Those of us from the USA envy Europeans and eastern countries having the ability to use a metal detector and finding MG42’s , PPSH SMG’s etc right in the ground. I’m sure so savvy people have used this method on some good finds and have them stored away for a “rainy” day. Haha 😆
We also find land mines, bombs and grenades which can go off as soon as your shovel goes near them, and it’s not like we can actually use them when we find them.
Thanks for posting this. My father's S&W 22 revolver he carried as a personal gun in the Marine Air Corp during WWII in the Pacific looked much like this after the storage unit it was in was flooded and the owners of the place did not let me know. I've serviced revolvers before, but thought this might be gone. At least with what you did here, I can restore it as a keepsake even if I never fire it again. Again, many thanks.
Wow. you have certainly outdone me. I bought an old broken break top revolver for 130, but after stripping it, it was only missing one spring. You did a lot more work, and I loved watching it.
Another amazing video and restoration, thank you! What surprised me the most, I think, was the complexity of a relatively "simple" gun. Who'd have thought there was so much in it?
Since I am a gunsmith, and have a personal love for wheel guns, I really appreciate this video. Great work. Looks like the cylinder lock-up is nice and tight. How someone could let a firearm fall into such a sad state of disrepair is beyond me.
@@RJ-zm3tr I thought the exact same thing, especially with the ease in which the outer layer of rust was removed. The pitting in the rifling and on the frame did not match the extreme level of rust. It's just clickbait.
Congratulations, for the excelent job. My father had an ASTRA, model Cadix 38 Spc. as personal protection gun, for decades. He got it at 60s. This revolver was his everyday concealed weapon.
I had a similar experience restoring a 1911 once. Me and my wife spent the better part of a day in a bus station in Manila. I noticed a security guard with a rusty old gun. I love rusty old guns. I found out it was a family treasure from the war but wasn’t reliable. So as an amateur gunsmith I offered my help. After many hours of work waiting for our bus and working on the fly it was restored to it’s former glory. The look on his face when he test fired it was priceless. I got our tickets half price HAHAHA👍👍👍
First gun I ever loaded and shot. My grandfather was a customs agent and he carried this back in the day until the end of his career where they were issued Glocks. Either way, this was awesome to watch regardless but it also took me back to some good times. Thanks for the upload.
Great job. A real pleasure to watch. I was hoping for a chrome finish and maybe a pearl handle just to make the difference even more extreme but wow. Incredibly skillful gunsmith.
In spanish: Excelente trabajo de restauracion anuevo y aun mejor haz pulido, las rebabas de fabricacion de la fabrica, haz niquelado, mejorado todo!!! Excelente!! Felicitaciones de Argentina.
Great restoration. I did something similar and instead of blueing, I used flat black wood stove paint. Don't make faces guys. Guns have been painted for MANY years. For an old gun, especially one with some rough surfaces, a very durable paint such as engine block or wood stove, comes out looking pretty good and can fill in some of the pitting.
Simply incredible that you are able to bring these things back to life or in some cases improving it. You’ve earned every subscription you have Sir, and mine too today. I have only seen a few of the precision processes, but the homemade electrolysis was my favorite. Amazing
This would've been a perfect candidate for some cerakote or duracoat!! Although your method was really awesome too, I love the patina look to it. This really makes me want to find a worn out revolver to restore!
Plum brown would have been anachronistic but given the level of pitting I think it would have looked good. Awesome job on this revolver. Truly amazing.
@@Daddy53751 I imeadately conceed that Cerakote is mostest bestest hard & durable finish . Dura Coat is very durable , but CeraKote even more . But that said , there are still reasons to prefer Dura Coat , at least some of the time . Cerakote has a good selection of color , Dura has huge selection . Dura works better for intricate multi color design . ( Not my thing , but some people do .) But in this instance , Dura Coat will better fill in pits , while the physically thiner CeraKote will exactly conform to the host , pits and all .
Spanish Guns factories always made copies of America guns. That's because the spanish Copyright laws rules that to uphold your blueprints in Spain you should have factories in the country, and not every American gunmaker was interested in having factories there.
