Shotgun restoration

Good video, don't like the inserts but everyone's a critic. Certainly brought the gun back from the brink. i was typing as you were guns and agree.
 
Sweet jesus in the garden that's some fine show of skill and mechanical understanding,the classic drop at toe is impressive to say the least .....my biggest admiration goes to the fact that he still has all fingers,A+ for effort though
 
Yikes!! You have to give him credit for bringing it back into service, but no more than that. His metal refinishing methods are crude. His wood refinishing was a token gesture and the brass accents look like crap. There was little or no attention to detail. That was an awful lot of work to turn a worthless gun into one worth $100. Admittedly, based on the time commitment alone, refinishing guns is no way to make money. But, done with a little skill and a lot of care and attention, refinished guns can be a source of pride for decades to come.

Not only would I not be proud of the result of this work, I'd be ashamed to admit I had anything to do with it. Certainly wouldn't publish my work on the internet (I noticed that his face doesn't appear anywhere in the video).
 
I would be speechless except that I may have seen some of his work before. Or his brother's, and far too often. On the one hand you can say that he put the old girl back into service so in that he was successful. Restoration? Not on your life, this is a resuscitation of the near dead and a great demonstration of the wrong way to do most of the tasks. The workmanship is crude at best but I will admit that it now looks better than it did to start with and I guess you learn by doing, buttttttt. And he never got his hands dirty.
 
What is worse is he has over a million subscribers ..... so he's making a living just from bad videos.
 
jimmyjazz said:
What is worse is he has over a million subscribers ..... so he's making a living just from bad videos.
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He is encouraging everyone else to destroy what is left of their guns value.I saw a Youtube video of someone trying to restore an old Double and I had to turn it off because he took a saw to his walnut stock to make it a one handed special.he made a 200 dollar shotgun into a 50 dollar one.he had thousands of subscribers too.
 
Not a man who thinks much of wood and who clearly totally hates checkering, and besides that he obviously he has fairly unique ideas about beauty, all of them involving brass. It's comforting to think that there aren't may who would want to undertake all that brass work, supposing they even thought it was nice in the first place, and they would leave the stock be.
 
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