Making a Bayonet Catch - Mannlicher 95 

Severely under rated channel for the quality of content being made. One small time gun channel to another, subbed.

Excellent stuff. Professional work.

Well done, sir!

Hey ! You've been recently uploading such high quality content. I really want to say how I appreciate your content. It reminds me a lot of mark novak. Thanks for it !!

Solid video and fabrication work

Your videos are becoming a favorite of mine.Nice job!

I just finished restoring my m1888 bayonet and there’s just something about seeing it actually lock into the lug that’s just 💪🏽

Amazing work! I had the same problem with the fitting of the bayonet.

Incredible work, highly addictive contents (old military rifles) : you have good taste and high skills. I don't understand why RU-vid didn't suggest me your channel earlier despite my interest for the Steyr Mannlicher rifles.

Great video, thanks for uploading. Lots of bayonets are missing the catch and it's nice to see someone fix one! Also, the close up footage at 3:45 is beautiful.

You got quite a deal on that bayonet, even without the catch! Great video! I wish I had a lathe, to make doing my projects a little easier. You have some great fab skills!

Nice Job! For matching the color, you could try using mustard, or first a hot vinegar bath to create a base color, than some rub with a fine scotch brite, and then the mustard, to create some variation in color. I would try plain mustard first. You just put it on in some inconsistent patches, leave it there for 20-30 minutes, than wipe it off. Repeat until you are satisfied with the outcome. When done, rub some oil on it, to stop the rusting process. If you dont like the outcome, you can remove the colorisation with any type of rust remover, or even better, with electrolysis, without losing any material. Allso to make it even more authentic looking, you can first lightly beat the surface up a little bit, with a ball peen hammer, or rust it with some ferric acid, to treat the suspiciously perfect surfaces, and than give it a color with mustard and co. Instead of ferric acid you can allso use a longer dip in sodium peroxide, witch is basicly what drain cleaners are, or some ~20-30% of sulfuric acid, whitch is aka 50% battery acid solution, to etch the surface. Or hit it with a sandblaster lightly... If you use ferric acid, than give it a backing soda bath afterwards, and put it in some disel oil, or petroleum, to neutralize it, and do it outside, not in your workshop, because it will vaporize, and rust everything (ask me how i know it...). Allso mine has two grooves on the opposite sides on the button, to help with the tighty-loosey of the button. Btw this is a hungarian made M95. Produced in the FEG factory.

Great work. I wonder what it would look like if you rust blued it and then attacked it with vinegar for short periods o time to eat the bluing away and try to match the worn look. No clue how that would actually look but the good thing is you can always just buff it back to being in the white if you didn't like how it turned out. Or maybe the weird color that evaporust leaves when you dip it for long periods.

V interesting,and surprisingly complex,you should go into business,there's a market for replacement parts