

I think that it should have a good cleaning and put back together. Lost all it's value now. Sometimes less is more.

Very nice restoration of this old nepalese rifle from IMA ;) next project looks like an Ethan Allen Pepperbox...

Quedo una obra de Arte 😊👌

Все ништяк,но трещину на прикладе нужно было заделать.и этот блеск,все испоганил.А в основном четко.

You did a superb job on the gun Brandon! What a great restoration project! I can’t wait to see your next restoration!! Take care man and thanks!

I've done a couple of these IMA guns, they can come out nice. They weren't found in a factory though, it was an old mansion that the Nepalese government had used as an arsenal. They were stored in really bad conditions and a lot of the brass parts were stolen over time which is why your original patch box cover and butt plate were gone.... There is a guy who has been recording all of the trigger guard markings for a data base and can translate them for you if you're interested in knowing what unit your musket was issued to. The last one I worked on was a P-53 that had so much grease soaked into the stock I spent hours with a hot air gun bringing it out.

Nice Job 😀🤙

Very nice

That was a fantastic job! I'm super excited for the pepperbox video. Where did you get that one by the way? I have wanted to get an old beat-up pepperbox to restore as well.

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Wow looks beautiful! I think u shouldve at least put linseed oil on the wood in the patchbox and under the barrel tho.

well done

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Nice work and video! You guys have come a long way from your earlier posts. My personal preference would be a satin or matte finish, but that's just me. Overall, you did a fantastic job.