I have seen some bad restorations on the tube but this couldn't under any circumstance be called a restoration. It is a complete disaster that destroyed a historic weapon. My 5 year old granddaughter could turn out something better. Get yourself another hobby, like 25 piece puzzels or snap together model cars and leave gun restoration to those who can. And the way you were tossing those parts in the floor really looked silly. I'm sure you saw some good restorer do that with unusable parts because I have, difference being they knew what they were doing. And these comments telling you what a great job this was either were family and friends or obviously don't know anything about restoring. Stuff like this just gets under my skin.
Thank you for a valuable lesson in how not to restore a worn rifle. I have doubts that this was made in Europe nor the Kabul arms factory. The chequering on the receiver is pure Kyhber bazaar copy work. Have a professional check it before you consider firing it. And stop using power tools!
a real shame that you ruined everything, painting the rifle as if it were a plastic toy, adding that absurd piece of wood in place of the butt plate, and giving that horrible coat of polish to the stock, which was visibly not the original one, from replace with one available on the market, or to be redone. You seemed to have the skills... but you don't, and it shows.
I have seen worse restorations, but I cannot remember when! Sorry. Why fill the holes in the stock but leave one un smoothed, oh and I don't thing Martini Henry's ever had raised cheek pieces on their stocks? Why hot blue the parts EXCEPT for the main receiver which was painted? Finally, when rubbing down the wooden stock do not leave it attached to the rifle as thie dust will invariably find it's way to where you don't want it!!!
You can reblue using chocolate milk? Good to know..... Wow this was incredibly hard to watch, sooo much wrong. I was yelling at my computer screen the whole time.
Otra cosa no debiste limar nada bastaba un lijado leve y pulir además la eletrolucis ni sabes aserla correctamente se usa asido amuriatico no agua o agra tesis para mejores resultados te lo diste algen que restaura armas antiguas
A nice job on a rifle which has already been butchered and as such as little, if no, value. We have the same here in France with the Gras 1874. When it was phased out, a lot were sold on the civilian market and modified for hunting? They were much appreciated as it was a very strong and reliable weapon. But if you compare a "sporterized" Gras with a military one, the prize goes from one to four, at least.
Little known fact, the term "horsepower" originally referred to the PSI a team of two horses could generate for the early air compressors of the Henry and Sons Firearm Spray Paint Factories.
If you're doing a precision job don't throw fasteners and small components on the floor, very unprofessional of you, I downvoted and shut this down well before the end. Try harder next time...
I have to admit. I restore a lot of my antiques according to how I like it but man, that one's right off the rails. Oh well, it was a cheap copy to start with whatever.
That guy has disrespected the rifle, the British army and history. Should never be allowed to hold such an important part of history. Do not subscribe to this guy
How not to restore anything,try watching a few vids on people that actually know what they’re doing,buy some correct tools,nobody uses nails as pin punches,
Posi screws for that knock up butt plate...hmm. Posi screws were not around back in those days. Plus you chucking the bits around at the beginning said to me, you didnt give a f@ck for this weapon, and unfortunatley at the end it shows.
Confieso que no me gustó el tratamiento y acabado de la madera, le dio esa mano brillante y para mí, le restó valor al arma. Lo siento, pero creí correcto decirlo. En cuanto al resto está bien. Saludos.
Sorry but that was not a good gun restoration, stock was not refinished properly and the finish was sloppy. Spray painting gun parts is not a good idea.
It was pretty awful to begin with and it's not much better now. I wouldn't dare fire it unless it was secured to a bench and I had a very, very long piece of string to to pull the trigger!
What a bloody mess. It wasn't worth the effort in the first place but it looks worse after than it did before.....Even the Afghans could have done a better job. The best thing you could do would be to get a job in a scrapyard because that is what you have turned this into, a piece of scrap.
This video was fine until you took the angle grinder too the gun you fumbled so bad in this I don’t care how beat up you got this gun you went full bubba and destroyed a peice of history for views and I think you did it on purpose
You seem to have talent but no knowledge of firearms. This seemed less like a firearm restoration and more like an automotive paint job with bad body work. I believe if you studied firearms more and proper restoration, got some tools right for the task, you could do good work.