Really enjoyed this video! Nice that it had no talking, just explanatory captions when needed. I am an amateur smith myself and enjoy bringing old or damaged guns back to life. Did an old S&W revolver for a friend recently that also had excessive pitting, so I just polished what I could without removing serial numbers, etc, then cold blued it. Looked 90% better than before! Great job…subscribed! Wish you had a nice old Colt or S&W to do but they don’t come along in that kinda shape often, or are too expensive to start with.
Here in UK I restore mostly old air rifles and pistols, striking up a rusty one is hard work, it's nice to sit back for a change, excellent work, love snub nosed revolvers
I wish there were more videos like this on RU-vid I feel like it’s a good thing to pull in views and not a lot of people are doing it like seriously hardly anyone is doing this
I love you’re work. I do restoration’s on vintage guitars so I know the effort involved in your craft. The guys that give their opinions on how you ‘should have’ done things is hilarious. Where are their videos?
I cringed at the side plate removal . Traditional rust blueing was a thing of beauty on 19th century arms . And an interesting process to document for its own sake. But for a gun with modern steels , in that starting condition , professional grade Cold Blueing would give more even coloring , and a more durable finish . Yes , I've done it to zero finish remaining duty revolvers , but it was before the era of the internet , or affordable digtal cameras .
If you're like so many people, not only does the loss of patience come with age, but so many of us have had our brains rewired by computers and the internet. I have some patience remaining, but focus and concentration are long gone.
Excellent restoration! The chemical bluing turned out very well, I'm glad you did that instead of the wipe-on bluing that is actually an oxidized copper that does nothing to protect the metal. You clearly have talent for restoring firearms and I can't wait to see what you do next!
Well, you just got my subscription. However, I missed the entry of head-banging heavy metal, eye-popping optics and then a guy that goes on for ten minutes before coming to task.
The Cadix line of pistols are (fairly good) S&W clones built by Spanish company Astra between 1958 and 1973. good work resurrecting this piece of history
I read that when cleaning the muzzle it's good to follow the direction of the bullet (from inside to outside) and only go in that direction (pass the entire brush through the barrel, handle and everything). Thank you for this very satisfying video :)
Heard that same thing several time when I was a small boy.In 1958 while in the Army I asked our company warrant officer that ran small arms repair if that were true.He said that he did not think so and he had never seen anything in writing that said to do it that way,Years later I asked another small arms expert the same question,got the same answer.Both those men were experts in weapons up to about 155 caliber some I think that might be an urban legend.
@@wylieisnothere5062 It's kinda funny you said something like that. We have more guns than people in America. He might want to make them endangered but it ain't gonna happen.
I have got an Old Shotgun that was Damaged in a friends House fire he gave it too me said do whatever with it the gun is Badly Damaged is it possible to have it restored it can't shoot i would like to have it restored its a Pump Shotgun a Remington Model 10
@@jared.p240 alight i just need to know what chemicals and mixtures to use so i can clean it off and then have a specialist take it part and replace the damaged parts because i have no clue how to do that
That’s a very nice restoration job. The interesting thing will be to see how easily the ammo will load into the cylinders and how easy the fired cases will eject for the cylinder.
@@MrSterling314: Judging by what the rifling looked like, I personally would have bored and re-sleeved the barrel. Hone and polish is a good idea, just don't over do and make a sloppy fit.
@@d.s.steele3100 yup. Or just rebarrel it. But yeah don't wanna make those chambers oversized lol. Also the fact that he did zero polishing or any attempt to remove pitting at all annoys me. How can you call this a 'restoration' when all you did was reblue it lol. But whatever, it makes a popular video I guess lol.
@@MrSterling314: I think he might have been going for a patina look. If so a new barrel (if one can be found) would look out of place. That is the reason I suggested a re-sleeve. That way it could be fired safely, but keep as many original parts as possible.
Great job.Reminded me that a couple I knew found a tommy gun one time.In 1964 we were in the first armored divison, we were in the Mojave desert near Cadiz CA.One day a couple friends of mine went exploring found a tommy gun.lying on it's side . Wind and sand had practically destroyed the wooden stock,gun was pretty well sand blasted and very rusty.Funny thing though,a tiny bit of the wooden stock yhat had been face down still had the letters HQ93 visible on what was left of the stock.The gun was turned over to the 1st AD musem.Story came back to us that the gun had been reported lost when the 1st AD was training in the same area during WW2.If that were true the gun woould have been lying there for over twenty years.Gun wound up in the 1st AD musem.
